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Topic: Would you pay to support Nintendo Life?

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antdickens

Hello everyone,

I'm sure you're all very aware that it costs a significant amount of money to run a website like Nintendo Life that gets millions of visits per month, that's why we are displaying multiple advertising banners on every page to earn our income and pay for everything.

We're aware that a number of people use software for their browsers that automatically block and remove those banners, effectively meaning we never earn any revenue from their visits to the website. We totally understand that adverts can sometimes be obtrusive and annoying - especially when they're provided by third party systems - that's why we've never allowed things like pop-overs, pop-unders or between pages adverts. We do try to keep things reasonable.

However, we've had more and more people say to us things like "I love the site, but I use adblock - I'm sorry, I wish I could support you another way" that's why we'd like to ask if you, as a user of Nintendo Life, would even consider a paid-for supporter programme?

For example, if you paid to become a 'Nintendo Life Supporter', you could have the option to disable ads along with early access to help us test and vote for new features of the website, dedicated Supporter forum and so on. You'd also have a special icon/emblem next to your name/avatar to show everyone else that you're a supporter of what we do. It's not dissimilar from the YouTube Tips Jar or Patreon.

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We'd want to keep things as cheap as possible, ideally for less than the price of a coffee per month, does that sound fair? We know everyone has different levels of available income and therefore if you would be willing, how much?

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Don't get us wrong, we're keen to always keep the site free and the supporter programme like this would be completely optional - it's perhaps just an alternative to traditional adverts that people are willing to pay for.

Thoughts?

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Blast

The pricing means alot....

I own a Wii U and 3DS. I also own a PS4!

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Inkling

Depending on price, sure! I'd love to support NintendoLife! Maybe if you had a yearly subscription or had one-off donations instead, that'd be great!

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CanisWolfred

Quite frankly, no. I use ad-block because I'm afraid of viruses, and on some sites the ads make it more difficult to use. Filter your ads more, and I'd be willing to add you as exceptions like I've done with other trustworthy sites that use their ad space effectively and non-intrusively. I'm not going to pay to get rid of ads (excluding video sites), advertising isn't a problem in and of itself, and excluding that stupid side space that off-centers the website (which is still annoying, btw. It's been well over a year, and I still notice it pretty frequently), this site has been pretty good about managing the ad space in terms of layout (at least from what I've noticed when I view the site on my tablet). Just make sure no more intrusive/exploitive ads get through, and we'll be cool.

And if you really feel you need the money, I recommend a donation button and the occasional fundraiser.

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Ryu_Niiyama

No I use ad-block anyway because I hate intrusive ads. I think if there was a one time fee to disable ads im here enough to want to do that ....especially on my phone.

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WiiWareWave

If it's for special perks like no ads then that's okay, but to block access or flat-out deny membership to people who quite frankly can't afford a membership for everything you'll be biting off your own nose to spite your face. I guarantee you that you'll lose well over half of your members and quite frankly you'd deserve to by denying the average person the ability to use basic features of your website. >_<

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LaserdiscGal

Well I love this place, so of course.

But a donation button would probably work better.

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nacho_chicken

While I would love to support you guys monthly, I agree with @amii... @TommuWisaeu in that a donation button would be better in practice.

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unrandomsam

I am not against paying but I would certainly want the ability to remove the clickbait stuff. (Or move it all into one news post per day or something like that just what is known).

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DefHalan

If it was a subscription then I would expect a lot from it. A donation thing would be fine.

People keep saying the Xbox One doesn't have Backwards Compatibility.
I don't think they know what Backwards Compatibility means...

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yokokazuo

I probably wouldn't really want to pay for using this site despite liking it quite a bit overall. Although the ads on here have never bothered me so I never use ad block.

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DefHalan

yokokazuo wrote:

I probably wouldn't really want to pay for using this site despite liking it quite a bit overall. Although the ads on here have never bothered me so I never use ad block.

The only thing that bugs me about the ads is how they can tell what I was thinking about buying... but it is kinda helpful for Amiibo Hunting lol

People keep saying the Xbox One doesn't have Backwards Compatibility.
I don't think they know what Backwards Compatibility means...

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antdickens

DefHalan wrote:

If it was a subscription then I would expect a lot from it. A donation thing would be fine.

I guess the almost 500 articles we publish per month doesn't count? That would probably work out less than $0.01 per article..

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