On the contrary, the suggestion to empower yourself to find better cost free board gaming resources is in fact completely and primarily relevant. You don't "support them as a viewer", such a concept only exists in the mind of a narcissist. Your visits of their web site does not benefit them in the slightest. There's also no such thing as a 'potential cash paying customer'; it's a smoke screen for you to complain. Another fanciful argument from a self-entitled point of view.
The reality is you won't go somewhere else because BGG provides a free resource to you that you found beneficial, but without the gratitude that should be the obvious response. Leeching resources doesn't make you valuable. In fact, it doesn't even make you relevant. On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 12:55:52 PM UTC-8, Travis Sonsalla wrote: > > I made no mention of disliking the service/benefit ratio. I simply said > their ongoing unplanned outages holds me back from wanting to donate > financially. No hard feelings toward anyone at BGG, but these are my > expectations as a potential cash-paying customer. > > The tired argument of "go somewhere else if you don't like it" is > irrelevant. I support them as a viewer of the advertising but won't > support them financially until service is reliable. > > > On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 12:07:52 PM UTC-6, orionstars wrote: >> >> In my opinion if you don't like the service/benefit ratio - then stop >> using the site completely. You can view ads anywhere. Visit the online >> retailers by going right to their site. So delete your BGG account and >> don't use any of it's resources anymore. >> >> If you don't like this freely available, massive, community built with no >> financial compensation, platform for OoP game information and launch pad >> for new ventures, smart-phone/tablet/computer accessible, creative gaming >> resource - bow out. >> >> (By the way - take the challenge, I did it myself. I stayed off the site >> for quite awhile to see if I really made use of it. It didn't take long for >> me to run into the issue of not being able to find the rule answers and >> variant info Anywhere else. So I'm not talk from a point of ignorance here. >> I took a spoonful of my own medicine.) >> >> On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 10:53:40 AM UTC-6, Travis Sonsalla wrote: >>> >>> Agreed. This is exactly why I am more than willing to view their >>> advertisements but not be a patron. They are a business, and to have such >>> a history of repeated unplanned outages comes across as unprofessional. I >>> wish BGG the best, but earning my financial patronage will require a >>> consistently stable and available site. Just like I would expect from any >>> other web site I choose to support financially via subscription or donation. >>> >>> On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 10:45:22 AM UTC-6, yo wrote: >>>> >>>> why does this site go down so much considering how much money it makes? >>>> no other website that I have visited in the last 10 yrs or so, has this >>>> issue. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BGG Down" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/bgg_down/-/e_F7Ttpw-WIJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bgg_down?hl=en.
