When I ran a community it was mainly funded by donations with myself making up any remainder that hadn't been donated. The only 'perk' anyone got for donating was a little tag next to their name in the community forums that said Donor, and more often than not people chose to donate anonymously so they didn't get the tag. It's really one of those things that if people really do enjoy what is offered they will help out. I've personally donated myself to communities in other games (even small amounts) with no 'reward' for donating besides the fact that the server stays up. People value a good place to play and even though at the time I made enough to support the servers myself, donations helped lessen the burden, and we had little tournaments every once in a while if we had donations that surpassed what was required per month to keep the servers up with gaming-type prizes. Was pretty fun and our community seemed to enjoy it.
On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Gavin Langdon <[email protected]> wrote: > That's not really true, IMO. For example, donations to WWF (the World > Wildlife Fund) or PBS give you perks such as tote bags, DVDs, and plenty of > other gifts. Certainly, the value of the gifts is much lower than they > would be--they're more incentives rather than actual products--but the fact > remains, there are still perks for donating. > > Now certainly TF2 community donations are not anywhere near the same as > actual nonprofit organizations, but I think it's fair to call them > donations. Many of the people who donate to CSn do it more because they > enjoy their community rather than because they want round-end immunity. > > Since you mentioned reserved slots, yes we do have them, but we do not > have the kicking feature enabled, so our servers appear full (24/24) > instead of 23/24. We too dislike the kicking reserved slots. > > --Gavin "Benny Hill" L from the Crit Sandvich Network > > On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 6:41 PM, Invalid Protocol < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> As far as I know, when you donate (money or goods) you don’t expect >> something back. Very few communities use donations to support the servers. >> **** >> >> ** ** >> >> Most of them simply sell something (access to reserved slot, immunity >> during humiliation round etc…) for real money and call this a donation. >> Also, as far as I know, No Heroes servers can kick a player to free a slot >> for a “donator” ( >> http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1531500), so in >> their case is “pay to play” instead “pay to win”.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *E. Olsen >> *Sent:* Saturday, May 05, 2012 12:59 AM >> >> *To:* Half-Life dedicated Win32 server mailing list >> *Subject:* Re: [hlds] Policy of Truth??**** >> >> ** ** >> >> Yeah - let's not paint communities whose members donate to support their >> servers as something negative. Community supported servers are as old as pc >> gaming itself. Not all communities that are member-supported are "pay to >> win". We sure as hell aren't.**** >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, > please visit: > https://list.valvesoftware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hlds > >
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