Help Keep VFDC Running

I'll donate what I can as soon as the option is available. I've been using this site and its resources for years, I want it to be around when I'm an old fart!

 

Hey Myke,

I'll be able to chip in soon if you can open a donation account through PayPal.

Kruza

 

Why not just ditch Google AdSense if it's so shitty? Oops, probably violated their rules right there!

 

I'm pretty broke atm but if a donation option comes up I could stick a few £ in each month. I'm not on VFDC as much as I used to be but it's important to me and I'd hate to see it go.

 

count me in for donation as well.

 

I'd be happy to donate too even if it's just a few pounds, if everyone chipped in a little it should help out. Google Ads are known for being pretty strict, I find it easier to advertise by joining an affiliate program, here are some good ones

http://www.play.com/information/become-an-affiliate.html
https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/

 

Have you reached out to Sega America to see if they will help support the site?

 

Did you honestly expect something from Sega like supporting western VF?

I think the donation thing via PayPal is best at this point, I mean if it's only $100 a month then if at least a handful of people here donate like $10 every now and then it should be enough to cover the costs if you're willing to pay a little bit out of your own pocket too. I could chip in with a few euros a month, won't kill my business.

Another option could be to sell some kind of VFDC merch, like shirts or something, but I'm thinking that with the current low userbase this site has you'd probably just end up losing more money printing them, or atleast would have to sell them for a lot to even break even. Then there could be a licensing issue with Sega if you use their VF trademark for commercial purposes.

 

10$ per month is a lot. Don't expect something more than 1$ per user each month.
But even 1$ per month should cover a good part of the expenses for the platform.

 

+1 for donations. I'd prefer to just pay a bigger amount once per year though. It should be a reasonable goal to get 60 people to pay 20$ so we have the whole year covered, right?

 

Well, let's make a button with an open donation. People should decide how much give for the cause.

 

The PayPal donation system gives the user the option on how much a user wants to donate plus allows the user to chip in as often as he/she likes. It's a good setup. There aren't many convenient yet more secure money account sites than this one over the internet.

Kruza

 

http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/ga-alternatives/

 

I will commit to an annual contribution maybe something like 1/12 of the annual cost of site (whatever it happens to grow to or shrink to) and if more is needed I'll step up.

But I don't think we should censor VFDC beyond what its members and moderators truly want censored. Part of the appeal of a site like VFDC is the freedom that is enjoyed on the site. If sponsors (out side of the VFDC community) start dictating what will and will not appear on VFDC that would be a dark day (a very dark day). IMO VFDC is a international FG treasure and deserves its place in history along side VF the game. It should be Google's and anybody else's pleasure to sponsor us and they should consider it a privilege that we allow them to display their adds on our site at any cost. The last thing we should be concerned about is kotowing for some damn add money.

Viva La VFDC

 

Very Good! Along those lines this may sound a little over the top (I always do)

But what about starting a non-profit org: something like a VFDC society that has members and officers (elections etc) who will pay annual membership dues and then the society would be responsible for running and maintaining VFDC so that the financial and maintenance burden of the website will never again be on a single individual. The VFDC society in addition to maintaining the VFDC website could sponsor/hold annual events. Sell Merchandise, etc. Maybe the organization could have as part of a mission and vision statement

1) The promotion and preservation of the Virtua Fighter Series
2) The maintenance and support of VFDC
3) Keepers of the official history of Virtua Fighter (maybe history of all 3D fighting games)
4) Maintain, designate the official international standards for FG Ranks
5) Hold an annual international VF tournament
6) Produce a semi-annual original VF Anime/Evolve the VF Story and Characters
7) Offer the annual Virtua Fighter of the Year award Trophy to some excellent player



A VFDC or Virtua Fighter Society might sound a bit extreme, but it would insure all future interest in the game, its folklore, its community and its history.

Annual Membership dues could pay for the website easily. Come up with things
that we could offer members as premiums: e.g.

T-Shirts
Annual VFDC Calendar
Membership Card
Polished Digital Video Versions of Past Year's Tournaments( and Highlights)
VF Sticks
etc.

Based on the trajectory of the fighting game genre I thinks something like the Virtua Fighter Society or the VFDC Society is just what the doctor ordered.