SUBSCRIPTION MYTHS ANSWERED

[Headadmin]

Ok, everybody there is alot of speculation and rumors flying around about the subscription area and the community as a whole. First of Xiled Gaming does not make any money it looses money every year, we have no sponsors, this community is paid for by the council alone and nobody else. Secondly the subscription area is totally VOLUNTARY, you dont have to subscribe. The money generated by this subscription area will go to pay for the web hosting, domain names, software and other costs associated with sustaining our community.
In the future we would like to continue to grow and add new features to the community, like better ladders and websites as well as giving perks back to our gamers and leaders. Also we would like to have prizes for tounaments (cash, games, microsoft points, t-shirts and gamer gear).

Registered Members (FREE): you will be able to have a avatar, a signature and 50 private messgaes
The reason for this is that all the images on our site are eating up all bandwidth and resources on the server, this costs us more money for hosting, if you would like to have extra pictures and perks, you can join one of the subscription areas (ONCE AGAIN COMPLETELY VOLUNTARY).

 

[SYN Classic]

I would get a subscription, but I don't have a credit card. If only there was some prepaid way I could get it lol. Would you take Microsoft Points cards? Oh and I think we should try and get a sponsor.

 

[Chandler]

Or you could just go to a convenience store and buy a pre-paid Visa card.

 

[Romance]

or we can make videos to get sponsers

 

[Acal]

Have the people who run this site ever considered putting up a few adverts onto the site to offset some of the cost it takes to run it?

 

[XGC HYLANDER XC]

Yes, ads have been considered but in the end that would clutter the site with unwanted crap that also slows things down.

Many of the other subscription sites offer FREE areas and have nothing but ads all over it popping up in your face when you go to every other page. We have no intention of doing such a thing.

 

[Acal]

I wasn't, by any means, suggesting an overusage of adverts. I was simply suggesting adding like 1 or 2.

 

[blondiizzle]

We have one on the main forum page. They are also looking to add more things, and continue with projects that just require some funding.

 

[S3NOR1TA]

i think the subscription thing is working out well so far. I have seen many members join and I intend on joining as soon as we get an XGG shirt in the works for the platinum members. If I were the one paying out of pocket every year to keep this site up and running I'd want help. When it comes down to it...it really is only fair. We use the site just like the owners do and so we should help contribute.

 

[Thumper]

I completly agree.. I love the fact that i am helping out.. and its one of the best 40 dollas ive spent