Pay To Read

If I won't pay to read penthouse online, I'll be damned if I'll pay to read gaming shit.

Oh yeah, I pay to view the Wall St. Journal. They always had a subscription model, and it works. However, they're worthwhile, not like most of the crap that's out there.

There are too many half-assed "gaming sites" out there. I need:

(1) the shack for the user comments
(2) blues if I really am interested in seeing if there is news
(3) oldmanmurray to keep me sane
(4) firingsquad.com for the occasional review

The rest can all die, and I won't be affected, so it's all OK.

I don't think there are any websites out there worth paying to read. I expect more than a dozen or so brief articles for money, unless I'm only paying like, a dollar a week/month.

I would never pay to read a website. I click on banners to support the sites that I visit the most, but paying for the content is out of the question.

I love coming here because it's one of the best gaming pages on the 'net, but I wouldn't even pay for the Shack (sorry guys.. hehe).

I think everything on the planet should be free. Food, clothing, vehicles, etc etc...if no one charged for making, building, or selling anything, we wouldn't even need money! ;) We wouldn't have to worry about paying bills, because there wouldn't BE any. Think of how awesome that would be...people wouldn't have to worry about hating their jobs, because they would only get the job that they loved... since they wouldn't get paid, they would just do it for fun!

The planet would live in perfect harmony. Everyone has everything, and we're all happy. :) *sigh*

/Xak

P.S. I'll be running for World Leader in 2002, every vote counts! :)

The one problem with subscription models is that the number of visitors that site gets now vs. the number the visitors the site would get after they made it a pay site.... the number of ppl will drop, which would cause a decrease in the monthly revenue which would put that gaming site in the same situation as it was before only now the ppl that came to that site before have found a new free site and if the site that went to the subscription model went back to free, they would have a very hard time to regain the previous number of viewers.

not gonna happen.