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Forums - Website Topics - Official VGChartz Supporters Thread - New Perks Added

HoloDust on 08 March 2016
Machina said:
yo_john117 said:

Hey now the purpose of the supporter program is not to make you feel bad or cheap. If you don't want to do it that's fine, nobody is pressuring you nor should you feel cheap for not doing it.

Also, the program is definitely not microtransactions. It's a tiered service similar to many websites and services (YouTube Red, Hulu Plus, IGN Prime, etc.).

Pretty much what I would say. It's cool if users wanna take part and we appreciate the support but if you don't want to - and most people won't - then that's absolutely fine. There's no pressure to sign up and nothing's been removed from regular users.

It's been actually - equal voting right in articles - Mr.Playstation is absolutely right, this is very much like microtransactions.



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JoeTheBro on 08 March 2016

How about GIF avatars for supporters? People love those.

No ads shown on your profile for other users? Would make users with GOLD feel more fancy.



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homer on 08 March 2016

Gross. I want to know how many people actually end up supporting this. You'd have to be mad to think this is a good deal. The charts are updated inconsistently, the forum isn't big enough to warrant something like this, and there are rarely any new news articles. Let's be honest here, you guys aren't providing anything of value.



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outlawauron on 09 March 2016

Honestly, I'm kinda disappointed that it has to come to this, but I guess I understand why it's being done. I love VGC and have spent 9 years of my life on it. I check it and post almost every single day. Not sure how I feel about all of this.

If you do institute a block/ignore system, I do hope you'd make that known to the person being blocked as well.



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barneystinson69 on 09 March 2016
TruckOSaurus said:

Stealing this post to compile a list of suggested perks. If you have a suggestion for a perk you'd like to see and it's not on one of the lists below then post it in this thread and I'll add it in.

Newest Suggestions:
- Some improvements/updates to the game collection feature (all users).
- VGChartz Buddy accessible on mobile (all users).
- Ability to change username (all users - one time for everyone).
- Ability to sticky threads on VGChartz buddy (perk for all supporter tiers).
- Forum Hot Topic preferences to carry over to front page (all users).
- Prediction League (all users, but with some additional functionality/perks for Supporters?)
- VGChartz IM chat (all users)
- Return of photo albums to profiles (all users, but with added perks for Supporters, e.g. extra albums)
- GIF avatars (perk for all support tiers).

Approved/to be Added Over Time:
- Forum badges for Bronze, Silver, and Gold subscribers (perk for all supporter tiers - higher tiers also get the Bronze/Silver badges)
- Ability to hide posts by certain users (perk for all supporter tiers).


Rejected/Currently Unworkable:
- Ban immunity.

 

 

 

Original post:

It was a fun project to do! It's also been nice to be able to browse VGC without ads on PC and on mobile!

With my posting history... damn you're tempting me. But sorry, I had a credit card "incident" once when using it on the internet. So sorry.



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Darwinianevolution on 10 March 2016

So I just went to see my profile, and saw this:

I suddenly get the supporter label, but I haven't subscribed to the program. Have I done something to earn it?



You know it deserves the GOTY.

Come join The 2018 Obscure Game Monthly Review Thread.

TruckOSaurus on 10 March 2016
Darwinianevolution said:

So I just went to see my profile, and saw this:

I suddenly get the supporter label, but I haven't subscribed to the program. Have I done something to earn it?

It was gifted to you by spurgeonryan.



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Darwinianevolution on 10 March 2016
TruckOSaurus said:
Darwinianevolution said:

So I just went to see my profile, and saw this:

I suddenly get the supporter label, but I haven't subscribed to the program. Have I done something to earn it?

It was gifted to you by spurgeonryan.

Didn't even know you could do that! Thanks spurgeonryan!



You know it deserves the GOTY.

Come join The 2018 Obscure Game Monthly Review Thread.

TruckOSaurus on 10 March 2016
Darwinianevolution said:
TruckOSaurus said:

It was gifted to you by spurgeonryan.

Didn't even know you could do that! Thanks spurgeonryan!

This makes me realize that I need to add some sort notification when something like that happens.



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Slarvax on 10 March 2016
Darwinianevolution said:
TruckOSaurus said:

It was gifted to you by spurgeonryan.

Didn't even know you could do that! Thanks spurgeonryan!

He's not only adding everyone on the site, now he also buys friendship! We're doomed...



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