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absquatulate, wczoraj do games w New gaming website "This Week in Video Games" launched by Skill Up

Been following the guy on youtube for a while and I love the initiative, but damn, I find it hard to justify 10€ a month for just a single dedicated gaming publication. I expect I will support them every few months or so, but yeah, to me 100€/year seems too hefty.

Also what worries me is that this model has been tried, before the days of ad-supported web, and didn’t fare so well, so why would it work now?

victorz, wczoraj

People have so much more money now! 🙃

ampersandrew, wczoraj

It’s also the only model that’s survived after the ad-supported web. If you’re not IGN, this is the only way games media works.

GreyCat, wczoraj

Yeah, that’s pretty expensive ngl. It would be nice if they introduced a lower tier 🤔

so why would it work now?

From what he says, it seems that he is counting on the fact that he already has an audience from his youtube channel, and that he won’t have to start from nothing.

Spesknight, wczoraj do games w New gaming website "This Week in Video Games" launched by Skill Up

In Italy we have FinalRound.it that is ad free, independent and donation based (only in Italian though)

UnfortunateShort, wczoraj do games w New gaming website "This Week in Video Games" launched by Skill Up

Great idea, immediatly tarnished by using third party tracking tools (Google Analytics).

GreyCat, wczoraj

Are you sure ? I don’t see any connection to google analytics in ublock origin.

JTskulk, wczoraj do games w New gaming website "This Week in Video Games" launched by Skill Up

I enabled javascript on this website just for it to tell me to go away lmao

GreyCat, wczoraj

What ? Why ? I’m using ublock origin in hard mode and I don’t have any problem.

JTskulk, wczoraj

I also use UBO and I scrolled down a bit and got a pop up saying the content is for donators only so I closed the tab.

GreyCat, 3 godziny temu

Oh yeah that is pretty weird. It’s normal that they have premium content but the way they show it to users is odd.

If you care enough to try the site again, the news and features tab doesn’t have that.

That fake “pop-up” is only on the homepage if you scroll down a little…

pjusk, wczoraj do games w New gaming website "This Week in Video Games" launched by Skill Up

Love skillup and their cover ups! I watch all their stuff so for me this was easy to justify support for. Also a very clean website goddamn! Excited to see how this goes.