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Do you like what we do here? Well, you can help our continued operation by pledging to the Patreon or Paypal!

The support has been fantastic and you’re all amazing. We would like to take this opportunity to say thank you to all who have funded GOL in the past, are doing so currently or who may do in future. Thanks to you, this website has been running smoothly!

At time of writing, we’re not all that far off reaching our most important goal on Patreon! At a little over $400 extra a month we would be 100% financially secure for the foreseeable future. If we ever manage to reach that goal, it would be pretty incredible.

We did consider adverts again in the last few months, but decided after speaking to Patrons and thinking more on it, they just wouldn’t be worth it. For one, adverts from outside sources come with privacy issues with trackers and so on. They also pay so little now, considering the vast majority block them. I’ve seen a number of people say they wouldn’t mind them, but the drawbacks of having them are too great. Consider this message our continued commitment to not have a single advert on the website.

On a personal note: The website has succeeded even my wildest dreams, it’s such a great feeling to be right at the front of Linux gaming. Linux is special to me and I really want to see it succeed as a gaming platform. It has in many ways already succeeded, with it improving year over year, so I plan to carry on doing this for many more years to come—with your support!

Sales Page

On the subject of succeeding, we have managed to create a brand new Linux game Sales Page. The old one had numerous design flaws, all of which should have been corrected with this new and improved version. It’s actually hooking into a tweaked version of our old release calendar database, so we can add DLC tags and all sorts of nice things that the old sales page couldn’t do.

One major advancement over the old one, is that you can type a name into the searchbar and it will offer suggestions, click one and it will reload the information and display the sales found for that name. It works really well too!

Each game on sale will list the stores besides it, the first on the left is always the cheapest! Making it easy to tell which one to go for at a glance.

Bundles and individual sales are split, to make it easier too. Major bundles are listed right at the top, for easy pickings!

We are currently grabbing sales automatically from: Steam, Humble Store, GOG and GamersGate. I’m hoping to roll out itch.io sales soon, but their sales feed mixes all currencies together which is a bit of a mess.

I'm also looking at adding in a wishlist feature, so each time it detects a sale and it's in your wishlist, to send you a notification. Haven't worked that out yet, so that's still to come.

 

We also have a merch store, where you can buy t-shirts, hoodies, cups and so on to help support us as well. Something which was a common request. Our Samsai decided to check out a hoody—looking stylish! Find our little store here.

If you’re ever curious about what we’ve been doing, we have this handy page right here. It shows a bunch of statistics, like who’s done what.

If you have any suggestions on something for us to write about, a feature for the website directly or anything else feel free to email any time. You can use our email form, or just shoot one directly to [email protected] (feel free to pass that email around to developers like sweet candy).

Support links again: Patreon or Paypal!

As usual, we won’t post directly here about asking for support for another couple months. Thank you everyone, happy gaming!

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ripper Oct 31, 2017
Have you seen what https://flattr.com has done with Flattr 2.0? All you need to do is to create an account and register the domain, and that's it (edit: actually, you also need to add a meta tag to html headers). You'll automatically receive flattrs from people having the browser extension installed and visiting GOL (and also your YouTube videos if you configure that in your account). No need to mess around with buttons or anything. Would you consider setting up the account and letting people to fund you this way as well?


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1xok Oct 31, 2017
Got a free Steam key for Layers of Fear today. Thank you! :)


Last edited by 1xok on 31 October 2017 at 3:49 pm UTC
Lolo01 Oct 31, 2017
Pledge done a week ago.
I don't understand how to get supporter badge :P
You're doing a great job, thanks.
pete910 Oct 31, 2017
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Quoting: Lolo01Pledge done a week ago.
I don't understand how to get supporter badge :P
You're doing a great job, thanks.

Any particular reason why you want one ?
adila01 Oct 31, 2017
I feel that the Patreon donation levels can be improved. There is a huge gap between Premium Plus and "Sin made me do this one". Creating levels at $15 a month and $25 a month may get some existing patreon's to upgrade. The $500 and $1000 is a bit too high and the names of it makes the site look unseemly. Those are just my thoughts.
Liam Dawe Oct 31, 2017
Quoting: adila01I feel that the Patreon donation levels can be improved. There is a huge gap between Premium Plus and "Sin made me do this one". Creating levels at $15 a month and $25 a month may get some existing patreon's to upgrade. The $500 and $1000 is a bit too high and the names of it makes the site look unseemly. Those are just my thoughts.
The super high tiers are basically a joke, i don't expect anyone to actually use them. However, I admit they are a bit on the silly side so I will likely remove them so we dont give off the wrong idea.

As for adding some reasonable higher tiers, that's very difficult for a site like this considering 99% of what we do everyone has access to. Existing Patrons have already said clearly they dont want anyone locked out of anything more and im quite against any sort of timed articles for higher tiers.

If you have any nice ideas do let me know! :)
scaine Oct 31, 2017
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Gaming on Linux is still practically my home page to all intents and purposes. Keep up the fine work man - hugely appreciated!
Purple Pudding Oct 31, 2017
About the Sales page:
1) is it still in beta right? Can't see it in the site menu
2) tried it with a smartphone: can't check the "no DLC" checkbox (but maybe I'm just a bit clumsy)
3) are you going to continue the articles about Bundles and Wednesday Sales? I hope yes, they are great!

Well, other than that, this site is wonderful. You are the reason I'm still on Linux and the reason my wallet is empty: I should hate you for this but I can't. Scrooge McDuck is looking at me with shame.

About the higher tiers rewards, how about some original merch stuff that you do not sell for everyone? Like signed things or GOL pants (with "GNU/Balls" on the front:D) or a GOL Mug filled with salt by Samsai himself.
Be creative with that merch store!
Also, about it, why I can't see GOL penguin in there? I want a plush of him and stickers!


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Cyril Oct 31, 2017
Liam, have you took a look at Liberapay ?
-> https://en.liberapay.com/
It needs more visibility in my opinion.
I don't wanted to donate with Patreon, so thank you for Paypal Support, i donated. ;)
Liam Dawe Oct 31, 2017
Quoting: Purple PuddingAbout the Sales page:
1) is it still in beta right? Can't see it in the site menu
Very much beta! So much beta I should put a beta sticker on it.
Quoting: Purple Pudding2) tried it with a smartphone: can't check the "no DLC" checkbox (but maybe I'm just a bit clumsy)
Is that with Firefox mobile? Works in chrome on Android.

Quoting: Purple Pudding3) are you going to continue the articles about Bundles and Wednesday Sales? I hope yes, they are great!
Yep, the sales page is there for anyone who wants to make use of it. It will not replace sales articles, just an additional service for us to offer to the community.

Quoting: Purple PuddingWell, other than that, this site is wonderful. You are the reason I'm still on Linux and the reason my wallet is empty: I should hate you for this but I can't. Scrooge McDuck is looking at me with shame.
Hah! Thanks for the kind words!

Quoting: Purple PuddingAbout the higher tiers rewards, how about some original merch stuff that you do not sell for everyone? Like signed things or GOL pants (with "GNU/Balls" on the front:D) or a GOL Mug filled with salt by Samsai himself.
Be creative with that merch store!
Also, about it, why I can't see GOL penguin in there? I want a plush of him and stickers!
Will keep those ideas in mind, limited run merch is actually quite expensive to do really. As for the official GOL penguin, that should come in future :)
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