Building a Retro Gaming Club

[Mat Growcott]

I'm sorry, but for all the "information" you have just posted, you still haven't explained how this is any different than literally dozens of other websites already out there, none of which are begging people they don't know for money. If you are serious about this idea, you and your partner should pool your financial resources and build a site. If people find it valuable enough, I'm sure they would consider donating at that point. Coming here with an unoriginal idea asking for money when you and your partner aren't even well known or established members of the community (I love that he posted he has been coming here for years and yet somehow posted from a brand new account) is the epitome of naivety and frankly, a good sign that your idea will never come to anything meaning anyone who donates is throwing money down a hole.

Actually, I've explained more than once how it would be different; for the sake of saving people time, I'll explain again. With a focus on a single game and while encouraging people to post longer, more detailed posts, the community section of the site will be dedicated to intelligent discussion of well-known and rarer classics of the past. Focussing on a single title at a time will mean that we can enjoy dissecting the game at a much slower pace. This would be but a single facet of the site, used by general community to discuss the monthly title. Feel free to share with us sites that you feel have implemented the full range of things we've mentioned in this thread, though, because I think perhaps you'll be surprised.

I also don't especially like the term begging. Kickstarter/Indiegogo is full of ideas, some which you'd think are good, some which you'd think are bad. There's a kid on there trying to get people to give him money so he can pay his way into the E3 convention, THAT is begging. Please see the difference: we are after small donations towards something that the people who donate may enjoy. If you're not one of those people, as you've made clear, that's fine, don't donate.

We're not trying to put one over you, matey, I'm trying to be as reasonable and open as I possibly can and I can't say it more clearly than: if you don't want to donate, don't donate.