The developers have always been in agreement that we should never charge or try to make a profit from Gang Garrison, but as time has gone by and our popularity has grown, the costs of hosting the forum and website have gone up.
The most dramatic bill came last week, when, due to traffic generated by the Team Fortress blog, we exceeded our transfer bandwidth and were presented with a massive overcharge fee of about $150. This was a bit more than any of us was interested in paying on our own to keep this site running, so we were hoping that the community could get involved in helping us to pay the bills. No profit will be taken by any of the developers, and all donations will be used to pay for hosting costs and other necessities to keep this game and community up and running.
There is now a donate button on the front page, it can be found by scrolling right past the download pages, any donations are appreciated, and we hope that if things go well, the community will become self-sustaining and be able to pay for all the hosting costs in the future.
Also, if you are too lazy to navigate to the frontpage, you can donate through the following link:
DonateEDIT: We will now be offering further incentives to donate; Custom Titles!
Users who donate $10 or less will become 'Intel Carriers' and get one of these sexy money intels instead of stars.
Users who donate $15 or more will get a custom title of their choosing, and 2 money-intel-stars.
If you donate an even larger amount you will get an intel for each $10 you donated, maxing out at 5, also you still get a custom title of your choice.
These rewards are simply the best we could think of, if you have another idea about how we can reward your donation, just let us know and we will do our best to make it happen
Many thanks to all of our Donaters!
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