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Help Make BlizzPro Ad Free!

by - 9 years ago

Check out our Patreon page http://patreon.com/blizzpro to help make BlizzPro a better place.

Ads are a serious pain in the butt for all involved. The users hate them because they can be annoying and get in the way of the content. They can also be dangerous because sometimes malicious people will sneak malware in through ads before the publishers notice it’s too late. For content creators, especially ones with a demographic of tech savvy people, we lose out on a very big chunk of advertising revenue because of adblock. In fact, over 60% of our readers use adblock. Could you run anything with 60% of your revenue being cut simply because users have a program installed? It’s terrible and I hate ads. I hate having to troubleshoot problems they bring when malicious ads come through and I get a sick feeling to my stomach if any of my users got anything on their computers because of it.

I want to make BlizzPro ad free and I need your help in doing it.

Artists and writers are underpaid. Their craft isn’t valued by enough people. Some people think they can simply get content for free and it’s silly to pay anything for it. I’ve been working on fansites for 15 years now and I have never gotten paid for it and it was irritating. Not irritating enough for me to quit doing it, because I enjoyed it. But it certainly isn’t fair. Now as someone who runs their own fansite, I see how little money is made on this end of it. As much as I’d love to, I can’t pay my writers or contributors unless I took money out of my own pocket from my full time job (that is not BlizzPro) and that’s not fair to me to have to do that. We make due though and we help our writers out with job applications and building up their resumes. We’ve had 2 team members go on to work at Blizzard with many more who have put in applications there.

I want to make BlizzPro a place where we can afford to pay our writers and contributors and I need your help in doing it.

Paying for shared web hosting is bad for a website. You’re sharing a server with other websites, and if their traffic spikes or they do something funny, they can cause your website to slow down or even worse, go offline. On the flip side of that, sometimes we get so much traffic we end up getting throttled to prevent our site from affecting others on the server. We get slowed down many many times a day because of our traffic and this sucks for our users. Sometimes a page will load slow, other times they might get a timeout on the database connection.

I want to move BlizzPro to a dedicated server, and I need your help in doing it.

All of these things, plus more you can help with. Just head over to our Patreon page and you can choose to help fund BlizzPro on a monthly basis. Enjoy the site every day? Consider sending us a little tip each month so we can move to improve the site for you. Right now it’s a pay what you want and even if you choose not to pay, it’s ok. BlizzPro does currently make enough right now to be able to continue going for a long time. We just want to be able to make it better by removing ads, getting a dedicated server, and being able to pay our contributors. Every little bit will help us get to those goals.

As of right now the reward tiers are $1 (Thank you!) and $5. The $5 tier will get you invited to our team member monthly game days. Once a month as a team we plan on getting together and playing Hearthstone or something like that, hang out in voice chat and goof off.  That monthly fee will get you an invite.

We’d like to do more tiers and we’ll add more eventually. Right now we just wanted to keep it simple and see how things go. Have any ideas for more tiers? Please let us know in the comments or email me jrcook@blizzpro.com

Thanks again for your support!


posted in Hearthstone
JR Cook

JR has been writing for fan sites since 2000 and has been involved with Blizzard Exclusive fansites since 2003. JR was also a co-host for 6 years on the Hearthstone podcast Well Met! He helped co-found BlizzPro in 2013.


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