Unseen64 Donations Details - June 2016 (Patreon)

We have updated the donations amount with the funds raised in May 2016, as always you can find all details in our dedicated page: http://www.unseen64.net/how-to-he

• Preservation Fund @ May 2016:
  • Total: $2,641.13 (from Patreon + One-Off donations)
• Patreon Donations in June 2016
  • +$233.18 Processed 
  • -$13.73 CC / Paypal Fees
  • -$11.71 Patreon Fees
• Paypal Donations in June 2016
  • nothing
    
• Expenses in June 2016:
  • nothing
    
• New Total for June 2016:  $2,848.87

Planned Expenses:

About 500 $ = as we wrote before we would like to invest part of the donations to create even more Unseen64 video-articles every month. We know that today most people don’t read gaming reviews on websites anymore and just rely on video reviews from Youtube. For “historical” websites like Unseen64 is just the same, there are many more people that would watch a 10 minutes video about a cancelled game, rather than to fully read a 1.000 words article on the topic. Just like in the past gaming magazines have been replaced by gaming websites, now youtubers are taking the mass-market lead for videogames reviews, news and historical researches. While it would require more time to create a good video article (especially as the main Unseen64 is italian and we have to find other people for voice-overs), it would reach many more users than 3 or 4 written articles. We will test this from August to December 2016, when work on the Unseen64 book will be good enough to permit us to create about 2 more video articles each month.

About ??? $ = as we wrote before we would like to test investing part of the Preservation Fund to incentive authors to write more articles each month, to archive more and more games in the site. We will test this in the future, when work on the Unseen64 book will be good enough to permit us to use some time for extra updates on the site.

About 600 $ = an estimate of the cost to print and ship Unseen64 books (when they will be finished) to each author that contributed with at least a few great articles for the book.

Before to start to rise donations for the Unseen64 server 2017 (from August 2017 to August 2018, we will probably start at the end of 2016), future donations will be set aside in a "Preservation Fund", for emergency site expenses.

• About 1,748.87 $ = as usual we will open a discussion on Patreon when there will be possible expenses, for now this amount remains in the Preservation Funds for future needs.

We think that this is not our money, the use of donations in the Preservation Fund is discussed with all the contributors that help to preserve lost videogames in the Unseen64 online archive. We keep this page updated each month, so you can track down how many donations will be raised and how they will be used.

Big gaming networks such as IGN or Kotaku have the resources to own powerful servers and to pay a team to work full-time on their websites, keeping their sites online and publishing daily updates. We don’t have their resources, but we think we have something better: we have you, a community of gamers that know why it’s important to remember beta and cancelled games. Thanks for your support!