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Thankfully, some people out there still do things because they enjoy it and not because they think there's money to be made.

by bakugo 4y ago

vinhboy 4y ago
those two things are not always mutually exclusive
- account42 4y ago
  Monetizing something usually affects what you create as well as your experience creating it. It can easily be a negative effect.
princevegeta89 4y ago
Well, my 2c is that making money is an enjoyable activity as well. As someone who loved all the RTS/Tycoon games back in 2000's, I look at making money through own ventures as just another game at the same time
- sfink 4y ago
  Sometimes making money off of something turns out to be incompatible with enjoyment, and you find out too late. Depends on the person, how slippery the slippery slope is, and the motivation for a particular project. I could ask myself "how much money would I be willing to pay to bring benefit to a large number of people?" It's definitely nonzero. But that's not a great question, because we all hate losing stuff we have (and paying is losing). It's a lot easier psychologically to forgo getting the money in the first place. (Note that I wouldn't be able to forgo that much money. Though I might be able to procrastinate throwing the monetization switch for a while. How long is relative to my level of privilege in my own finances.)
  - princevegeta89 4y ago
    Agreed. Depends on the personal point of view for every individual, and that's the reason I commented as my "2c". Personally, if I were the guy running the steamdb website I would have brought in the monetization aspect as quickly as possible, once I knew there was a lot of traffic coming in.
jonny_eh 4y ago
Most people who do things "just because", don't monetize because either it isn't possible or it isn't worth the effort. For a site with as much traffic as GP's, it's probably worth it. Regardless, anyone turning down that much revenue out of principle deserves a lot of credit.
- uoaei 4y ago
  That sounds like a pretty ideologically-motivated form of selection bias.

Thankfully, some people out there still do things because they enjoy it and not because they think there's money to be made.

by bakugo 4y ago

Thankfully, some people out there still do things because they enjoy it and not because they think there's money to be made.

vinhboy 4y ago

those two things are not always mutually exclusive

account42 4y ago
Monetizing something usually affects what you create as well as your experience creating it. It can easily be a negative effect.

princevegeta89 4y ago

Well, my 2c is that making money is an enjoyable activity as well. As someone who loved all the RTS/Tycoon games back in 2000's, I look at making money through own ventures as just another game at the same time

sfink 4y ago
Sometimes making money off of something turns out to be incompatible with enjoyment, and you find out too late. Depends on the person, how slippery the slippery slope is, and the motivation for a particular project. I could ask myself "how much money would I be willing to pay to bring benefit to a large number of people?" It's definitely nonzero. But that's not a great question, because we all hate losing stuff we have (and paying is losing). It's a lot easier psychologically to forgo getting the money in the first place. (Note that I wouldn't be able to forgo that much money. Though I might be able to procrastinate throwing the monetization switch for a while. How long is relative to my level of privilege in my own finances.)
- princevegeta89 4y ago
  Agreed. Depends on the personal point of view for every individual, and that's the reason I commented as my "2c". Personally, if I were the guy running the steamdb website I would have brought in the monetization aspect as quickly as possible, once I knew there was a lot of traffic coming in.

jonny_eh 4y ago

Most people who do things "just because", don't monetize because either it isn't possible or it isn't worth the effort. For a site with as much traffic as GP's, it's probably worth it. Regardless, anyone turning down that much revenue out of principle deserves a lot of credit.

uoaei 4y ago
That sounds like a pretty ideologically-motivated form of selection bias.