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From the FAQ: Advertising paid for rent, wages, health insurance, utilities, all the normal stuff that you pay for when you have fourteen souls working togethe

From the FAQ: Advertising paid for rent, wages, health insurance, utilities, all the normal stuff that you pay for when you have fourteen souls working together. That money keeps the lights on while we do the things people expect from us: thrice weekly content drops, two annual shows, the scholarships, Child's Play, etc.

Zimahl 14y ago
> two annual shows, the scholarships, Child's Play The shows make money, otherwise they wouldn't do them. By most accounts they make a lot of money. PAX Prime 2011 had 70k attendees (according to Wikipedia) and at $65 a pop that's a hefty (~$4.5 million) in revenue not to mention what exhibitors pay (which can't be cheap for the target audience). They make more than enough money off of this to go ad free. The scholarships are their problem, the comic reader gets nothing out of those except warm fuzzies. Child's Play should be able to maintain itself on low overhead and a non-profit status. It should cost them a minimal amount of money and any it does the company can directly write off.
- mkaltenecker 14y ago
  Tim Schafer said “That much money for Pax Prime?” when discussing the budget (more specifically, which non-wage stuff to cut or leave in) for the Double Fine Adventure in the latest episode of the documentary.
- gerts 14y ago
  Raise the price of a PAX ticket $15 to take a bite out of the scalpers, and boom, $1 million.
jere 14y ago
At the risk of sounding like Scrooge: I would assume most people think of Penny Arcade as the thrice weekly "content drops" (while viewing the rest as peripheral) and it certainly doesn't take 14 people to draw a comic. Asking the community for $1 million every single year to draw a comic seems a bit steep. I'm not saying it's not worth it. I probably will contribute, but it feels like a lot of for a small thing.
- cube13 14y ago
  >At the risk of sounding like Scrooge: I would assume most people think of Penny Arcade as the thrice weekly "content drops" (while viewing the rest as peripheral) and it certainly doesn't take 14 people to draw a comic. I get the feeling that they want to change this perception, especially with the recent hire of Ben Kuchera to write full time news and commentary for the Penny Arcade Reports site.
  - jere 14y ago
    Crap. I don't know if I'm just blind or lazy or both, but I don't think I noticed the top navigation bar that has the PA Report until now (it's really subtle). Anyway, I think you're probably right.
    - gerts 14y ago
      It's bizarrely under-promoted now, but PA made a big deal when they launched PA Report a while back. http://penny-arcade.com/report/about http://penny-arcade.com/report/about
- InclinedPlane 14y ago
  "Asking the community for $1 million every single year to draw a comic seems a bit steep." Here's the important part though, they're already paying it, and more. That's how advertising works. People buy stuff that's advertised and they pay a higher markup which goes to pay for the advertising which goes to pay for the content. The only difference is that today it's very indirect. What's wrong with direct support?

Zimahl 14y ago

> two annual shows, the scholarships, Child's Play The shows make money, otherwise they wouldn't do them. By most accounts they make a lot of money. PAX Prime 2011 had 70k attendees (according to Wikipedia) and at $65 a pop that's a hefty (~$4.5 million) in revenue not to mention what exhibitors pay (which can't be cheap for the target audience). They make more than enough money off of this to go ad free. The scholarships are their problem, the comic reader gets nothing out of those except warm fuzzies. Child's Play should be able to maintain itself on low overhead and a non-profit status. It should cost them a minimal amount of money and any it does the company can directly write off.

mkaltenecker 14y ago
Tim Schafer said “That much money for Pax Prime?” when discussing the budget (more specifically, which non-wage stuff to cut or leave in) for the Double Fine Adventure in the latest episode of the documentary.
gerts 14y ago
Raise the price of a PAX ticket $15 to take a bite out of the scalpers, and boom, $1 million.

jere 14y ago

At the risk of sounding like Scrooge: I would assume most people think of Penny Arcade as the thrice weekly "content drops" (while viewing the rest as peripheral) and it certainly doesn't take 14 people to draw a comic. Asking the community for $1 million every single year to draw a comic seems a bit steep. I'm not saying it's not worth it. I probably will contribute, but it feels like a lot of for a small thing.

cube13 14y ago
>At the risk of sounding like Scrooge: I would assume most people think of Penny Arcade as the thrice weekly "content drops" (while viewing the rest as peripheral) and it certainly doesn't take 14 people to draw a comic. I get the feeling that they want to change this perception, especially with the recent hire of Ben Kuchera to write full time news and commentary for the Penny Arcade Reports site.
- jere 14y ago
  Crap. I don't know if I'm just blind or lazy or both, but I don't think I noticed the top navigation bar that has the PA Report until now (it's really subtle). Anyway, I think you're probably right.
  - gerts 14y ago
    It's bizarrely under-promoted now, but PA made a big deal when they launched PA Report a while back. http://penny-arcade.com/report/about http://penny-arcade.com/report/about
InclinedPlane 14y ago
"Asking the community for $1 million every single year to draw a comic seems a bit steep." Here's the important part though, they're already paying it, and more. That's how advertising works. People buy stuff that's advertised and they pay a higher markup which goes to pay for the advertising which goes to pay for the content. The only difference is that today it's very indirect. What's wrong with direct support?