Unseen64 Donations Details - December 2016

 We have updated the donations amount with the funds raised in December 2016, as always you can find all details in our dedicated page: http://www.unseen64.net/how-to-help-u64/donations-details/

Remaining donations in the Preservation Fund:

• Preservation Fund @ November 2016:   
  • Total: $ 2,872.29  (from Patreon + One-Off donations)
• Patreon Donations in December 2016:     
  • +$ 205 .00 Processed  
  • -$ 11.86  CC / Paypal Fees 
  • -$ 10.26 Patreon Fees
• Paypal Donations in  December 2016  
  • Nothing
• Expenses in  December 2016:  
  • Nothing
• New Total for  December 2016:  $ 3,055.17 

Planned expenses:

• About 600 $: Unseen64 server cost 2017 + 24/7 technical support (from August 2017 to August 2018). As the site receive many more visitors than the last year, our server provider had to double the cost  for hosting, bandwidth, technical support and server maintenance. We  will think about changing server in 2017 / 2018 if cost will rise even  more.
   
• 120$ per year = to upgrade our Dropbox space to 1TB  (cost: € 8,25 per month, about 9/10$), then to upload all our Unseen64  archive of images, files, videos and documents in there, to have a  single, dedicated online backup to preserve all those files  and to manage an easy access to them for our patrons. This online  archive will cover all the lost games already published on Unseen64,  plus all the ones that we still did not add to the site yet. We will probably do this in January 2017.
  
• About ??? $ = as we wrote to our Patrons 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 we'll have some free time for extra updates on the site.
  
• About 500 $ = as we wrote to our Patrons 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 Just like in the past gaming magazines have been replaced by gaming websites, now youtubers are taking the mass-market lead for videogames reviews, news and historical researches.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 in early 2017, when we'll have enough time to create about 2 video articles each month.

Available donations in the Preservation Fund:

All remaining donations will be set aside in a "Preservation Fund", for emergency site expenses and to be sure to have enough to pay the site server in the future.

• About $ 1,835.17  =  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!