If Giant Bomb were to have a premium service, would you subscribe?

No I wouldn't pay for it at all

No. I don't have any money for myself, let alone for anything else.

I don't know. Interesting question.

B. If it's just what they have now, then no way.

I personally would want a pleasure bot 5000 as an incentive...

I hate paying for things, but yeah I probably would

No. I said no in the previous thread about this and I say no again this thread. Premium content would only divide the community and ruin everything that is good here at Giant Bomb.

Hell no. I love GB just as much as the next guy, but I'll never pay for a subscription to a website. Even if it's just optional bonus crap. Never.

no

If it was either that or get the page swamped in advertisements sure. But not for extra features. I come here for the quick looks. Even my mates at work find them entertaining and they don't even play video/computer games.

No. I don't think it's worth money to subscribe to a website. GB is great and I'm sure I get on here more then I should but that still doesn't warrant spending money.

Yes, I would.

if it meant they got their ps3 and steam integration on par with 360 then sure

Yes, if they offer 24 hour live chat with Vinny.

If I have a job at the time...right now I'm just a lazy college student, but hopefully I can become a lazy college student with a job

I don't think so, but it'd really depend on what it offered.
Simply having benefits, like what IGN provides really isn't enough.  And I'm not sure what would be.

I suppose it would depend on how much it costs, and what features they were offering.

Depends on what it was.

" I'm pretty sure I I've answered this question before.  "

Probably not.

Depends on the price, to be honest.

We can all agree that Giant Bomb is a community centric website and making it content based will just be silly. Giant Bomb doesnt even care about exclusive/ early reviews yet. Were still small potatoes. GB will never become another IGN or Gamespot becouse its well.... A bit unprofessional. But thats what makes it great. Theres a lot of love put into the website and doesnt feel industrial or just about clicks and ads.

" Yes, if they offer 24 hour live chat with Vinny. "

I would pay $5 a month to sit in a ventrillo channel for Star Trek Online with Jeff Gerstmann, if that's what you mean.

I've never even paid for porn.  Why would I pay for features on a video game website?

I paid for the giantbomb app twice. Sure the app isn't as good as I would like but the point is the site was good enough that I felt inclined to give them my money... twice. Hell if I had another ipod I would pay for it a third time.

Hell yes I would! Although I think the bombsquad would never go for it.
If you listen to one of the first bombcast's they had. That's bombcast not the arrow pointing down podcast's. Then you'll find out that they don't really want to go down this route. That they were looking for quite a few different venues of money making that made it free for us. Advertising, selling shirts etc, etc...
 
So yeah, I doubt very much that they'd go for it.

no, i would not. i don't think it would be worth it. i don't subscribe to things like these as i would not use the features that it would give.

I'm a big fan of GB and the community and personalities here and if there were some reasonable benefits, I'd gladly do what I could to support it as long as I'm employed. I like to support a lot of sites that I frequent. Same with podcasts. So the more reasonable the price, the better. But I'd easily pay a couple bucks a year. A magazine subscription is $14/yr usually and you get far more content here.
 
I wouldn't want any unfair benefits over non-contributors, though. In fact, I would just flat out donate to a "beer and soda fund" every once in awhile and get nothing in return. Cool with me.

Giant Bomb isn't ran by corpate assholes duder.

" @CL60: Dude! You seem to love this site. As I'm typing this your posting total comes to 6,610.
I know they're not a charity or anything and I would never want them to be. But come on, they deserve something don't they?
@Branthog: Completely agree buddy. :-) "

Ya I'd pay if the perks were reasonable which I'm sure they would be.  GB crew seems to be fair like that.

no, probably not.

I am looking for as many excuses as possible to willingly give money to Giant Bomb, so yes. Unquestionably yes, even if it added no features whatsoever.

Maybe. Depends on what would be offered and how much the service would cost. That's a big maybe.

doubt it. there are too many other websites that i could get my info from. 
i would miss the crew though.  the people workin on this site are by far the best around

Yes if they offer "Bombcast After Dark" for subscribers

Yes.

Fuck no. I can't imagine ever paying for video game information. I love the videos and I would be happy to watch ads in them, but I ain't paying for them. I can't imagine GB offering anything that would make it worth paying for. There is too much supply on the internet for that sort of demand.

Honestly, to me is between maybe and no... 
 
Mostly no because, I don't find thrilling having to pay for something where what im getting now is PERFECT..... 
 
I think if they really wanted to make some more money they need to actually do a shop! *thumbs up* i want a hoodie!! :D 

For some odd reason, I still have that GameSpot subscription going.
 -  I lost interest in their weekly show since they switched the format to daily. 
 -  I lost interest in their emblem system because I wasn't able to use the site for months they way I used to do. 
 -  They lost all of their best editors I still saw on their videos a year ago.
 -  The live shows with chat went from frequent to quite non-existant. 
 + When I end up on the site every now and then I save time not trying to watch a video with twice as long ad reel or see some huge background advertisement.
 
If Giant Bomb would have subscription I would just cancel GS in an instant and switch fully to GiantBomb, I've used this site so much more during the last few weeks.
 
Only things tying me to GS is actually the list of games I own which is way too long to import here before I'm fully switching.
 
I would subscribe even without any additional features, just some subscriber mark under my username would be enough. I wouldn't even care to get rid of those ads since they are so subtle and actually most of them are quite funny. One really cool thing Giant Bomb editors could do is make a weekly live Quick Look, could be quite breeze in editor department since they have done tons of live stuff before.
 
I know I could just go clicking those ads every day to make the same effect to the company really but that's something even I'm not gonna do. Accepting support donations from fans would be much better or get some some Giant Bomb merchandise out there.
 
To sum this up: 
Yo guys over there at Giant Bomb! Make the damn subscription plan, I'm not expecting anything in return so take your time with the extra content. I'm 100% sure that I'm not gonna enable that GameSpot ad-fest before you get something I can switch to.

I love this site, and I'd like to think I would subscribe to a premium service, but realistically I would never go through with it.  I don't want to lose money every month for stuff I don't really need. 

Probably if it was cheap enough and included some awesome features.

I just might, dunno at this point.

Depends on the features.