Why do you pay for your Giant Bomb Premium Membership?

I feel we take the internet for granted. Its a new medium and very exiting at first but we gotta understand that creating content isnt free.

I regard Giant Bomb as my gaming "Newspaper". And thus I have no quarrels with a subscription

I want to fund the crazy that drives this website. I need no other reason.

A and B.

Both A and B, but mostly A. While the non-subscriber content (quick looks and the bombcast) are what I mostly come to the site for, the subscriber stuff is pretty damn awesome as well. Also, if you want to see more good stuff on the internet, you have to be willing to put some money towards it to show the people in charge that its worth having around.

HD player, HTML, and the subscriber exclusive videos / back-stage portions. Not to mention just support of their humour, exploits, and whimsies.

I dont know 

It's a combination of the first three, but mostly just to support the crew. I never really took advantage of the subscriber features and video downloads until a while later.

Mine is something like A-D. I support these guys because I watch most of what they do. I really enjoy the dumb premium things, including some of the live shows' archives. I don't get much chance to watch them live. And also for the ability to download the videos.

Also GB is awesome.

For me its mostly A and B. I want to support the site and I enjoy most of the subscriber videos. The amount of time I spend watching videos and streams makes paying $50 not too much of a big deal.

All of them except E. 

Both A and B.

Videos of course. Turned off cable because I don't really watch TV anymore. This was a much better substitute (and a lot a cheaper). Now I don't feel bummed out with a premium member only video pops up and I can't watch it.

I enjoy the perks and like to support things I consume. Also, it's better for my health than the junk food and/or candy that money would go to instead.

Because Brad's beard

How is all of the above not an option?

The guys are the reason I got more in to video games and started to use gamespot and giantbomb. Before that I would rarely play games and buy mostly due to price or on sale.

B, which is really easy decision because A.

A, B, C, and to a lesser extent D are all part of it.

The major factor you missed, however, is the ladies love a man who supports GB.

This website has given me a lot: information, education, got me out of a depressed funk, a girlfriend I love. The guys specifically have done a lot for me personally, too. I'm a member for as long as the site exists.

Personal answer that isn't relevant to anyone else, but that's my reason.

A mixture of A & B... and to satisfy the little philanthropist which is hidden deep inside me...

To support the staff. I watch the videos but I just want to make sure that this site stays around for as long as possible.

My practical answer is A and B, but I picked Other because my real reason is to support what Giant Bomb represents in the landscape of gaming coverage. I always feel like I get a straighter version of facts here, and this site feels humanized because the Bomb Crew are so involved. That, with great laughs and a really creative community. Jeff's goal to have a video of every game just reinforces that these guys really care about this.

@Superkenon said:

B, which is really easy decision because A.

Yeah, this is pretty much it for me. I don't have enough money to simply support them with, but I can justify it with the exclusive videos.

Over the last few months I have started looking at less Giantbomb website features. Mostly because i can't pretend to be working while watching them at work. I got the membership because I loved the podcast and whenever i need something to watch Giantbomb is there. Got the membership just to support. Don't watch any of the subscriber only stuff.

because i like what they do.

To Support the Staff First and then for the Live Streams, RPCGs are basically worth the subscription alone.

Everything else you mentioned is just bonus, I love this site

So great to watch'em in the living room on the TV. I have a Nielsen survey, but it'll be empty unless I can let them know that I'm watchin' Giant Bomb, Netflix, and the new Funimation app.

Since the beginning, I did it all for the content (yeah!)

A and B. I think that the subscriber content is worth it in isolation, but I also believe in supporting stuff I like and that over the years they have easily earnt the subscription fee in free content over the years.

For 24 hours of Halo and #TeamBrad.

For 28:05 and Jonathan Frakes.

For three, four, five hour live Bombcasts and Power

In a nutshell, I do it because it is a website about video games that has the best staff in the trade, and the best community that supports them.

I had the money to spare, I want to support the site, and I thought it was a good deal. Turns out it isn't that good of a deal and the MOH quick look really soured the GB experience for me. But whatever. It was still money well spent considering how much I've gotten out of the site over the years. They all just need to lighten up and drop the cynicism a wee bit.

I don't.

Mostly for the mobile site which is only valuable to me because I love just about everything the GB dudes put out.

Subscriber videos and streams, and downloading my favourite ones. 
 
Also, little Vinny Jr. has to eat.

Combo of A, B, C and D for me. Download video options and mobile site are a god send when I'm working nights!!

I voted for B, but it's honestly A, B, and C for me.

I hate money and this seemed better than burning it or using it as toilet paper.

A & B.

Because Team Brad.

This site is awesome and gives me hours of content

They deserve my support and the amount they ask for is pretty paltry to me

A. I loved watching the guys explain/goof around/etc from the many quick look videos I watched. When I finally signed up as a member, immediately became a premium member to show my support.

Tons of awesome video content and I've been following them since Gamespot.

Oh and they had me discover Cards Against Humanity

Just for that... SIGN ME UP!

I'm to lazy to search for a cancel option.

Because I hope this is the future of the internet.

I originally donated just to support the guys. They're an awesome bunch of people with really outstanding personalities but then the content that came a long was really awesome. I love the flight crew stuff along with random PC game. After the move back to CBS I wasn't too sure what was going to happen and just let my membership expire. I loved GB for being GB but when things like this happen, you can never be too sure no matter how much one person says opposite. Just look at what happened with AOL and its 2 major sites. They lost a lot of people because of certain changes and I was worried that may have happened to GB but I'll hand it to the guys, they've made the place their own and still continue to do what we all love so for that, I will continue to subscribe.

I subbed through 2013 when they were still Whiskey Media. Then I heard Tested didn't get any of that money. In any case, that's not my problem till BIG LIVE LIVE SHOW LIVE IN 2013 y'all!

Forum Superiority

A, B, & C for me. It's great being able to download the videos in HD at school and watch them when I get home, the value proposition for $5 a month for what's typically 6+ hours of premium content is great (and that's excluding TNT archives), and the general content put out between the QLs and the Bombcasts is so great that I feel the guys are well deserved of the money (especially when things like the capture hardware at the old office was purchased to do a SNES Marathon). I guess the big draw really is just monetary value, though. It costs almost $10 here to see a movie, and I'd say that to most people, that seems like a fairly reasonable price. Well, I generally find the premium videos more amusing than I do most movies that come out, and instead of seeing half of one movie in a month, I'm getting three or four premium videos that are movie-length, if not longer, and the archives of TNT which I never get to see live. So, for the amount of amusement I get out of the videos, it's very well worth the money.

Oh, and no ads is nice.

These guys have provided me with excellent content and entertainment since I started following them 2002-2003. Since I use adblock to surf the internet, I feel kind of obligated to pay them back. Literally I have spend hundreds, if not thousands of hours consuming their content during the past 10 years; paying them 50 bucks a year is the least I can do. Plus the premium content is pretty rad.