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

 If Giant Bomb were to have a premium service offering early Beta to games and perhaps a few other exclusive feature, would you subscribe to it? I'm talking about actual exclusive stuff, not videos that should be available to everyone but kept exclusive for the sake of the subscribers.

Perhaps...

Most likely. Especially if they offered HD video content.

Not unless a feature was constant ustreaming from everyone's iphone

Probably.

No.
I love this site but, The only reasons I come here are 

1. Gaming Info
2. Gaming Forums

" No.
I love this site but, The only reasons I come here are 

1. Gaming Info
2. Gaming Forums

Those can be found at countless other sites for free, And if they made either of those 2 cost anything I would go elsewhere. If they were to add features that required payment, I'm pretty sure it would be nothing I couldn't live without. But if it was something completely awesome, That I couldn't even think of right now, Then maybe, I guess. "

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

If it lets me use PayPal.

" @Coombs said:

" No.
I love this site but, The only reasons I come here are 

1. Gaming Info
2. Gaming Forums

Those can be found at countless other sites for free, And if they made either of those 2 cost anything I would go elsewhere. If they were to add features that required payment, I'm pretty sure it would be nothing I couldn't live without. But if it was something completely awesome, That I couldn't even think of right now, Then maybe, I guess. "

That's what I mean though, what IGN is doing right now is keeping videos and info that obviously should be available to everyone but is kept exclusive for the sake of subscribers. That's exactly what I'd want Giant Bomb NOT to do. I'm talking about actual things like exclusive betas and other swag. Stuff that's above and beyond what an average user would expect. "

" If it lets me use PayPal. "

Depending on the features. except that, probably not. 

It really depends on what made it a "premium service."  If it meant HD-video and/or other exclusive features, then I'd be interested.  If they take away features that have been free for since the site launched, then there would be problems.

FUCK YEAH I WOULD!

As people have said, there is stuff that is the same for free on other websites. I enjoy Giant Bomb but wouldn't really pay for it. If it was 10 bucks for life like Something Awful then maybe. MAYBE but, fuck anything else.

It would have to be something completely awesome and groundbreaking.
 
Although I would pay like, 2, maybe even 5, dollars a month to use their site if they were in trouble of shutting down or something.  I love this place.

Sure, why not?!

Depends on the features. I'm looking forward to see how they handle subscriptions.

I think this has been discussed before when Jeff brought it up at the last PAX.But to answer your question no. I never see the benefits of subscription to a website worth the cost.

It really depends. To be honest, I haven't been using the site as much as I used to so at the moment I probably wouldn't subscribe.

Id like to say it would depend on the features for me, but I love the site so much that I know I couldnt resist hitting the Subscribe button as soon as it was there.
 
I would have full confidence the guys would keep it cheap, and do something to make it worth it.
 
It would help them finance more equipment, travel assignments, and enhancements to the site. 
 
I think the idea of returning some of the subscription money via competitions and prizes, with a cheap sub fee... say $3 a month would be fine. Add some early beta access, a discount at the store, maybe even access to help test new site componants and most people would be cheering. 
 
I know the guys have said before they dont want to add a user video upload feature, as its essentially paying for storage of millions of not very good videos. They could make that a paid service for people that want that. It would cover their costs, and the people who really want that will get it, which might lead to better quality user content. I would like that this be an additional fee to the sub though, so its not built in to the sub price for people that dont want that. Gear the price to turn a little profit, and put the money into competitions and prizes for the videos, and development of site tools.

I really don't see what they could possibly put as premium stuff. I come to GB for:
 
- quick looks
- achievement comparisons
- bombcast
- the wiki
- forums
- mailbag
- Endurance Runs
 
None of that would be premium content. Quite honestly, I think Giant Bomb is the best gaming website around in terms of total content and original content. And the genuinely funny humor. The staff of GB are irreplaceable.

Depends what it is and how much... Yes I would.

Ain't got no online distributable cash.

No, I have a strong aversion to paying for things.
 
I would also feel very upset if they tried to do it. We get all of this great stuff now for free, it would be kinda jerkish to make us pay for it in the future. I know they need to get paid, but that's what their ads are for.  We don;t really want this place turning into that other site.

I really don't know. It would be a tough decision.

" As Ryan says "No thank you sir!"  UNLESS it means special Johnny V treatment and free Swedish candy then I'm all for a subscription. "

It'd have to be something extremely well done to make me put up cash for a website's features.

There was a thread about this a while back.  I said no then.  I still say no now.  Premium stuff has the potential of separating communities.  If they were able to make a premium setup that didn't divide the community, then I'd be all for it.

Dumb idea, lets keep things free.

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Definitely. I'd love to support the guys. And I would hope that such a service would be very feature limited - I wouldn't want to see the community segregated by different feature-sets.

"FUCK YEAH I WOULD! "

Premium pack -

   
 Early betas 
 Special forum to talk to the staff 
 HD video 
Edit all Wiki's no acception needed 
Jeff, Ryan, Brad and Vinny sex scandal video. 
 
IM IN.

Nah

Depends on the price and what features were available to premium users. Knowing the guys though, if they were to even do a premium service, they wouldn't cut out core features of GiantBomb that are on right now just for premium users, if anything it'd be extra stuff on top of what it is now.

Maybe.....problem with beta is that then for us Europeans that they'll need beta keys for our region. When it comes down to it, their already offering everything I want from this site (except savefiles....), so unless they withdraw stuff I dont see the need to pay. I'd pay for more Bombcasts though........

Yeah I would.

Absolutely not, I won't even pay for xboxlive in a billion years, I won't pay for premium stuff here.

if it was guaranteed invitations to the big betas i would definitely consider it :)

Yup. The fellas need to pay the bills.

I would pay for behind the scenes videos.