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Title: Subscription based web sites?
Post by: Revvin on January 22, 2002, 02:09:10 PM

Back last year (maybe 2?) Combatsim went pay for view, now this month Migman has made his flight sim museum subscription based also ($24 for 6 months access)

Is this the future of the internet once the home of independant free advice, a step to the future where ebooks will rule the day and maybe we'll be downloading our daily news?

Do any of you subscribe to any sites and if not would you? and how much would you expect or be willing to pay?

Title: Subscription based web sites?
Post by: moose on January 22, 2002, 02:29:18 PM

no one even talks about combatsim anymore

they lost a lot of readers with that pay bs. including me

Title: Subscription based web sites?
Post by: Nifty on January 22, 2002, 03:00:37 PM

this is related only in terms of previously free websites becoming pay, but yesterday I was looking for commitments from college football recruits, and http://www.fansonly.com who I've always used for this information has started requiring "premium" subscriptions to do what they've always offered for free.  I looked around, and any comprehensive website I found that had searchable databases for this subject required a subscription.  Basically I think they are seeing they can't turn a profit on banners alone, and they're testing whether or not they can get enough subscriptions to turn a profit.

Needless to say, I did not subscribe to any of these sites.  It's not worth $10/month to find out who's committed to play football at what college.  I can find out after national signing day.

I had a insider account at espn.com awhile back, but that wasn't worth the money either.  *shrugs*  usually anything that's subscription based, you can find the info free if you look long enough.  Except exclusive pr0n pix, but even then, there's plenty of free substitutes.  ;)

Title: nope
Post by: airspro on January 22, 2002, 03:21:05 PM

I had combatsim link on my web site , it went pay took it off . I think most went to simhq ?

Title: Subscription based web sites?
Post by: Udie at Work on January 22, 2002, 03:33:38 PM

Combatsim was my homepage for a long time.  I started all my surfing there until they went pay.  Now simhq.com is my portal.  Great site, I'm sure they deserve to be paid for thier work, but it's just not something I'm willing to pay for.  Too easy to do without .