GBAtemp Community Check In
As a site GBAtemp has been around for more than 20 years. Starting as a place to share the latest GBA ROMs and later evolving into the forums we know today, we’re a site that lives and dies by its community, and it’s the larger community I’m hoping to reach out to today.
What I’m wanting from this is to see the general thoughts and feelings of the folks that log into the site daily, especially when it comes to reviews, news, and editorial content. The aim of this is to use the feedback we get to better focus our content and hopefully write things people enjoy both reading and engaging with, as well as covering more topics people are genuinely interested in. I'm really wanting this to be an ongoing effort to have the front page better reflect the unique nature of the site, and that starts with this. If you've got any thoughts, you can either reply to this topic, or if you're happy to provide some more guided feedback, @shaunj66 has put together a short feedback form that you can find below. Anybody filling this out will receive 100 XP on the site for their participation, so please do check this out.
Feedback FormPlease note XP is awarded manually and may take a few days to appear on your account.
I will take a moment to clear the air on a few topics I’ve seen come up over time on the forum, if only to save people asking and speculating going forwards. As an editorial team we aren’t compensated for our contributions to the site, be it posting news, bespoke editorial content, or reviews. While we are usually able to keep the things we’ve reviewed, we aren’t paid anything from those providing the items or game codes, nor are we incentivised to score things highly. Each reviewer tackles a game or hardware review as they see fit, with the score being their own decision. The only time I’m aware of where this hasn’t been the case was with our Tears of the Kingdom review, which Costello summarised here for those curious about that.
In terms of revenue streams for the site, GBAtemp is funded by a mixture of account upgrades and advertisements (these provided via Playwire). Sponsored posts have been run in the past, but where they were posted they were clearly marked as such. As things stand today we don’t run sponsored content, nor to we use affiliate links with items we review or cover more generally.
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I also want to thank everybody above who supports the site monetarily, but also those that just keep coming back and contributing. Whether you financially support the site or not, you are an important part of what keeps things running, and I do want to acknowledge that.
If anybody has any questions about the things I’ve said above or about how things run behind the scenes in general, by all means post them too. I’ve always tried to be transparent where people have asked questions, and I’m happy to answer anything to the extent of my knowledge.
