Vooks is now 14 – Celebrate with us, Support us!

For 14 years Vooks has been providing Australian Nintendo you, the fans with everything you need to know about what’s going on in the world of Nintendo. We hope we’re doing a good job!

As today is the 14th Birthday of the site we thought we’d take the time to let you know of some cool things we’re doing and keep you in the loop. Usually we’ll do a history of the site or something like that but you know the story, we’re here and frankly we’ve been too busy actually running the site to do anything, this little story is will have to do.

We cover the latest news, we review games, we have a podcast and create videos and do our best to make sure you’re educated and aware. Vooks is more than just a site with news, we’re also a community. Whether it’s our forum, social media pages or in real life. Vookians have made real friendships both online and offline thanks to our site.

All of the Vooks team and many of the members we have are true friends to me, our team donates their time, effort and even their own money to making the site what it can be and I can’t even put into words how much that means to me.

Vooks takes a lot of money to run and a lot of time. Time we have, money we do not.

When I started Vooks, the site was on free ISP hosting, we moved to a real host in 2003. Now 14 years later, I’m not a teenager anymore, don’t live at home with my parents and have a mortgage – being an adult is expensive. Have you seen the cost of meat these days?

The entire time Vooks has been running we’ve never run at a profit, if I wanted to do this to make money I would have quit a long time ago. We have banner adverts (that no one clicks on anymore) but the income from that doesn’t come anywhere close to what we need to keep the lights on.

So this year we’re doing something to help us continue to do what we’re doing for many more years. We’re launching some T-Shirts for you to buy and as well as a Patreon page.

Firstly T-Shirts

This has been asked for by you guys for a long time, so we finally did and not only do you get a nice shirt out of it you get to support the site. Each shirt will help out run the site, the bulk of the cost goes to Spreadshirt who we have the store through but we’ve put a small commission on the top ($2-$3) to keep the shirts cheap and so you can support us.

Why not buy one now?

We’ll also be running a competition in the future for user created designs, the Vooks logo is just a logo. We’d like to see the community create some stuff, we’ll figure out those details later.

Secondly the Patreon

Patreon is like an ongoing Kickstarter, we’re not asking for a sum of money and making a product. Vooks is a product, its cost is on going and so a Patreon is perfect for this and we want to see if anyone wants to help us out. You don’t have to, we’re never going to charge anyone to read our site and we don’t want people to give if they can’t support themselves first! The ongoing money this Patreon will go back directly into the bills and to ease my poor wallet.

Click here to support us, we might even defeat the empire.

So if you like what we do and want a nice shirt, maybe grab a shirt? If clothing isn’t you thing, and hey who likes to wear clothes then perhaps support us on Patreon.

Thanks for reading, now and always.