11/9/07 The Way It Is Options

[BGOAT wiz]

Well bgoat as a clan is now about 5 years old. We started shortly after THPS4 was released in 2002 and have been glitching strong since with over 3,900 glitches thoughout 6 games not including THDJ. Thats pretty good. Well come April 5th the BGOAT.com website will be 5 years old as well. Here's the bad news. I spend about $500 on the websites each year w/ all there hosting and domain names.
Bgoat.com about $250+ a year + $10 for domain name
bgoatclan.com about $120 a year + $10 for domain name
th-glitchdatabase.com about $100 a year + $10 for domain name
th-gd + $10 for domain name

The TH-gd.com name isn;t important but w/e There also some other domain names I woned that I had to give up.

Right now my Wife is out of work but working on getting into another job. that leaves just my income to cover 2 car payments cable, phone, cell phones, and other bills and groceries. She is getting an unemployment check but it doesn't cover much. So come April 5th unless by some miracle I get enough money to cover the websites for the year I will have to close the site down. First will be BGOAT.com then Bgoatclan.com then I believe TH-glitchdatabase.com. Those are the 3 sites I have hosting w/. and of course theres other web domains asscoiated w/ those hosts and those will be gone to. I will not have ad's to deface the website and even if I did they wouldn't make enough to cover the costs. To some this is prolly good news to others such as myself this is very sad news. This website and it's members has brought me a lot of joy and excitment and a feeling of acheivement especially considering it was the sole reason I got to go to Neversoft the past couple years to meet the wonderful people there and even some pro skaters and allowed me to play the games before they were released and get the games for free.
So basically I don't have enough money to keep the website going and still pay all my bills. I am not asking anyone here for there money because it's not your responsibility and we wouldn't be able to raise enough to make a dent anyways. I will make all the backups I can so if by some chance I get money in the future I can put the site back up. But as of right now it looks like the site will close on or shortly after April 5th 2008 unless by some miracle I can get enough money to cover the cost each year. Maybe we can all email Neversoft or activision see if they can help out. But why would they want to help out a site that points out the bugs in there games. I will continue to run the site and add glitches and updates. Speaking of which I will have more glitches added later this afternoon.
Sorry for the bad news guys and NO this is not an early April fools joke. Notice on the main page of bgoat.com the page name is pnb2010. that stands for project new blue and 2010 was a year I had planned on closing the site if Tony Hawk games didn't continue to satisfy. I guess I will have to cut 2 years off that time. If you have $500 that you want to donate fell free to do so. I am posting this now so it will give people a heads up and so people won;t think it's just an April foosl joke if I waited until April.

[HubCAp_]

Neversoft should just let us download the full games early, and let us find all the glitchs (well the major ones atleast) so they can then fix them before the games are officially released.

It could happen

can somebody say pirated. But seriously. Someone would just get it and pirate it all over the internet. Or just get it from the mail.