Option to support ScummVM via Patreon?

electricsheep82 · Post by **electricsheep82** » Wed Oct 22, 2014 5:13 pm

I know there's the button to send a paypal donation to the project, but I think I and a lot of other people would probably end up giving more if it was possible to have a small monthly contribution automatically take place every month. Of course, I don't know how much money you even need...

Post by **digitall** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 5:09 pm

We have had issues in the past with Paypal Donations, so I'm not sure we would want add another payment / donation provider and have a repeat of these problems:
http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?p=12891

Also since Patreon uses Paypal for the depositing account, I'm not sure this would make a difference.

It is possible to do a recurring donation / payment with Paypal AFAIK:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/177 ... ned-option

So it may just be a case of making a modification to our Paypal button code to add that as an option for the user to choose...

Post by **digitall** » Fri Oct 24, 2014 5:18 pm

I can't comment on "how much we need" directly, but we would make an announcement if we were fundraising.

http://wiki.scummvm.org/index.php/Devel ... r_Benefits notes some of the uses of donations.

lazylazyjoe · Post by **lazylazyjoe** » Sun Oct 26, 2014 5:02 am

digitall wrote:We have had issues in the past with Paypal Donations, so I'm not sure we would want add another payment / donation provider and have a repeat of these problems:
http://forums.scummvm.org/viewtopic.php?p=12891

I remember that, it was a while ago. They basically tried to ban emulators and/or programs that let you use software for systems other than originally intended which is such a wide open hole.

I would like to add that A bitcoin acct would be a nice addition for donations. A Flattr acct would be nice too.