Everyone else is full of shit.
Who else hates searching endlessly for a game's soundtrack only to find you have to download the 50+ tracks individually?
This has been rather common in my search for game music so that we may bring you a less than shit podcast. But i have noticed a trend amongst video game music sites. 90% of them claim to have high overhead and either require "donations" in order to download the entire OST in one go, or require you get so many referrals before you can do so. A lame attempt at boosting their numbers. Both are scams and let me tell you all why. I pay $110 a year to have this site. With that $110 comes unlimited bandwidth, storage, domain registration for a year, and a few frills for my benefit. Let me say it again, "one YEAR! A YEAR! 365 DAYS! Less than $10 a month. My car uses more gas in a week than this site does in a month, and i drive a Hyundai.
So one of the reasons for the music section is that i am fed up with the bullshit everyone feeds you, telling you it costs thousands of dollars per month to keep up this site. The sob stories are always amusing, "Unfortunately, due to large server expenses we are no longer able to accomodate mass downloads. To be able to use the mass download feature you are now required to give back to the site." What a load of horseshit. RetroRPG will NEVER ask for, nor will we ever accept donations (advertisers are however welcome). The only time we will accept any form of monetary payment from our listeners is if we offer other products and services outside of the podcast (similar to what Sarcastic Gamer does).
Torrents are sometimes good sources, but there is that pesky detail of the seeder.
We offer you the music as a conselation prize since we do not release as often as we should, and as my way of saying "Fuck you!" to the snake oil salesmen of the video game community.
December 9th, 2009 - 11:40
that is awesome. straight up! i'm a 30 year old from canada and i have listened to all of your shows. i feel you guys are doing a really great job playing through and reviewing games i grew up with. if you're looking for a game to rip through in one episode, check “secret of evermore”. i got this and chrono trigger the same christmas and of course ignored it in favor of CT. when i got around to playing it, i was impressed. is it an rpg? of course it is! and it's fun and short and has a dog.
thanks.
December 9th, 2009 - 11:45
Secret of Evermore is on our list. When we will get to play it is unknown. I (Derek) have been wanting to play it for the past 12 years. I have dabbled in the first hour, but then we started the podcast and I decided to stop so as not to spoil anything for when we finally do get to it.
December 9th, 2009 - 22:06
It's not so much the gaming community as just everything on the internet. If you have a site that gets enough views for you to require a high powered server chances are that you get enough revenue from advertisements.
I love capitalism; it's a great economic system, but god damn does it turn up some stupid shit.
December 10th, 2009 - 04:06
It's not so much the gaming community as just everything on the internet. If you have a site that gets enough views for you to require a high powered server chances are that you get enough revenue from advertisements.
I love capitalism; it's a great economic system, but god damn does it turn up some stupid shit.