If you’ve been looking at MGC for the past 24 hours, you may have noticed a new Donation Page linked at the top of the site. I wanted to talk a little about what we’re doing, and why.

Over the past 3 and a half years, MGC has provided services to millions of Xbox 360 Community members to share their gaming history, compare themselves with friends, and generally be a useful part of the gaming space. In that time, we’ve seen the influence MGC has had, especially evidenced by the 14 Million GamerCards we serve daily.

But we’re not done yet — or at least, we don’t want to be! There are still a number of great things that we’re hard at work developing, including a re-release of a popular feature that closed last fall. To do that, however, we need your help.

MyGamerCard is attempting to raise money to obtain a new machine that will run our database - the central point of the site. The database houses your current stats, history, achievement percentages, etc. Without it, there simply is no MGC. The current server not only has limitations for growth, but was on loan from a company who is requesting it be returned.

Every little bit goes a long way. And if you think about it in gaming terms, it’s like buying a new game and having free DLC for life - always providing new features and experiences! Even just $5 from a portion of our visitors for one day would fully cover this.

Thank you to those who have already helped out! For those who donate while logged into their MGC Account, I’ll be sure to provide early access to some of these new features as they become ready for use; let me know if you have any further ideas!

If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to discuss here. If you have a direct interest in providing support outside of PayPal (perhaps employees of a hardware company are reading? ), you can contact me directly at donate [@at@] mygamercard [.dot.] net.

Location: http://www.mygamercard.net/donate/2009_Spring_Donation.php

Posted March 25th, 2009 at 03:23 pm by Jason Young [Morgon]