Help keep LegendCup.com going!
Donation Information
- Firstly, THANK YOU for being interested enough to look here! I am happy and humbled that LegendCup is worth your consideration!
- LegendCup is independently owned and operated by 1 person using mostly FOSS and some pay-for software, along with help from volunteer developers and community contributions, and fueled by fans for the love of this franchise.
- By supporting the site you are helping to keep alive one of the last independent Monster Rancher fan-sites remaining that isn't owned by a corporate entity making money by serving you ads.
- There are NO ADs. In spite of being pestered by several ad agencies to embed advertisements for monetary gain, I refuse to subject people to this! Any links you see for purchasing the games or promotion of Monster Rancher are manually placed, not an ad, tracking, or monetarily driven outlink.
- There is NO locked/pay-wall content on LegendCup, MRM, or other future archives.
- Instead of locking content behind a pay-wall, Your generous donation helps keep everyone's hard work for LegendCup and other site archives alive for current and future Ranchers!
- You can donate at any time, any amount, single contribution, subscription, or cancel.
Contributor List
A personal huge thanks to the folks listed here.I may figure out a way to integrate donations from PayPal automatically and directly to the site in the future, but until then, I'll use this Google Docs that I’ll manually update for reference. If you've donated and you don't see your name (If you chose not to be anonymous) just give me time since it is a manual update for now.
Domain, Hosting and other costs
- LegendCup is registered with GoDaddy, and is hosted on HostMonster. Domain Registrar plus Hosting fees are billed annually, sometimes I can negotiate a discount with HostMonster for a billing period which is around $300.
- The games and Console(s) over the years, and associated media and peripherals.
- Various Softwares or software subscriptions related to managing the site, and the community. I use FOSS for many things, but some things are recurring such as MSOffice, Discord Bot.
- Thousands of hours of personal time, and Hundreds of hours of developer time, and other volunteer/community member's time.
Donation information and how it will be used
Note: Paypal takes roughly 2.9% + $0.50 for each donation.Smaller donations are more heavily penalized by PayPal's take, but larger donations have less taken out than other places such as Patreon.
- A single $5 donation covers about 1.5% of costs ($5/mo about 15%/yr) of solely website related costs.
- $5/mo could also contribute towards other subscription services, like MR Discord bots, MS Office 365 etc. (FOSS apps are used often, but sometimes there's no substitutes)
- Donations can also help cover other Monster Rancher adjacent expenses indirectly for the website, or related to the MR community.
- You can donate any amount, Once or as many times as you like!
- Your donation will help pay for hosting and domain registration fees.
- Yearly Costs Met: If donations accrue to an amount to pay for a year of domain registration and hosting, it will be applied as soon as possible and extend the current subscription, regardless if the current year(s) are already paid for.
- Yearly Costs not met: If Renewal time comes around but there is not enough to pay for domain registration and hosting, the donated pool will be applied and I will pay the rest out of pocket.
- Excess donations may be kept for future fees, or used to fund commissions for art, coding, or other site related assets, or to purchase Monster Rancher titles and related hardware.
A brief history
- In 1999/2000 what would become LegendCup was started on a free Yahoo Geocities site with ads.
- In 2001 I officially registered LegendCup as a domain and purchased hosting without the pains of forced advertising for a clean website.
- Since that time I have paid for all fees out of pocket, even for things beyond the site (PO box rental, replacement consoles, etc.), and now for archival purposes of MRM, and continued efforts for up to date data on original and new Monster Rancher games on LegendCup.
- Further still, with the Passing of Lisa Shock (Owner of Monster Rancher Metropolis) it was easy to see how quickly a whole community’s effort could be lost.
- Additionally, other fansites like the MRBC website were taken offline due to continued costs.
- Now both sites are archived in a single place, alongside of LegendCup, and I would happily accept any patronage to ease the burden.
This page was last modified: February 26 2024