Here at PlanetSide Universe we are 100% community run and supported. This means that we have no advertisements and all of our support comes from donations and from the PSU Staff. As PlanetSide 2 draws closer and interest in the game spreads, our costs are rising as expected. That being said, our costs are actually relatively low compared to back in the early 2000's when it was well over $500 a month to run PSU and all of our associated services. Our main cost at this time is bandwidth that is steadily rising. Last month alone we were just a bit under one terabyte of data transfer for the month. Modern services like Twitch.tv are helping us quite a bit letting us offset the cost of our live AGN streams whereas back in the day this was our own cost.

So we have decided to do a donation drive with a goal of $500! This money supports all of our services, domain registrations and any other costs that may arise as part of operating PSU's services. All donators will get marked as contributors on the forums and those who donate $100 or more will receive a gold username on the forums. Contributors are also able to see post counts and do a few other small things. We plan to add more features for contributors at some point in the near future. If you have suggestions for contributor features let us know!

Hit up the PayPal donation button over on the left side of the page or in this news post! Be sure that when you donate you use the same e-mail as you have registered here on PSU so we know who to mark as a contributor.

Update: We have surpassed our goal of $500 by $25 in 56 minutes! Thank you for your support!!! We have removed the donation widget from this news post, but you can still find it on the left side of the screen. We will update the donate link and have it available at all times. If you donated we will get your forum account updated before the end of the day!