I dont have a problem with that. He's just trying to get more people involved. He can afford it so it's fine. 

For me, thats hard to say. Ive been away from Vizzed for a long time, and upon returning now seeing all the announcements, theres a fine line to define whether he goes overboard or not. If he was anywhere over 300, maybe its a little too much? I left out of lack of interest about a year or so ago, so by seeing he only had about between 100-200, it might not be so bad.

Like others said, its good to have the admin letting us know up to date about these things. Its also good he has this site still kicking, because now Im interested in downloading the ROM to play the games again.

I'm not sure how it's a negative having someone that does giveaways and the like. He does so to try to get more activity in a certain area. People complain about not having enough viz, these are the prime examples on how easy it is to get.

I personally think its a GREAT idea that he's starting to give cash prizes away for some of the contests.

The Viz competitions and giveaways for Viz are not much as he can never run out of viz, the real life giveaways can only be given to people in the US, or anywhere else it is allowed by the law. Since I'm from Australia, I can not receive these items due to the law, and vizzed isn't above or in the law so they can't do anything to help me.

I don't think that it's too much, it increases participation, which is an important part of any website.

PixelBrick : Wha....what the heck are you doing!?!? You're gonna ruin everything! 

I think he's doing fine with the monthly contests. Winning cash for playing games; that's pretty cool stuff! But hey, more is always better! The donations have been the same for a while though. I'm surprised their isn't 5 - 10 dollar donations everyday, I'm gonna donate about $15 when my paypal has money in it.

I guess it would seem pretty normal to me considering it would earn this site more popularity.

SetoKaiba1025 : Would you rather real money that you can buy something with or virtually worthless viz? 

Unlike a lot of site owners, I'm not greedy. A lot of site owners out there are in it just for the money and they could care less about their users (as to why you see so many site's with fees of some sort or excessive ads).

Since I don't invest money into the RGR Plugin anymore, I have some extra spending cahs and I owe it to the users who have been loyal to the site and I think giving away cash prizes is a great way to give back to the community. Plus, it encourages way more users to participate in the competitions and that makes the competitions more fun to compete in.

I'll be giving out a lot of money in the Pokemon contest but I doubt I'll hold a competition of this size more than once or twice a year. I do have something special planned for one of next months' RGR competitions which I'm pretty excited about, it'll be the first time the prize isn't cash but something that I'll actually ship to the user who wins.

Davideo7 : Well said. I'm not against the contests, but I was new to Vizzed, and saw a lot of good contests. I'm not used to being on a site with staff members that wren't greedy. <:/

No I don't think David does to many give aways because not that many members that enter the give away contests that he does.

PixelBrick : I don't think he gives away too much. He makes sure that you earn your keep when you're going for this kind of stuff, so it's definitely reasonable that he does these things because there definitely is a lot of work that must be put into some of the things he asks of us.

Course not. It's a good thing he interacts with us. He actually has a relationship with his users, unlike most website owners, who are greedy and most likely dislike their users.

goodboy : I use to have more of a relationship with the users before the site kept be so busy, I miss having the time to set aside to hang out with the users of the site, now days I'm so busy but I do still manage to find time to interact with users once in a while, compete in netplay tournaments, etc.

Which reminds me, I need to do 1 or 2 more netplay game nights before summer ends, the one I did early June was a lot of fun.

I have started to like all of his giveaways! One day he might do one that I am good at!