My heart stays red, and I'm happy to contribute. I've only sold one game with the new system, and I donated. All fine with me really.

I don't see the point of the shops though, what am I getting out of them? I don't care about the ads at the bottom of the page, hell I turn them off, they're irritating. What is the benefit?

I'm guessing from the way you phrased that that you don't actually have any idea what it takes to run a site like this. It's more than just out of pocket costs for servers etc, is your time not worth anything to you? Mine is worth a lot personally, you want to pay me by the hour you'd better have a fat wallet.

Robin, you should just run banner ads if people want to pay you for them. Just make them non-nasty, host and serve them yourself, no scripts and tracking bullshit, and call it a day. That should be good enough for this cottage industry.

Thanks for answering the shop question, makes more sense now. I don't know that it's useful for me, but I'll try and check it out further.