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Talad

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Ads, what you think of it?
« on: June 23, 2010, 05:13:05 pm »
I was waiting to see a post on the ads we added, but since it's not coming, then I will make one :)

We are testing google ads on the main web site and forums. We tried to make them as small as possible, and less invasive as possible, so those will not disturb your PS experience. We have no idea at the moment if those are going to generate any good money, but I think we will give those a try. The money (if any) will be used to advertize more PS, to buy hardware and bandwidth when needed.

The program works in such a way that it rewards money on clicks, but they are very smart, so they really look for unique visitors each day. Also we cannot ask in any way people to click on those, or click those ourselves.

We will test those for few weeks and see if they are worth the trouble or not.

What you think of the ads? Are those bad visually? Do you think those detract from your PS experience?

Thanks.
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Re: Ads, what you think of it?
« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2010, 05:23:06 pm »
The ad on the page so far is small and fairly unnoticeable until you realize that Lord of the Rings MMO has nothing to do with PS. ;) Although I can understand the need to fund PS advertisement, I just hope this won't become the PS project taking one step closer to becoming a generic MMO.
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Re: Ads, what you think of it?
« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2010, 05:39:28 pm »

You may get a dime to a buck and a half per click.
I for one deliberately do not click on ads, but many folks do.

You may benefit more from a per-per-view type of ad arrangement given the volume of traffic you have on your site. in this case your getting paid just to show a banner.


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Re: Ads, what you think of it?
« Reply #3 on: June 23, 2010, 05:49:16 pm »
I say go ahead, I have adblockplus  ;D
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Re: Ads, what you think of it?
« Reply #4 on: June 23, 2010, 05:57:43 pm »
I don't have any problem with ads on the forum pages. Ads are a necessary evil in this world.
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Re: Ads, what you think of it?
« Reply #5 on: June 23, 2010, 08:30:14 pm »
I want a cut of the profit.
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Re: Ads, what you think of it?
« Reply #6 on: June 23, 2010, 09:07:19 pm »
I didn't notice the ads until I read your post...
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Re: Ads, what you think of it?
« Reply #7 on: June 24, 2010, 12:36:08 am »
I hardly noticed it in the corner until I read this.  ;D
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Re: Ads, what you think of it?
« Reply #8 on: June 24, 2010, 12:53:37 am »
I did actually notice the ads and at first I was going to report a bug that maybe someone possibly google has hacked our forums and placed an ad there lol.
Well anyways this can drive many issues if you advertise PS more, that means more players that means bandwidth is needed, more servers, and then PS becoming a non-fully free game no more as it will need more ads to support the players. It gets rather complicated and if you put ads up people will be wanting PS finished a lot more faster that it is at this rate, but then you could get some more devs out of the advertising, so yeah very complicated.
I don't mind ads so long as they don't go any bigger than they are, and I do not see them IG thanks.
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Re: Ads, what you think of it?
« Reply #9 on: June 24, 2010, 01:03:00 pm »
Quote from: Vakachehk on June 24, 2010, 12:53:37 am
someone possibly google has hacked our forums and placed an ad there

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Re: Ads, what you think of it?
« Reply #10 on: June 24, 2010, 01:20:22 pm »
Quote from: Geoni on June 24, 2010, 12:36:08 am
I hardly noticed it in the corner until I read this.  ;D

Same here.  Certainly they are not invasive if people aren't even noticing them.   ;)
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Re: Ads, what you think of it?
« Reply #11 on: June 24, 2010, 02:55:43 pm »
Ad very tasteful yet you may want to put it on the left side of the screen so that blind as bats, like myself. who blow up the screen size do not loose it off the right edge of the screen. That's where it was until reading this thread.

Interesting choice of ads it offered me. Nothing about gaming yet stuff that was of interest to me; so it makes me wonder if they are ip specific as opposed to the site content. It offered me a link to MySQL's home site which was immediately clicked because it was of interest not because it felt the right thing to do.  ;)

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Re: Ads, what you think of it?
« Reply #12 on: June 24, 2010, 03:27:52 pm »
Go ahead; it will help rake in money for you guys. That means one step closer to the Hammerwielder models!!
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Re: Ads, what you think of it?
« Reply #13 on: June 24, 2010, 06:16:38 pm »
Ok, so I clicked on the ad, reloaded the page and click again .. like 10 times.

That should get you folks started. You should have about 5 to 10 dollars now.
Hell, if everyone went nuts and clicked them ads you might have enough cash to eat out once in a while.

Well, thats my donation to planeshift. Dont spend all in one place now.

Everyone else should do the same.

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Re: Ads, what you think of it?
« Reply #14 on: June 24, 2010, 06:50:27 pm »
Quote from: Rigwyn on June 24, 2010, 06:16:38 pm

Ok, so I clicked on the ad, reloaded the page and click again .. like 10 times.

That should get you folks started. You should have about 5 to 10 dollars now.
Hell, if everyone went nuts and clicked them ads you might have enough cash to eat out once in a while.

Well, thats my donation to planeshift. Dont spend all in one place now.

Everyone else should do the same.



Rigwyn has the idea, when I'm bored, I'm going to spam click ads over and over  \\o//

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« Last Edit: June 24, 2010, 07:56:38 pm by Talad »
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