TheGrueHunter said:
Apparently all videos on the Escapist are just playing that 45 second ad and everyone's having trouble with it, myself included.
I watched standard definition Zero Punctuation videos for years and years with no subscription, and every time the unskippable ad videos would annoy me the heck out of me. Then i realised the pub club was pocket change for amazing content I have been enjoying for years for free, in inferior quality. Since subbing, i started watching all the other videos posted here and I get way more value out than I ever did before. Even though its fairly self explanatory, I do think the escapist could be doing more to push people towards taking up the sub than it currently does.
tl;dr - don't like the ads, take out the pub club sub!