Poll: Haven't you just had enough of these f*!@&ing popups?!
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Conspiracy, no. But you paint people who use ad blockers like evil cave creatures.Nasrin said:
I will only respond to this single post, in large part because we get tired of repeating ourselves. This website is free for you. The only way we get paid is to run ads. If you advocate adblock, that's essentially the same thing as taking food off of somebody's table.The Lost Big Boss said:
Since this site is privately run and owned, we have the right to enforce our own conduct of behavior. If you don't like it, go hang out somewhere else.
an option to mute the ones that appear before i watch a flash vid would be nice, they always seem to come on stupidly loud and after the fifth time make me want to punch my monitor. Although variety would hurt either, that hahn super dry ad is effing hilarious. (i suggest youtubing it as i think you can only see it depending on your region here)
I'm in no way anti advertising or whatnot but a little more user friendly would be ace
and perhaps you could place your ads so then we could take hilarious screenshots of a black ops dude having his gun fellated by yahtzee or something.
I'm in no way anti advertising or whatnot but a little more user friendly would be ace
and perhaps you could place your ads so then we could take hilarious screenshots of a black ops dude having his gun fellated by yahtzee or something.
No, they're trying to sell pubclub memberships by annoying their userbase into submission.Hammeroj said:
I have issues with the more technical side of things; they upgraded the advertisements like a fucking plague over the last year, but they apparently can't afford an extra web-server (or the connection for one; take your pick) to handle the massive bandwidth influx with all of that extra money.
Just accessing my message box requires two to three clicks and a long ass wait. While I have the patience to wait (was on 56k until 2009), I can't imagine that I'm the only one with this problem. The forums are almost completely inaccessible every Wednesday; and it didn't used to be even close to this bad last year.
I think your avatar speaks louder than your genitals, personally.Daveman said:
OT: Honestly? How many times has this complaint come to light?
This is how the Escapist gets their money. Either deal with it, or leave. If you want to continue to enjoy free content, then what is an extra 15 seconds of your time that you can easily ignore? Is your time so precious you can't just suck it up and watch an ad?
Really?
[small]My God. Kids these days.[/small]
EDIT: Just thought of an easy solution. Join the Pub Club. Problem solved.
[small]We have jackets.[/small]
I debated paying for Pub Club before to support the site. I decided when this started, they are not annoying me into sending them money. Apparently they feel that their bandwidth is better used for advertising. Also, I have no desire to send them money be it through subscription or annoying advertisements and still have to put up with the general slowness of the site that is pretty much unusable on Wednesday. Honestly, I would be kicking myself if I was paying, by choice, for a service that grinds to a halt every week. They have pretty much shown me that even the advertising is more important dollar wise than the $20 out of anyone's pocket.
Just to make this clear. If you are paying for Pub Club and think that just because you are not seeing the advertising it isn't affecting you, you are wrong. We all share the same bandwidth, every ad that loads is using it whether you see it or not.
Just to make this clear. If you are paying for Pub Club and think that just because you are not seeing the advertising it isn't affecting you, you are wrong. We all share the same bandwidth, every ad that loads is using it whether you see it or not.