Poll: More ads on The Excpaist - Problem solved?
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While I am not someone who generally likes ads I am willing to put up with them if they are unobtrusive, not repetitive, and speak to my interests. Generally the ads on The Escapist are two of those three. On the other hand I am more adverse to paying for access to web sites, even if it's just access to special features or whatever.
I will pay for tangible goods like merchandise or the goods I have seen advertised so I will take more ads please.
The major failing on The Escapist is the video ads. I am sick and tired of watching the same ad over and over before the start of each video. Nothing makes me loath a product or service more than being forced to watch the same advertisement more than twice in a row. Seriously, I like Newegg, I have bought products from them and had a generally pleasant experience, but if I have to watch that actor pretend to be a know-nothing store clerk in their video ad one more time... I might need a new monitor and I won't be buying it from Newegg.
I know The Escapist uses session cookies because I am logged in and posting this message. I would think should be possible to put some information in the session cookie, or on my account, to track what ads I have already suffered through so I don't have to be subjected to the same one over and over. Better yet, let me vote on the ads I receive so I can tailor what I am subjected to and make it as painless as possible.
Bottom line, if I must sit through ads in order to get to the content, at least give me a variety and make it relevant to my interests.
I will pay for tangible goods like merchandise or the goods I have seen advertised so I will take more ads please.
The major failing on The Escapist is the video ads. I am sick and tired of watching the same ad over and over before the start of each video. Nothing makes me loath a product or service more than being forced to watch the same advertisement more than twice in a row. Seriously, I like Newegg, I have bought products from them and had a generally pleasant experience, but if I have to watch that actor pretend to be a know-nothing store clerk in their video ad one more time... I might need a new monitor and I won't be buying it from Newegg.
I know The Escapist uses session cookies because I am logged in and posting this message. I would think should be possible to put some information in the session cookie, or on my account, to track what ads I have already suffered through so I don't have to be subjected to the same one over and over. Better yet, let me vote on the ads I receive so I can tailor what I am subjected to and make it as painless as possible.
Bottom line, if I must sit through ads in order to get to the content, at least give me a variety and make it relevant to my interests.
Indeed. Quite a few shows don't seem to be getting many views, after all.Bobic said:
Personally, I'd pay even more money (if told to) just to avoid 30-second ads for 300-second videos. If we escapists can pay $60 for the newest FPS games so often, we can pay $20 yearly to avoid ads and contribute.
If their gonna put up more ads then how about some damn gaming related ads? I rely on this site in helping me make choses on the games I'm going to purchases. I'm a goddamn potential gold mine to gaming advertisement! Instead I'm I get endless slim Jim commercials and I think I once saw a Enzymes one to. I would be 100% more likely to click on a gaming related ad to see what its about then the penis pills.
Side rant -
Not sure why so many people are against ads. Its how we get the message out there about things to buy, it the blood of a capitalist society. If people don't know about your product how are they gonna buy it and how are you gonna pay rent next month? /side rant
Side rant -
Not sure why so many people are against ads. Its how we get the message out there about things to buy, it the blood of a capitalist society. If people don't know about your product how are they gonna buy it and how are you gonna pay rent next month? /side rant
I have a slow connection, so more than two flash ads on a page tends to kill my browser.
I'd rather not have even more ads, thanks.
I'd rather not have even more ads, thanks.
I don't mind more ads, but I don't think it would do much of a difference. As some say it might prevent newcomers from joining the site, it might make old users annoyed and leave. Mostly I think that the economy is so far down that it's only a matter of time before the companies paying for ads decide to cut some ads to make ends meet.
That's ridiculously stupid.eximista said:
Seriously. How would you EVER come to this conclusion?
I really don't care about adspace sold...
as long as the escapist keeps churning out quality content...
as long as the escapist keeps churning out quality content...
They probably took out a loan to save face (what with this being a PR disaster). That's the reasonable explanation.eximista said:
Weren't paying attention, were you? All the talk fired back and forth, and how the charity overflow was to "Save Extra Credits", with NO COMMUNICATION on what that meant? Since the Escapist hosted Extra Credits, they figured that "Saving Extra Credits" could be achieved via saving the Escapist from its current major financial issues. At least, if they're to be believed, that's the case. But Extra Credits tried to go a different direction with it, and now we have this epic fail.eximista said:
"Steal charity money" sounds more like "get in fight over what the charity money is for" at this point. So yes, saving face.
I don't know much about economics... but if you have to take a loan to pay your staff - you are down.lacktheknack said:
So why do they need more money? they have lost extra credits... know they have one show less than befor. If they can't handle it know they have to get down.
If your firm wouldn't pay you your salary... would you get them your money so they can pay you your own salary?? Well I wouldn't...
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Klumpfot said:
Heh. The first handful of posts already said what immediately came to mind when I saw the subject line of this thread. Have you even noticed the ridiculous number of threads complaining about how intrusive the ads are getting, which have been getting posted more and more frequently over the past several months as they've already been adding more ads (which have been getting more obnoxious and do things like obscure the page content until they're manually dismissed, which pay better than less irritating ads at the cost of pissing off users more)? I suspect the whole reason they have a rule against advocating ad blocker use is that they already went well past the threshold a while ago where it started annoying people more than the higher paying ads were worth, so good luck making up the difference by plastering even more ads over things...steeple said: