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Klaushouse
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You are stupid.

Some of you stupid people do not understand how much money it costs to keep this site running. You have a even harder time understanding the complexity of Dan not having multiple money trees planted in his back yard beside his flying unicorns. Dan spends hundreds if not thousands making sure this site stays up and running for thousands of little children.

http://lh4.google.co.uk/charliechia/RwHQxG96fRI/AAAAAAAAAYo/od3WZw50cX4/s400/money_tree%20copy.jpg
This is not Dan, or his backyard.

Why do you like this site? Probably because it's very simple to register, join, login, play free games and talk to other kids. But this great and simple design didn't just appear. People were payed to design it, code it, and make so simple that a kid can come on and instinctively know what to do, making sure you have the best time possible, and this isn't cheap. At all. Not only does he pay coders/designers, but he pays game makers, quite substantial amounts of money to make the best games you all love. And he pays them a lot, if any of you pay attention you will know some people get thousands of dollars for a single game.

http://www.undeadreport.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/the_last_stand_2.jpg
This cost Dan thousands of dollars, and you pay $0 to play it.

But hey! All these great features, we must be paying a lot for this much free games, and user easy of access! How much? Oh wait nothing! But wait a second... let's do some off the top of my head math...

Dan + No User Fees = Expensive To Maintain Website

No that just doesn't sound around right. There must be a missing factor.

Dan + No User Fees + X = Expensive To Maintain Website

Now let's brain storm and see what X could be that keeps this site running, oh wait no I know, ads! So the equation goes like this:

Dan + No User Fees + Ads = Expensive To Maintain Website

Now in reality the equation is much more complex but we will keep it simple for you. But what happens if you take the ads away from the equation? It's like taking away the 4 from 4 + 2 = 6, it just won't make sense or work out. Which is why they exist.

http://tonova.typepad.com/thesuddencurve/images/2008/08/16/hillbilly.jpg
Average AG user trying to keep up with my math.

[quote]Don't worry guys, don't like ads? Use ad blocker! So cool!

Says 'Stupid Child A'
But aren't the ads there for a reason? Or why else would they be there?

Says 'Moderately Smart Child B'
Don't be stupid, ads are just there to annoy us, they don't mind if we block them, makes no difference!

Replies 'Stupid Child A'
Oh okay, I guess that makes sense Stupid Child A. Thanks for pointing that out to me, let's go whine about Sonny 3 and how it's taking forever just after Sonny 2 came out a week ago!

Says 'Recently Deemed Stupid Child B'
Yeah let's go!

Finishes 'Stupid Child A'[/quote]

By blocking ads to make your petty lives easier, you are making harder for Dan to keep the site running, because he gets less money because of it. You block ads and this makes him want to keep this site under his management less and less, because money will soon come out of his pocket, money he works hard for, and deserves to keep. By blocking ads you are ensuring that this site won't survive for long. You will keep whining that the site has ads until he can't afford to run the site and either:
A) Sells it off to someone who will change the site to your dislike.
B) Make the site pay-2-play, so you will all have to pay.
C) Close the site in it's entirety.

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The future of ArmorGames due to Ad-Blockers.

You whine, but you pay nothing. If you were all ready to pay money yourselves, then complain, but if you don't like the idea of a pay to view website, you better expect a few ads. Think of the ads as your donation/fee to Dan to keep the site up, by blocking them you are trying to view the site without even paying the little minuscule entrance fee.

I don't mind ads, but now they are popping up in front of my screen and on the sides of the site! Normal ones are fine but they are now literally littering my screen to a point where I can't navigate the site.

Would you like to know who is to blame? Yourselves. This is a direct consequence of all you stupid kids who block ads, and lose Dan money.

Lets say it cost 10 dollars to run the site(it's not $10, but just as an example to explain). And the ads pay for let's say 11 dollars.
This 10 dollars goes to maintaining the site, and the extra dollar is put aside to save up and make the site even better. This comes to us as additional content or upgrades to the site/forum.

Now lets say that the ads pay for 11 usually, but now because people are blocking ads, he only gets 9 from them instead of 11. So this means he can't afford maintaining the site, let alone adding new things to it! How can this be? He will need to find a new way to make up for the 2 dollars he loses because of kids like you who block, and how does he do this? He compensates for the loss by making the other users who don't block, have even more ads. Annoying ads that appear on the sides and even over the site are there because he needs those to compensate for the loss of money generated by those who block ads. So not only are you making more ads appear by blocking, but you are making sure that he can't make enough money to update the site. You all complain new features never come on the site, and that is mainly because all the money that WOULD go to updating AG goes right into maintaining the normal site, due to losing money from blockers.

http://xjtian94.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/internet-advertising.jpg
Frontpage of Armorgames if enough people start blocking ads.

I hope you stupid kids semi understand this, so that you stop blocking the site. Because you are the main cause of it's lack of updates and increased ads. So unless you have a check ready to be payed to ArmorGames every month to ensure it staying up, I suggest you shut up and live with the ads.

P.S. I said stupid 6 times in this, almost a personal record.
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jdawg888
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jdawg888
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thought they were around 14

Covertcoder
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Covertcoder
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You can get a debit card at the age of 12 and use that to pay for online goods in the UK.

chubbins7
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im not complaining without ads this site probaly wouldnt be here i admire how much dan pays to maintain this site ive met tons of noobs who are all like why the hell are there all theses stupid ads and im like stfu noob without u wouldnt be playing these games.
-chubbins7

th100
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th100
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Yeah, why doesn't Dan get a PayPal button instead? That would bring him some money.

Jax1100
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Jax1100
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jdawg i said 30% are 20-30 not the majority

Hydraulic
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I don't really hate ads, and I (gasp) sometimes click on them too. But it doesn't lower revenue if I change the quality from high to low on animated ones, right? 'Cause my computer is absolute cr*p and as thus cannot run system-intensive games like Raze while two or three animated ads run at highest quality.

SubZero131
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i really didnt even know there were ads on this site. I have ABP, so literally millions of ads all around the internet are blocked.

Freakenstein
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Yeah, why doesn't Dan get a PayPal button instead? That would bring him some money.


When the website is a flash gaming site and the targeted age is Teen, users don't exactly have money to throw around, much less a credit card to use.

I'm pretty certain that if you are positive enough that you want to donate, you can do so manually by asking the staff. If they believe you, they can give you the HQ's address and you can send in the dough there.
suirome
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Hmm your right,i dont like ads because it lags my game,due to rather old computer,but now that you mentioned all this,il think about Dan's hard work next time i see those ads.
But you people must agree with me,98% of each AG game individually is beter than most of the mmos advertised.Trust me!i know best that one!
Still we,the people,must stand them,its the price of freedom.

Jax1100
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LIKE I SAID BEFORE TO YOU ALL SOME OF THE USERS ON AG PROBABLY HAVE CREDIT CARDS ONLY SOME BUT YES SOME DO SO DAN SHOULD PUT A PAYPAL BUTTON IN

Jax1100
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oh sorry not to spam but i had caps lock on lol

rebekahdepp
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I totally agree. Television has more advertisements then most websites, and yet the average Joe (Or Jody) watches 6 hours minimum of it. 6 hours, or 35 seconds? You decide.

rtexti
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@klaus

If you comlain so much, why don't YOU help pay?

Hydraulic
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@klaus

If you comlain so much, why don't YOU help pay?


Assuming you mean Klaushouse, you fail. Klaus is not complaining about ads, he's complaining about the retards who block them. I know, I know, reading an OP before you spam is hard, but just try next time, OK?

And, you misspelled complain. GG, troll.
sirvaliant
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I only have trouble with the ones that pop up at the bottom of the screen. Those are annoying. I don't care about normal advertising, but those popping up into your personal life are just offensive. There seem to be so many different ads that, if counted would boggle your mind. I would think that the person owning this website would be making money. Plus, if you think that whining about whining will do something, you need to be shot. I totally agree with klaus, but if your making a profit (or just breaking even, I'm not sure witch) then you can stop buying adds, and let those little children playing games on this site enjoy their personal lives instead of backing up the greedy, power-hungry people in charge. As klaus might say- In short, EVERYONE STOP WHINING!

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