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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.

http://io9.com/assets/resources/2008/02/1984_movie_big_brother.jpg
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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yaleslot
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yaleslot
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Okay, the advertisments slow the site (much slower than when I came here a few months ago) but better a slow armorgames then no armorgames at all. I won't use ad blocker to improve the speed of the site, no, I live with it because I support the website more now.

AG could also force people to click one ad, for example: For every game you want to play, you need to click one ad. (Or for every 5 or 10 games you start, 1 ad click is necessary)
I don't know what average age the users have on this site, if it is pretty low it can be AG will lose visitors using this method.

Holden012
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Dan uses the money to host this site... So pay some respect. If Dan did'nt have much money this site would look like a piece of crap!

Holden012
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Sorry for double post but for example this site could look like this ugly looking thing...


Click Here To see It


See?? It's a mess...

JUSTnewHERE
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JUSTnewHERE
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Jester

So what does these ads really do here?

LazyOne
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LazyOne
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^
Haven't you read the article?

We click
Ads pay
dan maintains
site is antertaining
for us

And it just repeats

Squwanky
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Just so long as there are no moving adds then this will still be my favorite site, on a side note I think most of the blockers are teens and some irresponsible adult and/or unregistered people. Well that was what I was when I blocked but now I know better thank you and to every no ekes spread the word to ever corner of the forum (it has corners , right?) and let them know!

freetailmadness
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i use adbloker for chrome
but it makes the text jumbled..

LOL
ExpoBanana
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ExpoBanana
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who are you? freetailmadness???

Hotchurkey
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Hotchurkey
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I think ads are fine, but some to many inappropriate references, and they also used to advertise for that "Kick A**" movie, and I have to make sure that my parents don't see any of those to make sure I don't lose computer privileges.

Also, Freetailmadness, are you ripping off Firetailmadness?

Switchbladez
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JESUS CHRIST ARE YOU FUNNY. Well I have been taught throught my child hood that if you click on the ads you get viruses. Like really. Cant really trust anything on the interweb anymore.

knight_34
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knight_34
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Farmer

If you can't then GTFO of here. Not all ads give you viruses.

Kyouzou
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Kyouzou
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Usually if the company can pay for their ad to be on a website that is trusted, then it won't contain a virus. However if you're clicking ads on a porn site for example then there is a good chance that you might get a virus. It just depends the type of site you're on and the type of ads you're clicking. Aesthetics can tell you a lot.

trablis
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trablis
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I dont like ads they confuse me and they are a big pain to look at

Healmeal
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Healmeal
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I dont like ads they confuse me and they are a big pain to look at



Have you even read the first post of this thread?
tanstaafl28
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tanstaafl28
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I don't mind ads. Spam in the feedback threads, that's a different story...

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