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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yes. Ads are the lifeblood of the community, as the OP stated. Without them, Dan would have to pay out his own pocket and not have enough for his own life to flourish. He would end up having this site pay to join! *gasp* I couldn't even imagine....
I've been playing gemcraft chapter 0 in chrome (default settings) for months now, and can't recall a popup or side ad. I see the in flash ads when loading, the ads at top and bottom of game, and of course, the ad at the top of the page. Haven't really had a problem with any until lately, the lords online ad does this weird thing with the cursor that turns it into a hammer inside of the ad, but causes the cursor in the game to disappear. It's not too bad, because I can just reload the page and get a different ad, but still a bit annoying.
Alright, who's bright idea was it to change the title of the thread....mods? Come clean man..
I have to agree, that it's not a 'bright' idea to change the thread name into the current one... somehow people don't know of what they can expect inside? hmmm... *scratches head* Better to change it back to the original name!
Haven't really had a problem with any until lately, the lords online ad does this weird thing with the cursor that turns it into a hammer inside of the ad, but causes the cursor in the game to disappear. It's not too bad, because I can just reload the page and get a different ad, but still a bit annoying.
Most flash ads have that feature where 'your' cursor turn into a certain feature that consists of something ralated to the game. But that usually stays within the add, so when you move your cursor down again, it should turn back into the 'normal' arrow... I've never heard of this clitch where your cursor completely disappears and stays like the one in the add... :S
i dont like the add that has to people making out it is disturbing and if my parents see im in troble ok plz take it off
Is there even any?
Well... actually there is, but... come on! It's a cartoon!?! How can someone get into trouble for that?! If it were a real picture ehm... maybe? But a cartoon? Nah...
Well... actually there is, but... come on! It's a cartoon!?! How can someone get into trouble for that?! If it were a real picture ehm... maybe? But a cartoon? Nah...
Cartoon or no cartoon, there are still stereotypical women with bewbs half hanging out and pants stretched until camel toes are visible. Just saying. There have been many, but only that one army-building strategy game and IMVU ads popped around every now and then. I think these are solved for the moment, yes? I haven't seen any for months.
I heard the advertisers only pay per click. Is that true?
Pay for viewing, and in some instances, paying for clicking. This is why we stress to not have ad blocker and report the annoying and sexually-disturbing ads that pop up every now and then.
Cartoon or no cartoon, there are still stereotypical women with bewbs half hanging out and pants stretched until camel toes are visible.
Oh, and what's wrong with that?
The problem with some ads is that they contain viruses. Now, when you're like me and have Internet Explorer, you never want to click on a stray advertised link, because it may just have a hidden virus that wants to kill your computer.
McAfee OAS = god when it comes to these sorts of virus-carrying ads. If I click on something bad it goes SCHLOOP and exits out of windows. Usually it's a trojan :P BAD TROJANS
Anywhoo, yeah, it seems as though the more and more pages that we make on this thread the less and less new people read the first page and understands what we are talking about. :-/