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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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New999
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New999
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Blacksmith

I have to agree, these ads help the site, but while we can have those ads, how come we have Popups as well? i mean yes, they are also advertisement, but they always come every damn time i go somewhere. I go to this thread, popup comes up. Play a game, popup comes up. Go to my profile, popup. Go to news, popup. Its really making me mad. Thats why i dont go here that much. I only go here for the games and then i leave because of these freakin popups!

Heres something:
They keep the ads on the website and get rid of the popups. Otherwise people will go insane having popups interupt their games all the freakin time.

Keep the ads, get rid of the annoying as popups, and there, this site will still be running and will be less annoying.

MrDayCee
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King

Agreed New999, but those pop-ups give extra money I guess, therefor they will not be removed by AG... this would result in a loss of income to keep the site running...

See the controverse in this matter?

Chenkov
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Chenkov
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Nomad

I don't mind ads , but theres a diffrence between

Ads help support AG. Please, don't complain, and maybe even click one once in a while.

As appossed to

LOOK,ADS KEEP AG RUNNING.NOW SHUT UP AND CLICK ON EVERY AD!!!

Hmmmm how do we make it so people can undestand the importance of ads?

xOneWingedAngel
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Nomad

I have no problem with adds.
Its just the ones that make noise when the mouse runs over them that are annoying.

MrDayCee
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King

Hmmmm how do we make it so people can undestand the importance of ads?


It's actually really simple... get people to read the starting comment by the maker of this thread! It's all clearly explained and written down in just one comment!

So people, DO read this: "Explaining the need for Ads on AG by Klaushouse"
Parsat
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Parsat
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Blacksmith

This has probably been mentioned before, but those using Mozilla Firefox will benefit greatly by downloading the Ad-Block Plus Addon, which is free and will block all ads here from displaying. I was unaware for the longest time that this place had ads.

Holden012
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Nomad

Ads dont bother me only the video ads on websites or pop ups! The Evony Ad lol!!

DrElmer
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DrElmer
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Shepherd

I have no problem with adds.


What gave the idea for you to click here?

Ads dont bother me


Honestly, this thread is for people who DON'T like ads. If you "don't mind" them, why on earth did you click on this thing?

I know the answer: because you don't really "don't mind" ads; you hate them, and you clicked on this thread because you wanted to find a way to get rid of them.
Ernie15
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Bard

There was one ad that bothered me, but that one was only there for about a day or so. It made the entire page blank, apart from the ad. Now that was an ad that wasn't worth the money.

iamnotironman
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iamnotironman
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Nomad

what is this its boring and stupid adds are horrible

Ernie15
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Bard

what is this its boring and stupid adds are horrible


Have you ever been yelled at before? Because I can sense that someone is about to yell at you. I'm not going to mention any names, but I'm guessing it will be Klaus...
Lou73
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Lou73
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Nomad

I think some of the ads are funny :P

Yodadude53
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Nomad

I usually don't notices ads, but sometimes I look at them while games are loading, and like like beastahayes said, they are sometimes enjoyable

theprofessionalnate
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Nomad

If you block ads the ads are still their and the person who pays Dan to put the Ads on doesn't know about it

Freakenstein
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Freakenstein
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Yes, but when you block the ads automatically, the cookie does not go through and it was as if the ad was never put there in the first place. That loses flow of income with putting ads on the site.

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