Comments on: Now THIS Is A Well Targeted Ad Buy

By: William Purvis

William Purvis — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:35:06 +0000

But, that’s not a bad price for gold! j/k

By: Syncaine

Syncaine — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:19:10 +0000

That ad is probably the most coherent, informative, and useful thing on that site.

By: wowpanda

wowpanda — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:13:31 +0000

Ventris : Heh, maybe Mythic should take out some ad space. Something like, “Why WoW when you can WAR!”.

Now we are talking!

By: VPellen

VPellen — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:19:21 +0000

It’s times like these I’m glad I don’t work for WoW customer support.

Seriously, ouch.

By: Ventris

Ventris — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:47:09 +0000

Heh, maybe Mythic should take out some ad space.

Something like, “Why WoW when you can WAR!”.

By: Trife

Trife — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 11:41:02 +0000

@Melf_Himself
I think it would be a good business call. Control the illegal market to be able to control the price and eat up all the profits of this yellow market. Though I’ve considered this a possibility for awhile, I doubt it’s really the case.

Or maybe the programmers secretly sell gold farmers good methods of avoiding detection that Blizz has implemented, such as the mail and auction house payment delays that are implemented, to take in commission or payment for being spys.

Either way, I do hate adds, the blizzard forums actually were the catalyst to cause me to finally get ad-block, usually I generally avoided sites who had overkill on adds, at least flash adds… when I see those, I personally boycott the site… and do it even faster when it has the sound ones. “Your a winner!” Just like the annoying voice that pops up from the mail letter in the Fifth Element.

By: Melf_Himself

Melf_Himself — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:56:52 +0000

Eh, we all know that Blizzard actually owns various gold-farming companies right? Weeeee profit.

By: Mist

Mist — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:46:56 +0000

Supposedly the ads are a by-product of the Activision-Blizzard upper level management.

By: Scott Jennings

Scott Jennings — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:32:19 +0000

@VorpalK

I’m not likely to run ads any time soon.

* Cost of keeping the site up is nominal (hi2u internet economy collapse).
* Google Ads (my most likely source) pay literally almost nothing.
* It’s very, very, very difficult to keep gold farming ads off Google Ads.

So given all the above, not worth the hassle.

By: UnSub

UnSub — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 04:48:42 +0000

Why does Blizzard allow ads on the official WoW forums anyway? I think it is amateur hour when I see them on the Fallen Earth forums, but think it is double amateur hour when I see them on the WoW forums because enough general revenue is coming into Blizzard to make them ad free.