Ads are ok but all the flash are a tad overwhelming.  Anyone on slow net is pretty screwed when loading the site and that gets frustrating at times.

Although i like the way they are all MMO related, all are quite detailed and nice and i have yet to see a gold seller advert (official one anyway)

 My only real gripe with the ads is that they are getting more and more...flesh oriented. It may be silly in this day and age, I know, but I'd rather ads actually advertise the game...as opposed to body parts to bait you into clicking on their website from some hormone induced frenzy.

Perhaps I expect too much of humanity anymore.

As for the Dragon Age sticker, I think it'd be fine if it were smaller, or maybe on the top or bottom of the pictures as opposed to the whole right side. Its a bit too invasive and detracts from whatever its on.

I don’t feel a need to switch of the ads they are not that bad and a nice babe brightens up my morning. But flashing and animations are just distracting, I looked at the ad anyway, does it have to flash all the time?

 i use ad blockers on certain sites, i want to support this site and help keep it free so i do not block ads. =]

Can we pay a Premium member ship and get No ads?

I actually applaud the website for ads, your never lead to random sites for clicking on the side or something. Look at tentonhammer, 15 sec ad right inyour face when you go to there page and the little banner that covers like 20% of the browser in the bottom, mmohub you click anywhere on the site and more than likely your led to a game's website, plus the ads here are only for games and not viagra or something. So yeh i applaud the staff for there ads ;)

    The ads were already headed towards the excessive side without plastering them on top of content. Also, I am slightly offended at the implication that the site couldn't remain free without desecrating the content of this site by putting ads on TOP of it. I am quite sure that the site could pay its bills with the hundreds of other ads.

:)

Originally posted by SnarlingWolf

Ok there's the top ad banners, there's the background ad, there's the side ad banner, there's the just off center add boxes. That was more then enough to be distracting and annoying.

 

But now we have a brought to you by ad sticker over the pictures on the latest features section? That's beyond overkill and really takes away from the images. How much ad space really has to be sold here?

I think everyone is missing SnarlingWolf's point. It isn't normal ads on the site that bothers Wolf, it's the ad right on top of of the features box. I'm looking at a screen shot of a ship in STO and then a big red dragon over the top it that takes up roughly 1/3 of the background image. So I agree with Wolf. I don't mid the advertizments, but that one is just a little too forcefull and a really big turn off.

at least there no bs adds on how to get buff in 4 weeks

or

do you want a bigger penis?

i don't like adds iether

but sadly that's 1 of the ways sites get their income, money is the most important thing for companies these days

and at least this site doesn't have pop up adds that come every single time you click on a new page

deal with it...i have -__-

Originally posted by Dana

I just happened to be doing a late check and saw you in the "latest posts" thing on the front page... So I tossed it in the right forum.

That said, while I have nothing to do with advertising (seeing them there is as big of a surprise to editorial as it is to readers, and we like it that way!), it's a pretty simple equation: No ads, no site. 

Another simple equation is no audience, no site to sell adds on.

mmorpg.com has adds all over the place, and that is fine, where I draw the line of what is acceptable is popups and sticker adds like the Dragon Age add.

It ruins it for me.

I used to tell on other sites how the advertising here is done very well, this is however a 1st step in the wrong direction, imho.

edit : Okay so it is a test case, I sure hope you will stay away from this kind of sticker add in the future. Like I said, I generally like the way you do adds on this site, it is pretty much the best I have seen so far ( not counting the Dragon Age add ofc :p ).