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[Front Page 24hour Ad] Are we April 1st yet?
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Nycteris
To those who are saying complaints have no merit and get over the ad, it is just an ad, etc...
No, I do not believe people who are complaining about the ad will leave and go to another site. People are happy with what Wowhead are doing.
Yes, I do believe running the site is a business and Wowhead team (ZAM Network) needs to consider options to make money to run the site.
What I also believe is the people who are using Wowhead are different than who are using Thottbot, Allakhazam, or other sites in ZAM Network. Just take a look at comments in quests, items and see how they are written, how they are rated and you will see the difference. There is a more loyal, above certain level fanbase that is using this site.
Hence I also believe treating each site at the same level and treating the audiences using the sites as one and the same is not a good way of marketing. What may work with Thottbot crowd will not with Wowhead's.
There are other ads on the site. Noone is complaining about those. It is the execution that is bothering people.
And yes, the ad is ugly as hell.
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Tyrsenus
Wowhead is free to display whatever it likes, but if I worked at Blizzard, it might seem underhanded to me that an official
fansite
is displaying a prominent ad for a competing game on its front page.
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Nycteris
Wowhead is free to display whatever it likes, but if I worked at Blizzard, it might seem underhanded to me that an official
fansite
is displaying a prominent ad for a competing game on its front page.
Valid point.
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lucasdnd
It's like a PC fansite advertising Mac... very weird indeed but afterall it's just an advertisement. Wowhead needs to pay their bills :)
Post by
badkarm4
I actually felt sick, it's just tooooooo big, and it's WAR! (Tooooooo many Os? :P) Any MMO player worth their salt would have already brought then game, levelled up and lagged to sh1t while trying to siege a fort, quickly follow by ending their subscription!
And I thought the pop-unders were bad... Fortunately Adblock Plus had coped so far, until this!
In terms of features wowhead is great, the best, but remember it's still user based contributions that make the site what it is.
Gamer's are a cynical bunch!
Also, for the savvy, just image block...
http://static.wowhead.com/images/skins/warhammer.jpg?2
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Ahh, Adblock. How would I browse the internet without you to save me from horrible skins?
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