Comments on: Why I Don’t Use Adblockers

By: albinowax

albinowax — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:44:19 +0000

In reply to jorm.

I’m slightly late here but couldn’t you just have banned the entire set of TOR exit nodes? I mean there wouldn’t be many people with a legitimate reason to use it.

I personally really dislike the ethics of adverts and as such have no plans to put them in my game but it’s single player so there’s no cost to me, so it’s hardly comparable.

Anyways thanks for nexuswar.

By: Donovan

Donovan — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:09:28 +0000

In reply to Bonner. Yes, but not all ads work on a per click basis. Quite a few ads nowadays work on a "per impression", ie. how many people just have them load on their screen. Adblock destroys the revenue from these especially. Most ad companies now do both ways. You get a micro amount for a per impression and a slightly larger amount for a per click.

By: notafish

notafish — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 23:59:05 +0000

@sherrod And then comes Wikipedia…

By: sherrod

sherrod — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 08:01:41 +0000

Hi.
You have no idea how much this resonates with me. I didn’t love my project like you seemed to love yours, but I wanted to do best by my users and facilitate something on the web, though obviously controversial. The real crush is seeing a site that is so popular that the bw and hosting bill are astronomical. Incredible amounts of traffic, insanely popular, but unable to pay for itself. It can really cut to the bone.

I’ve never used any kind of adblocker. I fully understand and appreciate the things society provides at a non cash price. TV, radio, newspapers, 99% of web content – all supplemented or supported with ad revenue. I really just don’t mind advertising and I am always aware of what it allows me to have for free.

The lesson I learned: There is no money in non-money ventures. If you want to do something, charge people for it. If you don’t, they think it’s worth nothing and treat it as such.

By: Elisha

Elisha — Sun, 19 Jun 2011 08:08:49 +0000

Hi Jorm
Loved the game, although I only got my wings in the last day or so. You, Kevin and a handful of other developers have lead the way for many other games. Your ideas and inspiration will live on. Funny to think that the popularity actually killed the beast in the end. You said you wanted to make a community, that community lives on in other games I’ve played. Maybe the ads would have been a small price to pay in the end.

By: Meowsma

Meowsma — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 23:43:54 +0000

I never used an adblocker because I knew you needed the money. The ads did start to have a detrimental effect on my browser, though, so I was one who bought the ad-free experience.

By: EGo

EGo — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:30:51 +0000

In reply to B. You're not in the minority on the last part, definitely.

By: B

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:55:59 +0000

It made me glad to read this post and realize that I was in the minority in everything. I never had the money to buy credits, but I never used an adblocker (I even tried one of the advertised games where you had to mix DNA to create beasts or something, but it was pretty awful compared to NW), and I certainly played for more than 3 months (pretty much most of high school and a little bit of college). It broke my heart when the game ended, although I still have wonderful memories of the Elder Powers roaming those last few weeks and how much fun everyone had just following them around.

By: Bonner

Bonner — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:52:28 +0000

I think society is to blame for things like this. I can’t help but be reminded of a scene from Futurama where Fry lists off all the things advertising was placed on in the 20th century. People are bombarded with advertising everwhere they go now. You can’t walk down the street, turn on your TV or turn on your radio without having ads pushed at you. I’ll come clean and say that i’m an ad blocker, I have the Firefox extention and it’s always enabled. It was when I played Nexus War and if it ever comes back, it will be again. My reasoning? I will never click ads. I don’t trust the internet and I never will. I will never buy anything from an online ad and i’m very firm on that. Seeing as the ads work on a per click/purchase basis, it defeats the point of them being there so I remove them. Unfortunately due to this, sites like Nexus War will suffer. As much as I loved NW for the two years I played I will not change my attitude toward ads, and that goes for any website.

By: jorm

jorm — Mon, 18 Apr 2011 05:12:17 +0000

In reply to Wyn. No, I've not moved on. But I'm so terribly busy. It's difficult to describe.