aLkaLiNE on 05 March 2016
| DivinePaladin said: I'd rather they get fairly solid ad revenue from my viewing since the revenue from ads overall would far outpace the income from user donation in all likelihood. I just want ads that aren't either porn or force open/are generally insanely intrusive on mobile. It's not much to ask to hope a website doesn't act straight out of the late 90s in 2016, especially one that is considered to have quality data that almost no other site has in any capacity. I almost wish VGC had a true competitor because maybe then somebody with pull would stop and think that maybe there should be a conversation had about these disgusting advertisements. |
Server cost has to be <$2000 a month. I'm sure someone more qualified can speak on this, but one of the forums I used to frequent, which had nearly 100,000 users called Scorehero had a periodical crowd fund and iirc the server cost was substantially less than that and would last a few months at a time. Compare that with the penny per ad that VgChartz gets per click/force open. I imagine the numbers could be close.
its also not as simple as just 'removing' the ads. If ioi didn't rely on this revenue, I don't think he would enforce the marketing we see today.
