I am at the point where I just do not understand what ioi and crew and trying to accomplish with this site.

I've been a member since 2007. I have seen the site go through many changes, including 2 major site redesigns. The most recent redesign made the site harder to browse the forums. That was bad though there have been some improvements since its introduction. I recognize that. Here is my problem:

I often get full page, cock-blocking ads that appear when I try to enter forums or threads. I click "skip ad" and it does nothing, forcing me to reload the forum or thread. This is much, much worse than the already awful full-page ads that appear when you first navigate to the site. Someone is bound to say... but ameratsu! Big sites like IGN and others have full page ads! When VGC gains the sort of popularity, traffic and volume of content that those sites have, by all means implement full page ads when you first visit the site. However, given the current state of VGC, full page ads along with every inch of open space being whored out is an immense turn off that places us among the lower rung of advertising and spam laden websites.

Please seriously consider doing something about this if you guys (ioi, admins) honestly want to improve the image of the site. As is I genuinely question this site's direction and feel like it is being driven into the ground.

Same thing is happening to me.

I also get the full page add expect the skip button does not even show up for me so I have to sit through them all. Its awful.....

cock-blocking? ...I mean... badgenome is sexy ...but not that sexy....

You forgot about the annoying sound ads.

I use this website at school and OMG it looks like trash with all those ads and videos, not to mention it runs at 1 mph speed. At home, ohh how I love you firefox.

Maybe once that paid subscription comes for VG Chartz the ads will go down considerably, hopefully.

Yeah, ads are too anoying, even if ign has full-page ads, they aren't soo slow