The Official Radeon Ad Thread

Dave Astle · 2003-11-28T21:36:49

Okay, since I can't keep up with all the threads going on about the Radeon ad, I decided to start this thread. I'm going to close all the others, as well as any new ones that come up. If you asked a question/made a comment in one of the other threads that you would like to have me respond to, please repost here. I will edit this post to add relevant information. For starters, this ad is part of a 2 month long campaign with ATI. It will run through the end of November. Although I'm not at liberty to discuss the details of the campaign, the revenue generated by it will suffice to pay for our hosting and bandwidth for a while - something we desperately needed due to another sponsor backing out after several months into the deal - but that's another story. We are required to deliver a set number of views by the end of November. For this reason, although there are ways for you to circumvent the ad, we would appreciate you not doing so, since it will require us placing the ad on even more pages. We were very reluctant to take on this type of ad, and we informed ATI's advertising agency that some, if not many, of our readers would object to it. But the general feeling among advertisers is that most web users now automatically ignore standard banners, so more extreme measures are required to even be noticed. Will we be taking on more ads like this one in the future? I don't know. Our priority is the continued existence of the site, and if that requires taking on these types of ads, that's what we'll do. However, we are exploring other options. At this time, it looks like the best option for our long-term, continued survival will be adding a paid, premium membership. As I've said before, if we go that route, you will not have to start paying for things you get now for free (with the possible exception of hosting and bandwidth via the GDShowcase). Unfortunately, this is not something that we can implement overnight, and once it is in place, I expect that it'll take a while to get the subscription rate high enough to support the site, so interim solutions, like this ad, are needed. Feel free to post any questions or comments you may have here. Kevin and I will do our best to respond to them as quickly as possible. UPDATE (10/24): Currently, with the addition of the ad to the forum page, we're up to around 10,000 daily impressions, which is still considerably short. Unfortunately, this leaves me with two options: Add the ad to the individual threads (the most highly trafficed page on the site) or ask them to allow us to extend the campaign. They will probably do the latter, since the campaign was supposed to last 3 months, but they were six weeks late delivering the ad. Of the two, the extension seems like the lesser evil. UPDATE (11/8): In response to feedback from all of you, ATI has decided to pull the current ad, and replace it with a more conventional one. Dave "Myopic Rhino" Astle Executive Producer and COO, GameDev.net Game Programmer, Avalanche Software Author, OpenGL Game Programming "Leaking and bleeding... that's what happens when you don't relax"

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Started by Myopic Rhino October 22, 2002 05:26 PM

553 comments, last by Myopic Rhino 20 years, 5 months ago

EdR

117

November 11, 2002 10:19 AM

ATI are not the bastids I believed them to be. Kudos.

http://edropple.com

Anonymous

November 11, 2002 11:44 AM

Kudos

Anonymous

November 11, 2002 01:32 PM

The Masonic Troll Association of America Rule !!!!

MTAA Rules !!!!

Cyberdrek

100

November 12, 2002 07:36 AM

quote:Original post by Bas Paap

Yet TV ads show up every twenty minutes when watching a show, while internet ads show up just about every thirty seconds when browsing a website or forums.

Actually, that was every page change...

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Anonymous

November 12, 2002 01:13 PM

The Ad is for losers.
Thanks you GAMEDEV !!!
THANK YOU GAMEDEV !!!!

I wanna suck your dicslkjflejie.

Myopic Rhino

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Author

November 12, 2002 02:30 PM

quote:Original post by RapidStunna
1.) When are the new ads going to go up?

They were supposed to have them to me yesterday, but I havne''t received them yet.

quote:Original post by RapidStunna
2.) Will this affect gamedev.net''s money income?

AFAIK, no.

BTW, just to make this clear, it was ATI that decided to pull the ad at our suggestion, so I think they deserve credit for being responsive to your opinions on this.

Galileo

145

November 13, 2002 05:56 AM

Yes... Maybe now I''ll get an ad I can see

. I wasn''t using anything to avert the ad but I never got it.

CountOfMonteChristo

122

November 13, 2002 05:09 PM

quote:Original post by Bas Paap
Yet TV ads show up every twenty minutes when watching a show, while internet ads show up just about every thirty seconds when browsing a website or forums.

quote:Original post by Cyberdrek
Actually, that was every page change...

Yes? When browsing a site, I go to a new page just about every thirty seconds, especially on forums. So your point is?

By the way... I feel that whoever is hosting GameDev is doing a pretty lousy job for the apparently large amounts of money GD has to pay them.. The site is hardly ever operational during the day (or night, depending on where you are)... Just mornings and evenings. The server always appears to be offline when I stop by during the daytime.

[edited by - Bas Paap on November 13, 2002 6:11:24 PM]

owl

376

November 13, 2002 05:16 PM

quote:Original post by Bas Paap
By the way... I feel that whoever is hosting GameDev is doing a pretty lousy job for the apparently large amounts of money GD has to pay them.. The site is hardly ever operational during the day (or night, depending on where you are)... Just mornings and evenings. The server always appears to be offline when I stop by during the daytime.

True

There is a thread for bitching (live with it)

about that.

[edited by - xaxa on November 13, 2002 6:17:41 PM]

[size="2"]I like the Walrus best.

Redline

124

November 17, 2002 08:58 AM

I haven''t read all the other opinions (I''d be here for the next 5 hours otherwise

) but I have to say, at first the add didn''t piss me off, then it started to piss me off, then I read this thread and now it doesn''t piss me off anymore. If it pays for this site then so be it (which is what I assumed it was doing in the first place, but now I have confirmation

).

Gamedev.net does a service, and in this fuck up captialist driven world, we sometimes have to swallow this shit (sorry, hard week)

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