Posted by Optional, watch video ads for GB or SB

ArthaDemon (#18889)

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2018-07-08 04:32:03
I know your first instinct will be a huge hell no, but before you smash that no support button so hard it shatters into dust, hear me out.

Ads help support sites, but when they are intrusive and annoying, the sites just piss people off or drive them away. But what if you could optionally watch a video ad for a possibility of up to 100 Silver Beetles or a possibility of 1-3 GB? It would have a cool down or a limit, meaning you could only do it once every few hours, or twice a day.

This would allow people who don't have money a chance to get GB and still support the site, while not allowing irritating ads all over Lioden. I have seen this work really well for mobile games that have currency, and I think it could work well for this site too.

Keeping the amount limited wouldn't hurt game balance, and would help support the site, while still encouraging people who have money to purchase Gold Beetles.

Before you claim me as one of the people who doesn't buy GB, I have spent about $40-$50 since I rejoined, to customize my lion and support the site.

I don't always have money for this, and not everybody does. I would like other ways to support the site, and watching 30-60 seconds of a video ad doesn't take much time, I would get a reward, and Lioden would get a little money.

TL;DR - OPTIONAL video ads for small prizes... As in, you have to willingly navigate to and watch the ad. It doesn't pop up, doesn't show up randomly, and it wouldn't be intrusive. You would have to navigate to it and confirm that you are watching it for the SB or more uncommon GB 'prize'. Keeping the watches limited and the prizes small would not disrupt game balance.



This suggestion has 6 supports and 19 NO supports.



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Edited on 08/07/18 @ 15:47:06 by ArthaDemon (#18889)

Mots - RP Loved🏒 (#5378)

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2018-07-08 06:28:20
Sorry, no support from me. I play another game on another site and it has so many ads it has actually taken the fun away from said game. It's more annoying to wait for the little >> button to pop up so I can skip the damn thing. I just want to play my game and get to a high level, not end a level and watch a video. Also the video on that game doesn't even offer stuff like they used to, it's just there to be annoying.

So I'd figure it would be annoying here as well. Like say you are in the middle of a good forum RP or in a good conversation over PMs with a friend, then poof. An ad pops up. And it may or may not even offer anything good, they glitch too like I mentioned. So you may end up with just an annoying ad with no reward.



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ArthaDemon (#18889)

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2018-07-08 07:12:22
I that's why I added entirely optional, where you have to actually purposefully open the ad. It wouldn't pop up on its own.



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JokerCatNLM (#125339)

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2018-07-09 05:38:31
I don't support because being on sites and games with this type of service is nearly always a waste of time and most of the time you don't get the good for watching the video, doing surveys, signing up to things etc.
Overall it's usually a big waste of our and the sites time since the services rarely actually give out the goods,



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Sivert [Patches
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2018-07-09 05:44:15
No support. Half the time these ads or surveys can link your email address to the account you're viewing from, and then you start getting spam mail from their companies that never ends.



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EntityofSilo | G4 (#107570)

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2018-07-18 16:08:20
I used to play a game on my iPad that has this sort of thing... it was completely optional whether or not you watched the ad but it still took up space and seeing the little green play button pop up in my face all the time honestly kind of drove me away from the game... it updates really regularly so I get that the creators need the revenue but I really, really don't want LD to do the same thing. Especially if it becomes something really invasive like seeing hunting results and having a notice pop up saying 'watch this video for two more carcasses!' (The game I mentioned before has a system a lot like that.. you'd get results and it would say 'get more currency/whatever by watching this ad' and the play button was always bigger than the 'no thanks' button so people would click it by mistake. The worst part was that if there was an option to skip and you took it, the gamemakers still got their money from the ad but you didn't get the reward you were supposed to.)

I've had shitty experiences with advertising like this in the past. It'd devalue GB, less and less people would donate to the game in favor of getting free GB, and honestly it'd just... well, suck. I don't want an ad for an ad clogging up my screen. Ads can be really glitchy. And honestly, it's already incredibly easy to get GB on LD. This would just be making it even easier. There's some games where the big currency can only be bought directly from the game itself for IRL money, so we're extremely lucky to have GB be so easy to come by on LD. This is unnecessary, annoyin and just plain ridiculous. I never thought I'd see the day when someone actually suggested that a game put ads in. 100% no support.



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