Giant Flash Ad of Suck

Fyron · #1 March 21st, 2008, 12:02 AM

What's with the giant flash ad that spans across the page every time it is loaded? It's getting really old, really fast. Reminds me of 1998 style ad banners, taking over the actual content of web sites...

Annette · #2 March 21st, 2008, 04:36 AM

What browser are you using, Fyron? The ad should only open if you click on the "click to save" tab in the top right corner of the page.

capnq · #3 March 21st, 2008, 07:21 AM

There was a discussion of several bugs with the new ad over in the Dominions 3 forum here. ('The buggy "click here" ad', last active 3/13)

BTW, one only has to mouseover the ad to open it; clicking it opens a new tab/window (depending on your browser settings).

Annette · #4 March 21st, 2008, 09:14 AM

Yes, you're right. I apologize for the way I worded that. The ad page should not reveal unless you mouse over the icon in the top right corner.

Baron Munchausen · #5 March 21st, 2008, 08:44 PM

Quote:

Fyron said:
What's with the giant flash ad that spans across the page every time it is loaded? It's getting really old, really fast. Reminds me of 1998 style ad banners, taking over the actual content of web sites...

You mean at this late date you're still not using adblock?

Fyron · #6 March 21st, 2008, 10:54 PM

For me, the graphic starts out gigantic, then shrinks to the little page-corner thing after a second or so. User Agent String is as follows:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.12) Gecko/20080201 Firefox/2.0.0.12

Even with Flashblock installed, the box for the applet starts out huge before shrinking to a small box in the corner.

Baron Munchausen said:
"You mean at this late date you're still not using adblock? "

Adblock does not block flash applets. This prompted me to actually install Flashblock, however.

Captain Kwok · #7 March 27th, 2008, 01:29 PM

For me, it's just a small tab in the corner, using Firefox 2.0.0.12/13.

S.R. Krol · #8 March 28th, 2008, 07:31 PM

Apparently a lot of folks are now beginning to use peel ads. Spotted the online comics Least I Can Do and now PvP doing them. What I found interesting was the comments Kurtz made about the peel ad. You can find the full post at http://www.pvponline.com/2008/03/26/peel-ad/, but I wanted to direct your attention to a quote from it:

"I have received 10-15 emails today praising the ad and how fun it was to use. That�s fan mail for an AD unit. That�s not just unprecedented it�s incredibly exciting. In balancing commerce with art you compromise and being diligent about your advertising not alienating readers. You have to come up with exciting ways to match products with your audience so everyone wins."

See, peel ads are fun! Not a giant dose of suck!

Ballbarian · #9 March 29th, 2008, 12:08 AM

Sorry. Giant dose of suck in my opinion.

capnq · #10 March 29th, 2008, 06:57 AM

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Scott Kurtz said:"In balancing commerce with art you compromise and being diligent about your advertising not alienating readers. You have to come up with exciting ways to match products with your audience so everyone wins."

From this, I deduce that PvP and Shrapnel have quite different audiences. (Of course, I could have deduced that from the fact that I stopped reading PvP years ago, but am still here.) Has Shrapnel gotten any positive comments on the ad at all?