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Servers with ads
Banana Hat:
With mid summer starting and wild party's making me want to calm my life down a bit I'm hopping to start up the old gmod servers and make them better faster and stronger than before.
I also hope to make make them self sufficient money wise.
If you haven guessed already I'm hoping to use advertising to cover the costs of running the servers. This should be possible in theory since the source engine allows html to be displayed ingame.
Here are my questions.
1. Would it really work? I'm not entirely sure the ads will function properly in the game.
2. How would you feel if the server you were playing on had ads? I wouldn't want pop ups or anything that would actively distract you from the game however I still need it to get attention.
3. Hopefully this would be able to cover the costs of upgrading my bandwidth. Do you think this would make enough money per month to cover my bill?
jimonions:
Instead of having adds pop up ingame wouldnt it be easier to show them on server join? or/and in the case of matches on round end and map change? I wouldnt mind having adds popup ingame as long as they dont completely distract or cover the gameplay.
As for the technicalthings i dont know but it shud be possible.
Banana Hat:
--- Quote from: jimonions on June 30, 2010, 05:18:40 AM ---Instead of having adds pop up ingame wouldnt it be easier to show them on server join? or/and in the case of matches on round end and map change? I wouldnt mind having adds popup ingame as long as they dont completely distract or cover the gameplay.
As for the technicalthings i dont know but it shud be possible.
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I was thinking of adding them to the spawn menu. Opening the menu happens frequently and would result in a large amount of views. Doing this during loading time would be impossible.
Peetah:
My Idea. And it has been used once in a game.
Put adds within the map. Like on bill board would actually add realism.
Put them in like spawn area since there will be ppl always there.
ArTIk*BaNAnA:
I wouldn't mind if you put ads.
--- Quote from: Peetah on June 30, 2010, 07:38:57 AM ---My Idea. And it has been used once in a game.
Put adds within the map. Like on bill board would actually add realism.
Put them in like spawn area since there will be ppl always there.
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Do this ^ =O
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