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Servers with ads
« on: June 30, 2010, 04:39:37 AM »
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?
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Re: Servers with ads
« Reply #1 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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Re: Servers with ads
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2010, 05:41:36 AM »
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.

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.
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Re: Servers with ads
« Reply #3 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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Re: Servers with ads
« Reply #4 on: June 30, 2010, 07:42:15 AM »
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.

Do this ^ =O
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Re: Servers with ads
« Reply #5 on: June 30, 2010, 08:36:11 AM »
Quote from: ArTIk*BaNAnA on June 30, 2010, 07:42:15 AM
I wouldn't mind if you put ads.

Do this ^ =O
lol I don't think I would get money for that.
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Re: Servers with ads
« Reply #6 on: June 30, 2010, 09:53:27 AM »
Quote from: Banana Hat on June 30, 2010, 08:36:11 AM
lol I don't think I would get money for that.

i don't think you'd ge tmoney for adding them in the q menu either...sure you'll seem them when you open the menu but don't you only ge tmoney when you click on them?
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Re: Servers with ads
« Reply #7 on: June 30, 2010, 11:27:54 AM »
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.
This^

Add props that have Ads, and shiz like that. Maybe add it in the name? 'sponsored by blah.blablah.blah'
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Re: Servers with ads
« Reply #8 on: June 30, 2010, 12:28:13 PM »
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Re: Servers with ads
« Reply #9 on: June 30, 2010, 12:31:31 PM »
Quote from: Banana Hat on June 30, 2010, 08:36:11 AM
lol I don't think I would get money for that.


banana you would have to make a custom map and tie the billboard to a custom entity then make the entity in lua hhtp.connect and get the ads for you so no matter what every time a player sees it you get money
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Re: Servers with ads
« Reply #10 on: June 30, 2010, 01:20:09 PM »
if i pt that in the maps, would work for you?


i would gladly donate to rnd but coolz doesnt want my money </3
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Re: Servers with ads
« Reply #11 on: June 30, 2010, 01:51:35 PM »
Quote from: «-= Magic =-» on June 30, 2010, 01:20:09 PM
if i pt that in the maps, would work for you?


i would gladly donate to rnd but coolz doesn't want my money </3

if coolz don't want your money, then ill take it :) and this is a brilliant idea.
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Re: Servers with ads
« Reply #12 on: June 30, 2010, 02:25:44 PM »
Quote from: «-= Magic =-» on June 30, 2010, 01:20:09 PM
if i pt that in the maps, would work for you?


i would gladly donate to rnd but coolz doesnt want my money </3

do it anyway. he's a not-reason-don't-want-moneyç
I think it's because the donators will think they are superior to non-donators. Or because he doesn't want to feel like owing people shiz. Or maybe he just doesn't want money.
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Re: Servers with ads
« Reply #13 on: June 30, 2010, 08:54:16 PM »
In my OPINION, not trying to me a jerk to anyone here but if you cant afford to run a server and have ads pay for the whole thing, then you should not be running it at all. But that's just me, you guys may have different reasons but I think the Menu ad thing will drive away players.
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Re: Servers with ads
« Reply #14 on: July 01, 2010, 08:23:42 AM »
Quote from: lolwut on June 30, 2010, 08:54:16 PM
In my OPINION, not trying to me a jerk to anyone here but if you cant afford to run a server and have ads pay for the whole thing, then you should not be running it at all. But that's just me, you guys may have different reasons but I think the Menu ad thing will drive away players.

I respect your opinion. I'm not a big fan of ads ether infarct I find them kind of useless. This was simply and idea to cover my service bill if i got a bandwidth upgrade. large bandwidth means i can have a large amount of players and if the adds ran on a pay per view system I would get money every time someone opened the q menu. Which happens a lot.



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