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The harsh reality is that at the moment advertisers will pay more for your attention than you will pay to use things. I remember when popcapgames did a kicksta
by austenallred 13y ago
The harsh reality is that at the moment advertisers will pay more for your attention than you will pay to use things.
I remember when popcapgames did a kickstarter to make all of their games ad-free. It was basically, "Look, we're making a great profit, but if you pay enough to cover our costs we'll take the ads off." It wasn't anywhere close to covering the costs, let alone to what the advertisers would pay.
There probably are some exceptions to this; people who have a passion or a love for some product, but for most consumer-facing products it's easier to tolerate a few ads than to shell out for everything you use.
- javajosh 13y ago>pay more for your attention than you will pay to use things. I don't think we're given the choice very often. If there was a Facebook Premium that was no ads, no status filtering, and opted you out of the backend data-selling, would you consider it? I would. >I remember when popcapgames did a kickstarter to make all of their games ad-free I don't! That's awesome! But I didn't hear about it at all. See, that's an example of being given a choice, but not even knowing about it. (Pop Cap was probably not very serious about it - if they were, they would have pushed an ad)
- wj 13y agoSo, you're saying that you don't want ads but want to see ads to notify you of campaigns to make games ad free?
- javajosh 13y agoYep - I want the impossible. I don't mind seeing the ads that I want to see. It's a fairly narrow range of things, but at least I wouldn't find them intrusive.
- eru 13y agoThe problem is, people who have enough money to opt out of ads are exactly the ones that are worth advertising to.