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Bullit
New Kid
very annoying
#68049 - 07/16/08 08:30 AM

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duke82075
Rabbit Puncher
Re: very annoying
#68051 - 07/16/08 08:38 AM

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Beast_Mastese
New Kid
Re: very annoying
#68053 - 07/16/08 09:06 AM

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Ripper_McGee
Dungeon Walker
Re: very annoying
#68057 - 07/16/08 09:15 AM

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Bullit
New Kid
Re: very annoying [Re: #68057]
#68061 - 07/16/08 09:25 AM

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Ripper_McGee
Dungeon Walker
Re: very annoying [Re: #68061]
#68063 - 07/16/08 09:31 AM

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LordMagnus
Dungeon Walker
Re: very annoying [Re: #68063]
#68065 - 07/16/08 09:41 AM

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Beast_Mastese
New Kid
Re: very annoying [Re: #68061]
#68067 - 07/16/08 09:50 AM

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Bullit
New Kid
Re: very annoying [Re: #68067]
#68083 - 07/16/08 11:13 AM

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Khazandra
Veternarian
Re: very annoying [Re: #68083]
#68087 - 07/16/08 11:54 AM

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Bullit
New Kid
Posts: 5
Re: very annoying [Re: #68087]
#68091 - 07/16/08 12:22 PM

Hi again!
Sorry to disappoint you Khazandra, but I didn't click on anything, except the portal back to Dew Valley. If I had 5-6 slots on my membership account, it wouldn't have happened. By the way, I may be the only one complaining about this, but make no mistake, I am sure there are other players with similar thoughts. That would be a shame if it prevent someone to sign for membership on this great game. Since this is a suggestion thread, hope you don't mind another one, may already be in development, don't know. What about a common "bank account/back space" for your account, instead of having 3 tabs (before lvl 50) having a common 9 tab for your, at present 3 characters. Every time my low lvl characters find purple items, my mage finds nice stuff for my fighter, my fighter for my ranges, etc )) Would be nice being able to easily transfer those among your character and would "clean up" noob channel a bit also =)


Khazandra
Chicken Hawk
Posts: 149
Re: very annoying [Re: #68091]
#68093 - 07/16/08 12:24 PM

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Hi again!
Sorry to disappoint you Khazandra, but I didn't click on anything, except the portal back to Dew Valley.




That's why the ad popped up. By clicking on the portal, you initiated a load sequence, since you are changing zones. That causes the ad to load, while Dew Valley loads in the background. As I and others have already explained.


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mess_ion_ic
Veteran
Posts: 715
Re: very annoying [Re: #68091]
#68135 - 07/16/08 04:18 PM

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Since this is a suggestion thread, hope you don't mind another one, may already be in development, don't know. What about a common "bank account/back space" for your account




It has been suggested and is "under review." Vote for it here


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Tazjon
Rabbit Puncher
Posts: 57
Re: very annoying [Re: #68091]
#68149 - 07/16/08 05:13 PM

Bullit,

I was a free player for 6 months. I have played free games off and on for years and am familiar with load-ads and other banners in and on tha game. (Anarchy Onlines billboard advertising, in game, is my all time favorite). The only ad in Dungeon Runners that killed me was the shoe ads that felt like they lasted an hour. Those long ads where done away with after patch 110.
The point is I still played the game and so did my friends. Why? because the game is awesome. A couple of ads never bothered me. Now I have been playing my member character for the last 3 weeks and decide to play my free account. I diffinetly noticed the ads but still kept playing. The most annoying thing about the free account was picking up gold and items.

And for the advertising geniuises at NCsoft, I would have played forever for free if you hadn't thrown that blasted Bling Gnome out there. I just couldn't say no to the little guy (and 6 months of membership for 4.)
O you guys suckered me in good
And the constant updates
I...I .... I. just can't get enough.

Keep up the good work DR & NCsoft

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Ripper_McGee
Karl's "bad cavern" spelunker
Posts: 2,544
Re: very annoying [Re: #68083]
#68171 - 07/16/08 05:57 PM

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went from Dew Forest to Dew Valley, this time a fullscreen ad for Guild Wars




That's a loading screen ad, just like I said. Not really that big of a deal and, like Khazandra said, you don't have to click it - they last 15 - 30 seconds at most and don't appear on every single loading screen. Instead, there's a percent chance for them to appear based, in part, on how many hours you've been playing (played for 5 hours straight as a free player? - expect to see more ads - that's how they make money off you).

BTW - I've been a member since the beginning and I have several free accounts. The ads don't bother me at all, even the full screen ones.


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Khazandra
Chicken Hawk
Posts: 149
Re: very annoying [Re: #68149]
#68173 - 07/16/08 05:57 PM

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And for the advertising geniuises at NCsoft, I would have played forever for free if you hadn't thrown that blasted Bling Gnome out there. I just couldn't say no to the little guy (and 6 months of membership for 4.)





Same here. I was going to get to 100 without paying membership, just to prove it could be done. But then I saw the gnome, and he lured me in... and now I can use all the purple drops, so it works out great!


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Bullit
New Kid
Posts: 5
Re: very annoying [Re: #68173]
#68187 - 07/16/08 06:38 PM

Hi again!
This fullscreen ad is that a feature that have been added recently, like yesterday or today. I played this game for several hours a few days ago before I signed up for membership, not one single fullscreen ad. Today played for 3 hours on my free account, got 20-25 of those fullscreen ads. Like you have pointed out, wait and after a few seconds they time out. Well a few seconds on a hilarious and addictive game like this one is an eternity. To be honest this evening was awful, stopped playing and logged on to my membership account instead to get rid of those fullscreen ads, hope they give us some more slots on the membership accounts, so you can try out any "new build" without having to delete one of your toons.


Tazjon
Rabbit Puncher
Posts: 57
Re: very annoying [Re: #68187]
#68191 - 07/16/08 06:45 PM

I must agree with the extra slots....

as the great and mighty Nebrius suggested
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Since this is a suggestion thread, hope you don't mind another one, may already be in development, don't know. What about a common "bank account/back space" for your account


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It has been suggested and is "under review." Vote for it here





Do your part!
Please VOTE!
Idearunners


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Ripper_McGee
Karl's "bad cavern" spelunker
Posts: 2,544
Re: very annoying [Re: #68187]
#68193 - 07/16/08 06:51 PM

It's not a new feature. Ads were implemented in Chunk #2 (late 2007) and have been tweaked regularly since then. In fact, I did an interview with Mark Tucker for Chunk #2 and have screenshots of the ads:

Linky...

The size and rotation of the "around-the-game" banner ads is much better than they used to be. The number of full screen ads have been reduced significantly (you used to get one each for logging in and out, both of which have been removed).

You're making this a much bigger deal that it is.

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Bullit
New Kid
Posts: 6
Re: very annoying [Re: #68193]
#68283 - 07/17/08 05:52 AM

Hi again!
Everyone has his/her own opinion I guess Ripper, but on the positive side, in a short time now I have noticed that there are players out there that are really nice and offer help also. Was playing my low lvl free ranger and suddenly someone whispered and wondered if I needed help with anything, it turned out to be, for me, a high lvl 40-50 player that offered to help me. We talked for a while, it was a pleasant surprise and I am looking forward to the posse/clan/guild thing when it will be implemented, I think it will be great. Just wondered are there moderators/GM's out there playing and keeping an eye on things and also offering help to newcomers? The more I play my free account the more I appreciate that little bling guy when I am back on my membership account


AlienEighter
Veteran
Posts: 879
Re: very annoying [Re: #68283]
#68285 - 07/17/08 06:10 AM

There aren't any dedicated moderators on the servers, but the more level-headed and experienced of the DR community basically moderates the game.

Occasionally, one or more of the devs will pop onto the servers; you will know them by their white chat text. They stick around for as long as they can handle the barrage of questions/suggestions we fire at them.

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