Monday, March 13 is Maintenance Day at The Escapist!

[pookie101]

NOOO how else will i make random comments about pop culture items of interest and occasionally video games!

anywho. hope it goes well. that you dont burn down the server farm and dont forget to back up

 

[Scarim Coral]

Is the maintenance finish or not started yet?

 

[Arnoxthe1]

More ad banners. Its going to be awesome

I lol'd. Sadly though, it probably is gonna be something lame like this. They haven't done anything with this site in months. Why start now?

 

[JoJo]

Is the maintenance finish or not started yet?

It hasn't started yet.

 

[Kross]

Hi, sorry we haven't spoke

I still love you

 

[vallorn]

Hi, sorry we haven't spoke

I still love you

KROSS! YOU SEXY BEAST! WE KNEW YOU WOULD COME BACK TO US!

 

[Battenberg]

Hi, sorry we haven't spoke

I still love you

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Hi, sorry we haven't spoke

I still love you

 

[FalloutJack]

The basement monster ate a bunch of forum posts. Blame Kross.

 

[Leg End]

The basement monster ate a bunch of forum posts. Blame Kross.

Well it hasn't been fed in like a year so...

 

[FalloutJack]

The basement monster ate a bunch of forum posts. Blame Kross.

Well it hasn't been fed in like a year so...

I thought he took it with him! I thought we were safe! I thought wrong...

 

[Bedinsis]

Okay, it is March 14(pi-day!) all over the world apart from possibly some Pacific Islands; the maintenance should be complete.

I look forward to the still scheduled Pixels & Bits column later today.

Or, failing that, I'd like to see that weekly schedule updated to reflect reality.

 

[dalek sec]

The basement monster ate a bunch of forum posts. Blame Kross.

I think it ate my two overwatch badges to boot too.

 

[FalloutJack]

The basement monster ate a bunch of forum posts. Blame Kross.

I think it ate my two overwatch badges to boot too.

That doesn't concern me quite as much as losing some of the posts I've made. A few of them were doozies.

 

[dalek sec]

The basement monster ate a bunch of forum posts. Blame Kross.

I think it ate my two overwatch badges to boot too.

That doesn't concern me quite as much as losing some of the posts I've made. A few of them were doozies.

Fair point, just saying it's just slightly annoying but I can see losing some great posts can be a pain.

 

[IceForce]

Fingers crossed they don't use this as an excuse to take free pubclub away from people. There's no way I'd keep coming here if it involves the old barrage of repetitive adverts that mess up how the pages load.

"Excuse"? I hope they do fix it, it's been almost a year now. And I'm not saying that because I'm a big meany who's bitter that he's paying for PubClub and others are not, but because The Escapist needs money to function. And no ads and no member dues are making no money for the site.

It's not like it's prohibitively expensive. Having a particular nasty habit, I literally burn the value of the annual Escapist bill every couple of days just to inhale some sweet carcinogens.

The Escapist was getting all that ad money before people got PubClub free but it didn't stop them discarding staff and content creators (actually leading to people getting PC free in the first place). If I trusted Escapist to take a new surge of cash to get some decent content that'd be one thing but as someone who lost interest in Yahtzee some time ago there's very little content here worth enduring the horrible advertising practice they engaged in before (idk maybe it changed but it used to be SUPER overbearing and aggravating).

At this point there's 3 things I visit the site for: Cory and Grey's comics (sadly few and far between recently), the news feed (which I could really get anywhere), and the forums/ community (which was great once but now feels like it's moving more towards WW which isn't my thing). None of those things are substantial enough to put up with the ads (and without free PC I'd have stopped visiting a long time ago) and I suspect I wouldn't be the only member to just give up on the site if they forced us to put up with those ads again BEFORE bringing decent new content here

Agreed. Speaking as someone who also never paid for Pub Club and has now experienced what it has to offer, I really don't think it's worth the money they're charging for it.