Aprilgold said:
Olikunmissile said:
No. It's my right not to be raped by tracker cookies.
So, your saying its not your right to pay people who run, maintain the site your currently on? I'm sorry, I didn't know you are a god that doesn't think any grubby
mortal living by hard work should get paid for it. Look at it like this, lets say a quarter of the users here use ad blocker, now lets say you work here, now lets say that each ad that is generated PER PAGE does, about 100$, and lets guess a quater of the users is 2,000, thats about 2,000$ PER PAGE of ads you block, and that money could go to the site, and your not being payed your best and may be layed off because the company can't afford to keep you. You realize that you don't even have to click, the ad just has to be generated for it to give money to the website, in this case, the Escapist, I'd like to point out
every single person on here is on the Escapists forums which they pay to run. That money could dry up, no more forums, I don't think anyone would want that? And video makers for the Escapist would stop being on the site because they couldn't receive the money they should be making because the Escapist can't afford them right now.
One thing you are forgetting is that the youth of today are being bombarded by brainwashing ideas. From what I have seen of what they become from believing those ideas, that is the reason that the Escapist suffers, it is why they don't care that, by blocking the revenue of the very site they like to come to, they are killing the site.
These horrible ideas are what spawn the people that believe that pirating games is okay(as long as they are hiding behind the delusion that they are doing good because they aren't giving money to the big bad company, that had the nerve to charge them more for a product that they believe is worth much less).
They don't care if the people that make the stuff on this sight get paid, for the entertainment or ideas that they bring. They have been taught the radical idea that nobody can own an idea. They are the type of people that download E-books from special free sites instead of going out to the store to buy the book. They are the people I fear as a writer that wants to write novels and other things. Yes I want people to read what I write, to give them enjoyment, but enjoyment and praise doesn't put food on the table. It doesn't matter that I was the creator of the stories they may read, they believe that I and people like me shouldn't make our ideas/stories only available to people who can afford it.
But now what they don't understand is that they want to boycott the Escapist. The Escapist is the site that brought Extra Credits to the center stage. If TE hadn't hired EC, I wouldn't have known who the EC group was. TE brought EC a great deal of publicity.
But from what we have heard, TE couldn't pay EC because TE hasn't been making enough money. We know that the Pub Club doesn't make TE an amazing amount of money, especially since its subscription fee is one of the smallest yearly subscriptions around. So, TE makes its money from the ads, and since all these young "entitled" people think that they should view all this content(a massive amount of content) for free and free of "pesky" ads, the site is losing money. It is because they believe in the "Fight the power thing" along with "We got to stop the evil money loving big business", that the Escapist is in the poor condition it is in that it can't pay groups like EC.
So people, think about this, you are the reason that some of your favorite shows disappear. You whine and complain that the Escapist has taken away your favorite things. "Why did this show disappear", you think the big bad Escapist money grubbers kill the things you like. The problem is it is actually you that kill the things you like because you don't allow the ads to appear, and when they don't appear, the Escapist loses funds to keep the site going.
So all you people that are calling for blood and blaming the Escapist for all these problems, the people that don't think they should have to pay for their entertainment, that all the good people that keep this site running should have to keep dancing around for your amusement without receiving anything from you, you people need to open your eyes and see how wrong you are.
All this stuff you enjoy on this site isn't free, it is created from the hard work, the blood, sweat and tears, of the good people that work for this site.
The way you are acting isn't right. It is like you have come over to your grandma's house and she has bought you gifts and baked you cakes and cookies, but then after you've opened your gifts and ate all that grandma has baked for you and everything in her fridge, you then proceed to shout at her that it is her fault that your dog died from being run over by a stranger, and then you finally break her television by throwing her coffee table through it, giving her the middle finger, and then leave.
So do as the OP says, disable your Ad Blockers, and support the site. It makes no sense to come here and enjoy everything they have to offer, and on occasion express your love for them, but when they in distress you turn your back on them.
