Adverts?

[hindos]

Hey everyone ,

The technic team has recently moved to a VERY expesnive , but fancy, new hosting to accomodate to the massive activity we've been putting on it. These guys work incredibly hard to give us this modpack and even give their own money to make it happen, they are at a loss of money for this to exist. Anyway i'm quite certain that the new hosting is hard for them to support themselves and they don't accept donations,all though you can donate to the modders who made the mods in the pack, so I was thinking if perhaps we could exploit the white space under 'good evening, player' in the technic launcher for suitable advertisments. This small revenue could help them ease the pressure on themselves, would not be profitable in any way as it would go to paying the hosting, and might postpone or rid the possibility that if they were to get into a serious financial state(possibly due to the crisis) it wouldn't mean the end of technic.

Also credit to the idea goes to cheapshot as he came up with it in his post, i just didn't want it to die. If you guys don't want this feel free to veto at anytime.

Please share your ideas on this point and say wether or not you are willing to have such things in the launcher and why.

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[linkthegamer]

To be entirely honest, asking for donations to cover 'server' costs is more then reasonable, but would have the obvious overpayment issues.

On the advert, how about offering the ad slot to people here? I'm sure people would be willing to pay for a months hosting (or part of it, if you did a rotation) to get that kind of exposure. You know, as opposed to generic targeted ads.

perhaps you could ad a tageted ad somehwere on the forums or homepage that does more then just deal with the forum hosting?

While the offering ad space to people on here would be a great idea, I covered on the previous page that it would likely cause much hurt of the butt but as long as the team would be willing to deal with people complaining about how "It is not fair that server A has a banner because they guy who runs it is loaded and my server B, can't afford an ad and is thus not getting as many members."

Sorry I am so cynical to the idea, I come from a part of the internet where drama is king (or queen) and know how most any awesome idea can become nothing but a drama-fest. The drama-fest for that idea would be how it is not fair that people with money to burn can buy ads for their mod/server/map/plugin/service/site/self while this other person, who usually feels they have a superior product, can afford to buy one as well.

[OmegaJasam]

You'll have drama either way, if only from people who don't want you hypertheticaly giving in.

But honestly, with the current stigma attached to 'entitlement', no sensable person would claim that they should have an ad they can't afford.

Generaly with these things you have to just accept there will be drama and do it. Just worry about the 99% of people who are going to be glad to have the security of the server costs payed for instead of the 1% who are /always/ trouble.

[brewspy]

I'm just another supporter of ads and filling the white space in the launcher. If need be, put an ad near the DL links on the SSP and Tekkit pages if the launcher ads aren't sufficient.

Servers are expensive. An ad would probably be the best idea and cause the least amount of trouble.

BTW, I'm looking forward to the new project you guys are working on Keep up the great work!

[vibur]

I have no problems with ads placed on the launcher whatsoever. Despite the conventional (herp) wisdom on MCF that Technic is just a bunch of mods thrown together and is just for the lazy, most of us know that there's a lot of work, time, and resources that go into it. If ads would help to defray those costs, then put them up there. If, somehow, a goatse/tubgirl photoshopped mashup would help defray those costs, feel free to put that up there, too.

Honestly, my preference would have been for Minecraft to be the freely-available product and Technic to cost however much Minecraft costs now. Technic has provided me with more value for my dollar than Vanilla ever did.

I look forward to the snarky Kaker replies to the faggotry that ensues once the ads are in place.

[aarongough5]

I like the ad idea! I think that you could have one ad for people to have, for example an ad space for about $10 a month or something like that, seeing that technic is super popular it would benefit both!

And obviously you'r going to have some idiot post a post with the title "[PETITION] REMOVE THE ADS!!!1 TROLOLOLOLO!1!!11" :-\

[Cheap Shot]

We probably wont even put ads on it. This is all hypothetical. We'll probably just keep paying for it ourselves in an effort to eventually have the technic pack go "legit". Fat chance but a boy can dream.

[Tomprower]

You know even if we did accept donations, we'd run into a problem when we'd try to send the excess money to the modders and some of them would send it back saying they don't want our dirty money.

They maybe thinking "Holy shit, Kaker and Cheap are sending too much, I mean I already paid rent and electric bills, I...MUST...SEND BACK!!!!"

[Cheap Shot]

They maybe thinking "Holy shit, Kaker and Cheap are sending too much, I mean I already paid rent and electric bills, I...MUST...SEND BACK!!!!"

If we send too much they have to start paying taxes I hear?

*sigh*