Ads On Graal?

[hotrian]

Originally Posted by CABAL49

Isn't Gold and VIP all we pay for?

It is, but a certain hacking group is all about graal being free, Content made by players being free to players.
You also need gold to use the forums, and just the fact you have to pay, even once (to get 'classic' status so you can play for free) turns away alot of players.

And an ad between every few posts might be okay

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by hotrian

It is, but a certain hacking group is all about graal being free, Content made by players being free to players.
You also need gold to use the forums, and just the fact you have to pay, even once (to get 'classic' status so you can play for free) turns away alot of players.

And an ad between every few posts might be okay

I actually wouldn't mind an ad in every PM window, if at the bottom, or on the side out of the way.

If Graal made one cent for every display of PMs, and on UN with, say, 70 players, every 5 minutes a player gets a PM and they play for an hour, that's some serious money.

You'd get 12 PMs, and at once cent per PM, that's 12 cents.

12 * 70 = 840;

840 cents = $8.40; and that's only for an hour.

Imagine there are that many players on for 24 hours. That's 20,160 cents. Meaning $201.60! And that's only if there are 70 players on. Graal has like three hundred players on at any time! Right now there are 540 players, not including UC playerworlds.

If each player plays for another hour, and receives one PM every five minutes, that's 6,480 cents. $64.80 USD. Not bad for an hour. And for 24 hours, 155,520 cents! $1555.20 per day. About that much, as right now not as many as normal players are on (near night time ).

I bet you Graal doesn't make $1555.20 USD per day right now, eh?

Per year that's 56,764,800 cents = $567648.00.
Half a million dollars.
Not bad.

Plus if gold servers cost money, you'd make even more. Ad a banner at the top of the forums and make even more. Ad a banner on login server and make even more.

Just don't overdue it

[hotrian]

I already thought about the login server, and then every time someone server switches any stuff, but I figured people refresh the forums thread, change threads, or post, way more often

[Googi]

Originally Posted by hotrian

It is, but a certain hacking group is all about graal being free, Content made by players being free to players.

A certain hacking group doesn't care and just uses "make Graal free" as a slogan because they think it plays well with other players. Viper has been "hacking" since long before p2p.

And you guys think you're going to find someone willing to pay 1 cent per view on ads displayed in PM windows? I'd like to see that. Advertising payouts (especially for views, which hardly anybody and definitely not anybody major still pay for) have declined (talking in per-view/per-click terms) since the 1990s. If it couldn't support Graal then it's not going to support it now. Even if we suppose that Graal actually did make a profit, obviously it's making more of a profit now (or else we would have already gone back to ads), so there's no incentive to go back.