Intrusive Ads

[Umbran]

Yea. I guess free to play pc games are paying you to play them.

The ones with ads in them are not actually free-to-play. You pay by allowing yourself to be exposed to ads.

Actually free-to-play games are either actually gifts, data-mining opportunities, or are loss-leading marketing ploys hoping that you'll pay them at some point. Pokemon GO, for example, is free to play, but they really, really, really hope that, if you play for a while, then at some point you'll break down and pay for some of the content.

And my friends once provided snacks to me when I ran a game for them. I’m such a paid dm.

Did they provide those snacks to you, and nobody else? Then yeah. If everyone was getting fed, then no.

If Morrus says, "That person is of great value to the site, I should give them something other people don't get in return," then he'd be paying for their activity, yeah.

 

[The Firebird]

Actually free-to-play games are either actually gifts, data-mining opportunities, or are loss-leading marketing ploys hoping that you'll pay them at some point.

Next we can say nothing is free to play because everything has opportunity costs...language can't always be perfect, but "pay" and "free" relating to money is a common usage, and it doesn't make sense to insist that someone is wrong for adopting that usage.

 

[FrogReaver]

The ones with ads in them are not actually free-to-play. You pay by allowing yourself to be exposed to ads.

The absolute irony here is that this is about site ads. If I’m paying either by exposure to ads or by paying to get the ads removed then we could frame that as prolific posters who cause others to sub are paying the site with their time/posts. If they are paying the site then the site offering things in return for their pay isn’t the site paying them.

 

[Morrus]

The absolute irony here is that this is about site ads. If I’m paying either by exposure to ads or by paying to get the ads removed then we could frame that as prolific posters who cause others to sub are paying the site with their time/posts. If they are paying the site then the site offering things in return for their pay isn’t the site paying them.

Allow me to make this really, really clear, Frogreaver, since you won't let it go. I'm not going to pay you to post. If you think your presence in this community is so valuable that you should be compensated for it, your only option really is to "quit" this non-paying job. Because you ain't gonna be paid for it.

Jeez. The entitlement. This conversation is over.

 

[Umbran]

Next we can say nothing is free to play because everything has opportunity costs

Well, you don't pay opportunity cost to the person who provides the game. So it really isn't relevant to the discussion thus far.

Edit to add : Whoops. Didn't see this had been locked. Sorry.