What do you think about the ads that have been on Giantbomb?

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#1  Edited By Minos

Personally I'm pretty excited that there are ads, this means giantbomb is on the right track and also pretty excited because I'm here since arrow pointing down and i've seen the site grow. The ads aren't annoying, and have a lot to do with the sites content...(not interested in penis enlargers on the site) 

What do you think?

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#2  Edited By gingertastic_10

Giant Bomb making money = OK with me.

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#3  Edited By TheSmie

i agree. They are mostly out of the way, and of course Giant Bomb making some more money is a good thing

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#4  Edited By Red12b

Can someone post them here, People outside the us don't see them so we don't know what the fuss is about, although there is a big best buy quest thing.

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#5  Edited By alternate

Being non-US the Best Buy ones are the first I have seen.  I have been eager to click them.  I even tried connecting via a US proxy but it was too slow.

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#6  Edited By Smokay

Isnt there another thread about this?

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#7  Edited By VisariLoyalist

does it matter, it is what it is I tend to ignore them personally and I wish there weren't threads everytime there was a new ad

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#8  Edited By Timmy_Wackford

i clicked on the best buy thingy and did the quest. Thought i'd do my bit.

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#9  Edited By sodiumCyclops

It's a step forward for the crew, but we can just look at the larger gaming sites who are already in good money, to see that money can ruin everything.

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#10  Edited By xaLieNxGrEyx
@gingertastic_10: 
 
 
This.  
 
Plus I like BestBuy. 
 
Plus it keeps it free for us, or at least no subscibtion based extra content that we would recieve free otherwise.
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#11  Edited By buzz_killington

Not another one of these threads. JESUS.

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#12  Edited By BraveToaster
@Smokay said:
" Isnt there another thread about this? "
Yeah
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#13  Edited By RTSlord

im fine with the ads, although i honestly dont know why they had that "eat.pray.love" ad on the site, i dont think that alot of people, if any, on this site will want to go see that movie. I mean, CMON! its a chick flick on a gamer site, where most of the users/viewers are guys who would never ever want to go see a chick flick

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#14  Edited By Interfect

I opened alot of best buy quest tabs. I hope this quest set does them good. And I am totally  all for ads on giantbomb. Just not those halo clips before the video... But I don't see many adds since I'm in Canada.

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#15  Edited By armaan8014

Can't see em

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#16  Edited By TehJames

LOL@Best Buy ad, because we don't got Best Buy in Sweden and i haven't seen them in any Europen country i visited ( Denmark, Norway, Finland, Spain, Germany)

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#17  Edited By JerseyDriver

Noninvasive.

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#18  Edited By Spoonman671

Hey, another thread about ads!  Awesome!  I'm going to go shoot myself now!

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#19  Edited By Yummylee

They don't show up for being in the UK. Though they're still pretty annoying with how many of these bleedin' threads they inadvertently spawning.

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#20  Edited By Mcfart

they're fine

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#21  Edited By Minos

LOL since I don`t spend much time in the forums I didn't know there were so many ads threads sorry!!! 

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#22  Edited By ashenn

Giantbomb deserve more money so that they can bring us better content and hopefully give them a bit more too :)

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#23  Edited By Sinkwater

This unoriginal post gives me a chance to use an 8 letter word.

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#24  Edited By DaManGB

I hardly see any ads (except Best Buy), but when I do it doesn't bother me.

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#25  Edited By msaeger

This best buy thing is the first one I have noticed.

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#26  Edited By the8bitNacho

There just needs to be a stickied topic on ads. Seriously, every time there's a new one on the site there are at least three threads about it.

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#27  Edited By Itadakimas

I would like some toast with my poast. Extra butter.

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#28  Edited By zombie2011

I hate them only because of all the stupid ass threads they spawn, like this one.

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#29  Edited By NikoAlexander57

The ads are fine with me, just as long as they don't get to the point where I have to watch it before a video. I hate it when sites do that, just a waste of time.

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#30  Edited By s7evn

I feel like I've seen this thread before.

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#31  Edited By leftzero101

as long as they dont show up b4 vidsthen im good
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#32  Edited By bigx14

Im indifferent towards the ads.

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#33  Edited By DerekDanahy

I love the fact Giantbomb has ads. I want Giantbomb to very profitable and every time I see an ad I click it.

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#34  Edited By rentfn

I don't mind the ads. I thought it was weird that there was a Eat Sleep Love, of whatever it is called, Julia Roberts movie. I didn't think this was the target market for that.

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#35  Edited By Mjolnir

I think the "Eat Pray Love" ads may have missed their target demographic, but I don't mind seeing things that let me know GB is making money.

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#36  Edited By meismike

I think they are fantastic. More money for everyone.

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#37  Edited By peepeepoopoo696

Hey guys, how does Giant Bomb make money?

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#38  Edited By CL60

Nothing, because I don't see them.

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Unintrusive.

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#40  Edited By najibu

they need money to keep the gig going, and as long as the gig keeps going, i'll be more than happy to welcome any advertisement on the site. of course, i also know that the crew wouldn't just put any junk ads on the site 

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#41  Edited By CastroCasper

They are better then ads on any other site.

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#42  Edited By sins_of_mosin

I don't think I've noticed ads until the best buy thing this week.  Maybe they should sell aardvarks.

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There's Ads?

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#44  Edited By mau64

I see a lot of people complain about ads. I personally have no problem with ads and if sites need to use them to make money then fine by me.

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#45  Edited By milpool

If you have to have ads then I suppose it`s ok, who are we to say how they make their money as long as they still provide awesome content.  I think if anyone was polled they would vote for less ads over more ads, but at least these ads are very unintrusive.

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#46  Edited By denj3325

applewood or personified

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#47  Edited By jasta

I dont enjoy them but they arint in your face like most websites.

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#48  Edited By Andorski

There are ads on Giantbomb?

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#49  Edited By Dany

It is a website with 5 employees not including the engineers and creators.

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#50  Edited By mylifeforAiur

Living in Australia naturally means that I don't see them :I