The fact of the matter is the B:North started production on Diablo 3. That is not a joke, it is what it is. I don't doubt that a lot of concepts were taken and placed into Blizzard's D3, as you can see, both games are extremely similar.
Dude, Blizzard North's D3 was Hellgate London, or at least of version of that. Blizz Ivine thought the idea was so terrible that they canned nearly everyone working on the project. Torchlight is obviously a copy of Blizzard's D3, not the other way around. For example, when was the first time we heard about Torchlight? 6 months ago? And the first time we heard about D3? Exactly.
Aaaaah. Well why didn't ya say that in the first place? That would make sense that Runic Games would buy as much ad space on Diablo fansites. They probably did the same over at Diii.net. I never really understood how adspace was actually handled, I figured that there was like some sort of pool that Dfans admins get to pick from for ad space, because I have only ever seen low end game ads, that I can remember. So basically our ad spots are the pool, and whoever wants it buys it, and there ain't nothing you can do about it.
It is nice to get the real answer as to why those ads are taking up all that space after only 30 posts.
I just see three ad windows with Dragonica and some sort of dating site?
Weird. Delete cookies?
For everyone who can't see it, this is what the homepage is currently showing, even upon multiple refreshes and cookies deleted. The other box is when you scroll down a bit, and it looks identical to the what is in that other box, just that it doesn't play a video.
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Hah!
I don't see that because I got this whoopass browser called Safari
And that would make sense. Damn Firefox!! What about Chrome? Does that still show it too?
As far as the Curse Torchlight Ad goes, we have costs in running the website (and network) and they have to be paid, new sites skins and hard work don't come cheap!
I get where you are coming from. Costs and all that. But you are taking up all 4 advertising spots with 1 ad.
As I said before, I am looking forward to Torchlight, I'm sure it will be a great game (minus some of the depth). But really, it is only, what, 3 guys who used to work for Blizz North? And weren't they booted from Blizz because they came up with a shoddy version and Blizz south didn't think it was up to quality. Anyways, I will surely get the game to support them, but I feel 2 ads for the game would be plenty.
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What the hell are you guys on about? Where are the ads?
Hmm, I hope I'm not the only one to dislike this then. I actually do want to play Torchlight, but I just feel it shouldn't be the background image. I mean we've already got a dozen Torchlight threads to do all the advertising.
I just realized, not only is the banner and the background advertising Torchlight, but there are TWO boxes on the side that also advertise it. I think this is overkill, and plain tacky.
Seriously. I can understand a banner at the top of the page, but when it takes up the whole background, I call shenanigans.
We are Diablofans.
Yes, a lot of us are interested in Torchlight, but I still find it insulting to the community here, for the staff to be blatantly advertising another game. We are practically part of Blizzard. For Christ sake, after Blizzard bought Diablo3.com, it still linked here from Blizzard.com!!!!! This is selling out in my book.
What do you guys think about this whole thing? What if the new staff would have put up a Sims 3 background? It would be freaking full scale riots. Its like a Corvette forum advertising the Nissan GT-R!!! You don't advertise the freakin' competition!!
You would never, ever have seen any of the old staff advertising anywhere beyond a banner on the HOMEPAGE, or any other page. PERIOD.
Yeah, it is probably a little thing that I'm exploding at, but after The Curse Network kicked out every single mod who created this site, it seems like they are trying to change Dfans into something that it shouldn't be. The Curse Network is pushing their luck now.
So I'm gonna suggest that either this thread be made into a poll, or perhaps a mod should make a poll that asks:
Should the site contain background advertisements for anything other than Diablo?
Choices:
1. HELL NO! This is DIABLOFANS.COM!!
2. Other game companies are okay to advertise, except for EA.
3. Anything is okay to advertise, including blowup dolls, dildoes, and pocket pussies.
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Dude, Blizzard North's D3 was Hellgate London, or at least of version of that. Blizz Ivine thought the idea was so terrible that they canned nearly everyone working on the project. Torchlight is obviously a copy of Blizzard's D3, not the other way around. For example, when was the first time we heard about Torchlight? 6 months ago? And the first time we heard about D3? Exactly.
It is nice to get the real answer as to why those ads are taking up all that space after only 30 posts.
Weird. Delete cookies?
For everyone who can't see it, this is what the homepage is currently showing, even upon multiple refreshes and cookies deleted. The other box is when you scroll down a bit, and it looks identical to the what is in that other box, just that it doesn't play a video.
And that would make sense. Damn Firefox!! What about Chrome? Does that still show it too?
I get where you are coming from. Costs and all that. But you are taking up all 4 advertising spots with 1 ad.
As I said before, I am looking forward to Torchlight, I'm sure it will be a great game (minus some of the depth). But really, it is only, what, 3 guys who used to work for Blizz North? And weren't they booted from Blizz because they came up with a shoddy version and Blizz south didn't think it was up to quality. Anyways, I will surely get the game to support them, but I feel 2 ads for the game would be plenty.
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I just realized, not only is the banner and the background advertising Torchlight, but there are TWO boxes on the side that also advertise it. I think this is overkill, and plain tacky.
Seriously. I can understand a banner at the top of the page, but when it takes up the whole background, I call shenanigans.
We are Diablofans.
Yes, a lot of us are interested in Torchlight, but I still find it insulting to the community here, for the staff to be blatantly advertising another game. We are practically part of Blizzard. For Christ sake, after Blizzard bought Diablo3.com, it still linked here from Blizzard.com!!!!! This is selling out in my book.
What do you guys think about this whole thing? What if the new staff would have put up a Sims 3 background? It would be freaking full scale riots. Its like a Corvette forum advertising the Nissan GT-R!!! You don't advertise the freakin' competition!!
You would never, ever have seen any of the old staff advertising anywhere beyond a banner on the HOMEPAGE, or any other page. PERIOD.
Yeah, it is probably a little thing that I'm exploding at, but after The Curse Network kicked out every single mod who created this site, it seems like they are trying to change Dfans into something that it shouldn't be. The Curse Network is pushing their luck now.
So I'm gonna suggest that either this thread be made into a poll, or perhaps a mod should make a poll that asks:
Should the site contain background advertisements for anything other than Diablo?
Choices:
1. HELL NO! This is DIABLOFANS.COM!!
2. Other game companies are okay to advertise, except for EA.
3. Anything is okay to advertise, including blowup dolls, dildoes, and pocket pussies.