Annoying Online Gaming Adverts

schweiz

Dear bikeradar team,

Now I know that from a Future Publishing point of view advertising revenue is what bikeradar is all about. Sure it allows a community to form and gives your journos a feel for what issues are important to your actual/potential paper magzine readers, again increasing revenue however.....

Those annoying on-line gaming adverts for World of Warcraft and such like. I'm not interested in them and I don't like that fact that the adverts are intrusive on my browsing by starting the music automatically without me clicking on the advert or even a mouse-over event. So whilst I accept that the adverts have to stay to help pay for bikeradar, can you please request that the company responsible for the advertising turn off the sound unless it is selected on?

Yes, I can turn down or mute the volume but then I will miss Skype events that I want to hear.

Cheers,

Schweiz

schweiz

still doing it!!

any comment from the BR team?

Anonymous

Hi,

Can you take a screengrab and send it to me please?

thanks
Matt

warpcow

I was just going to post on the same subject. They are incredibly irritating. At the moment there are 2 (both for online fantasy RPGs): 'Shaiyla' and 'Lord of Ultima'. It's been going on for at least a month now. Those ads aren't always there, so I tend to forget about it after a while but it's happened 4 times to me already this morning, and for some reason the music always mutes whatever else I might be listening to at the time.

schweiz

That's them and last night I got a new one for a 'Virtual Farm'

Anonymous

As above - screengrab and send to me please.

schweiz

I'm at work at the moment and as they are ads for online gaming they get blocked. I'll send some tonight when at home.

warpcow

Here they are, right hand side, where it says 'Shaiyla' in the first image and a yellow 'Click to play' button in the second.

schweiz

Thanks warpcow

schweiz

The farming one that came up last night was for

myfreefarm.de

but I assume that the .co.uk version appears for UK users

Anonymous

Chaps - can i double-check what country you're viewing the site from please? ta

schweiz

Switzerland

Anonymous

Just to let you know our ads team are looking into this and will get it blocked ASAP.

schweiz

Thank you

warpcow

Sweden for me. Thanks.

Anonymous

Hi again,

I've been told the offending adverts have now been blocked. Could you please clear your cache and all should be well.

Apologies for this, and thanks for letting us know.

Any more problems, please let us know.

Matt

warpcow

Thanks! I haven't noticed any now while having a quick look around. Just those annoying CRC ads to get rid of now (the ones that can actually take my money )

schweiz

Thank you!

The ads are still there but now with no sound...

warpcow

They're back! This time in the banners at the top. Like this:



You can't see it in the capture but it's for a game called "Shaiyla: Eternity", there was another which didn't even have a name. It just kept looping a video with the names of characters in the game.

Thanks.

schweiz

I noticed it too at weekend but in fairness, the music only started with a mouse-over event and stopped as soon as the pointer was moved off the advert. The top banner is usually off the screen for me. However, I would prefer nothing unless I actually click it.

warpcow

Yeah, just noticed now that you have to roll over the ad to get the music. Must have done it without noticing before.