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[Roadbeer]

Heffay, on 13 January 2014 - 07:31 AM, said:

We still don't know if it was a company outsourced by IGP, or a click farmer/someone abusing referral bonuses. It's a bit early to be laying the blame at anyone's feet.

Doesn't matter

the mouthbreathers

will say that PGI is

lying, no matter what

the answer is.

[DirePhoenix]

Heffay, on 13 January 2014 - 07:31 AM, said:

We still don't know if it was a company outsourced by IGP, or a click farmer/someone abusing referral bonuses. It's a bit early to be laying the blame at anyone's feet.

We covered this within the first few pages. The ads come from MMOtraffic.com, a web advertising company (specializing in MMOs) that is HQ'd in the Netherlands and has recently expanded into North America.

Infernus1986, on 12 January 2014 - 11:13 AM, said:

http://mmotraffic.co...003721006906936
there is the direct ad link
mmo traffic info
surprise its another shady advertising country company
http://mmotraffic.co...w-us-operations

Considering that PGI has plenty of their own art to provide for ads, I find it highly unlikely that they gave MMOtraffic.com Shimmering Sword's art to use instead. More than likely MMOtraffic.com just ran a google image search for "MechWarrior" or "BattleMechs" and found something they thought was consistent with FD's art and copy/pasted that on there.

Edited by DirePhoenix, 13 January 2014 - 08:16 AM.

[Heffay]

DirePhoenix, on 13 January 2014 - 08:10 AM, said:

We covered this within the first few pages. The ads come from MMOtraffic.com, a web advertising company (specializing in MMOs) that is HQ'd in the Netherlands and has recently expanded into North America.



Considering that PGI has plenty of their own art to provide for ads, I find it highly unlikely that they gave MMOtraffic.com Shimmering Sword's art to use instead. More than likely MMOtraffic.com just ran a google image search for MechWarrior" or "BattleMechs" and found something they thought was consistent with FD's art and copy/pasted that on there.

Right, but we don't know if MMOtraffic.com was paid to generate those ads by IGP, or if they are acting on their own (click generating, referral money).

My guess is the latter.

And if they are acting on their own, what are the odds that the people throwing the stones will line up to apologize? Or do you think it will be more of a "Well, they would have done that themselves if they thought of it first" sort of explanation?

Edited by Heffay, 13 January 2014 - 08:18 AM.

[Sandpit]

Heffay, on 13 January 2014 - 08:17 AM, said:

And if they are acting on their own, what are the odds that the people throwing the stones will line up to apologize?

BWAHAHAHAHAHHAAHA

[DocBach]

they aren't IGP's making;

I told you all, Lonestar did it

[Roadbeer]

DocBach, on 13 January 2014 - 09:17 AM, said:

they aren't IGP's making;

I told you all, Lonestar did it

Wouldn't surprise me

I knew it wasn't Chronojam

His work is good.

[Nasty McBadman]

The bigger question is " did the mech use the hill climb module to get up on the grassy knoll?"

[DocBach]

Heffay, on 13 January 2014 - 08:17 AM, said:

"Well, they would have done that themselves if they thought of it first" sort of explanation?

I've seen google ads for MWO for the last year, but they use Alex's art.

[Roadbeer]

Destined, on 13 January 2014 - 09:59 AM, said:

I can't believe you nerds made me delete posts in k-town

I can't believe

that there are posts

that can't stand in K Town.

[Sandpit]

Niko Snow, on 13 January 2014 - 09:15 AM, said:

These are not of our making. Please contact us at Support with all the source and link-to (where the link leads to precisely) details of where you are seeing these and we will get them investigated!

[Egomane]

Roadbeer, on 13 January 2014 - 10:01 AM, said:

I can't believe

that there are posts

that can't stand in K Town.

Then don't believe it. There is no prove Destined did that anyway.







hey... pssst Destined... are you sure the hidingplace for the proof is secure?

[Bagheera]

Destined, on 13 January 2014 - 09:59 AM, said:

I can't believe you nerds made me delete posts in k-town

I can't believe it's not butter.

[Deathlike]

DocBach, on 13 January 2014 - 09:17 AM, said:

they aren't IGP's making;

I told you all, Lonestar did it

Why are you giving up Sparticus?

[DirePhoenix]

Niko Snow, on 13 January 2014 - 09:15 AM, said:

These are not of our making. Please contact us at Support with all the source and link-to (where the link leads to precisely) details of where you are seeing these and we will get them investigated!

We covered this within the first few pages. The ads come from MMOtraffic.com, a web advertising company (specializing in MMOs) that is HQ'd in the Netherlands and has recently expanded into North America.

Infernus1986, on 12 January 2014 - 11:13 AM, said:

http://mmotraffic.co...003721006906936
there is the direct ad link
mmo traffic info
surprise its another shady advertising country company
http://mmotraffic.co...w-us-operations

These ads have been showing up on Sarna.net, Gamespot.com, and probably a lot of other sites. They seem to be distributed by Google AdSense, and when the ad is clicked they route through MMOtraffic.com before redirecting to a MWO signup page.

[Egomane]

Destined, on 13 January 2014 - 10:14 AM, said:

What? Sorry I'm hard of hearing. Talk into my left ear.

I asked if the hiding place in the wine cellar behind the third barrel on the left, the hollow brimstone with the light blue colloring on the edges, is a secure hiding place!

[Roadbeer]

Egomane, on 13 January 2014 - 10:24 AM, said:

I asked if the hiding place in the wine cellar behind the third barrel on the left, the hollow brimstone with the light blue colloring on the edges, is a secure hiding place!

It's a trap!

[Sandpit]

Roadbeer, on 13 January 2014 - 10:25 AM, said:

It's a trap CONSPIRACY!

Fixed that for you

[Farpenoodle]

Just for the record, I know people think it's completely implausible that someone would spend money on this just to cause problems. But if you're a webmaster (or even just a blogger) who runs Google Ads on your site, Google sometimes sends out Coupons for free AdWords credit. A decent amount of credit I might add. How do I know? I have one in my hands right now. (RM600 is a bit less than USD$200 by the way.)

Now I'm not saying it was malicious intent. I really don't know what the rules are, but I'm assuming doing something like this would probably put your AdSense account at risk. More likely it is just somebody click farming. Regardless, it's not nearly as implausible as you might think.

Personally, I haven't seen said ads in the wild. And I get spammed by MWO ads all the time.

[Egomane]

Destined, on 13 January 2014 - 10:30 AM, said:

Wait how did you know where I'm hiding my unmentionables?

Would you believe me, if I said it was a good guess?

[Sandpit]

You hide underwear in a wine cellar?