Alright it feels like I need to explain the situation here a bit. So I started TTC 7 years ago, built an addon + website for everyone to use for FREE. I have quit the game for more than 4 years already but I am still maintaining the site using lots of my free time.
The business model is simple. People uses the addon to collect data and the website's ad revenue will keep the whole project going. From day 1 I already knew people are using ad blockers and the percentage is not low. But I wanted to believe in people, I wanted to believe people will help the project they really love so I did not force ads for the past 7 years.
I have tried like 5 different banners to explain the situation and the need for Ad revenue to keep the project alive. But 7 years past and the result was pretty disappointing. Percentage of ad block users went up significantly and the number of people who donated was less than 0.02% of the entire user base.
The donation I have collected over the course of the past 7 years was just barely able to pay for 2 years of the server's cost. If everyone was using adblocker it will mean that I would have paid 5 figures out of my own pocket in additional to all the free time I have spend to maintain and develop this project.
Based on the growth rate of adblock users I will probably have to shutdown the entire project in about 2 years from now. So there are only 2 options before me if I do not want that to happen
1. Force ads on everyone and allow people to sub for ad free content
2. I start selling the data by offering premium(paid) customers access to real time API when a cheap item is made available.
I do not like the level of P2W #2 brings even though it will probably yield me much higher revenue compared to #1
It was a hard decision but something has to be done. Prior to turning the anti-ad block wall on I further reduced the ad load (slider is lowered to about 20% mark) and made the change so that you will never see more than 2 ads on your screen (1 for smaller screen) and there are at most 3 ads per page (2 for small screen). Full page ads are set to about <1% chance of appearing. Regular users shouldn't see the full screen ad more than once per day.
So please. I am not asking for too much. Having some ads on your screen is not the end of world but no ads will be the end of TTC.
No, you're wrong. You have a choice to continue using his service or not. And moreover, you're telling the addon creator what to do with his creation. Again, if you are not satisfied with the current situation, then don't use it. You are not paying for it.
Telling someone what to do and making suggestive advice are two separate things... And no you're wrong, once again. if someone is not satisfied with the current situation.. you speak up rather than not use it...How can the creator improve or make adjustments if people don't speak up? The key is communication.
No, you're wrong. You have a choice to continue using his service or not. And moreover, you're telling the addon creator what to do with his creation. Again, if you are not satisfied with the current situation, then don't use it. You are not paying for it.
Telling someone what to do and making suggestive advice are two separate things... And no you're wrong, once again. if someone is not satisfied with the current situation.. you speak up rather than not use it...How can the creator improve or make adjustments if people don't speak up? The key is communication.
The thing is the creator has said what kind of things could help, like donations, etc. They had given avenues that could have kept the site ad-free, but it wasn't working. You are using a service for free, and then 'suggesting' the creator should sell their work that they've put effort and time in, so that you can continue to use it for free, because you don't want to disable the ad blocker and you still want to use the site (a 'having my pie and eating it' scenario). The level of entitlement is absurd. Also, what does whether the creator is playing or not playing eso has to do about it? The person who designed esohub, arguably one of the biggest sites devoted to the game, is not an active player, does it mean they have to give up their work if someone has an issue with how their site is run... Anyway, back to the OP: I personally like to block ads, so I won't be using the site anymore, but if it's the only way to keep it afloat then so be it, it's better to have it like that, than not have it at all.
It's not working out because he's not putting enough time on the website to be worth of anything. Nothing really has changed over the past several years..The creator openly admitted to not being part of the ESO community as he quit the game 4 years ago... yet he still maintains one of the popular Auction House & Vendors addons to date. Why continue with this project if you're no longer part of the community? Wouldn't it be a better idea to pass on your work to someone else who is currently part of the community, and can possibly improve the site and addon... making it better?
Oh and this entitlement BS being thrown around is just ridiculous at best...
It's not working out because he's not putting enough time on the website to be worth of anything. Nothing really has changed over the past several years..The creator openly admitted to not being part of the ESO community as he quit the game 4 years ago... yet he still maintains one of the popular Auction House & Vendors addons to date. Why continue with this project if you're no longer part of the community? Wouldn't it be a better idea to pass on your work to someone else who is currently part of the community, and can possibly improve the site and addon... making it better?
Oh and this entitlement BS being thrown around is just ridiculous at best...
Here you go again trying to tell someone what to do with their hard work. It doesn't matter whether or not the addon creator is playing the game or not. He created something and owns the rights to what he created. I don't think you fully understand what entitlement means here. It means you feel you that you have a right to the author's creation to not only use for free but dictate how it should be run.
No, you're wrong. You have a choice to continue using his service or not. And moreover, you're telling the addon creator what to do with his creation. Again, if you are not satisfied with the current situation, then don't use it. You are not paying for it.
Telling someone what to do and making suggestive advice are two separate things... And no you're wrong, once again. if someone is not satisfied with the current situation.. you speak up rather than not use it...How can the creator improve or make adjustments if people don't speak up? The key is communication.
At the end of the day, you are not paying for the content that this creator made. So why don't you quit using it? In fact, you could try to create your own database and service for everyone and pay for it yourself. This is not me telling you what to do. This is suggestive advice.
How many times are you going to tell me to stop using TTC because I refuse to disable my adblocker? I believe I specifically said that the site is no longer functional for me because I have to disable my adblocker.
It's not working out because he's not putting enough time on the website to be worth of anything. Nothing really has changed over the past several years..The creator openly admitted to not being part of the ESO community as he quit the game 4 years ago... yet he still maintains one of the popular Auction House & Vendors addons to date. Why continue with this project if you're no longer part of the community? Wouldn't it be a better idea to pass on your work to someone else who is currently part of the community, and can possibly improve the site and addon... making it better?
Oh and this entitlement BS being thrown around is just ridiculous at best...
Here you go again trying to tell someone what to do with their hard work. It doesn't matter whether or not the addon creator is playing the game or not. He created something and owns the rights to what he created. I don't think you fully understand what entitlement means here. It means you feel you that you have a right to the author's creation to not only use for free but dictate how it should be run.
I don't think you know what entitlement means either... this will be my last time replying to you before I add you to ignore...
The creator does NOT own the rights to the data and materials that he's siphoning off of ESO from the addon users like you and I... If you go to the website.. down below has this:
Tamriel Trade Centre was created using content and materials from The Elder Scrolls® Online: Tamriel Unlimited™ © ZeniMax® Online Studios, LLC or its licensors.
This proves that HE DOESN'T fully owns the content that he has on his website.. just partial.... He's leeching data that rightfully belongs to ZOS.