Curse

Thierry2 · Apr 14, 2008, 10:50 AM // 10:50

I never visit GWO anyway.
Guild Wars Guru ftw

Malice Black · Apr 14, 2008, 10:55 AM // 10:55

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Originally Posted by enxa

Yeah but up to a point.

Its funny how sites with less visits have less ads than sites that have many visits. Logic would suggest otherwise, a site that has low trafic would need more ads to make up for the costs of keeping it up, while the big site needs less ads... but no, not in the real world.

what does a milionaire want? ... more millions!

Busier the site the more server space they need. Take Guru for example. It ran perfectly well on the one server they had until the invasion of 2006. After 2006 everything went tits up. The more users guru gets, the more support they need froms ads to keep it going.

Longasc · Apr 14, 2008, 10:57 AM // 10:57

I think that their new "reduced" design - they scrapped the crappy wiki and website completely - makes people go away, too.

The new color schemes for the forum are awful, and it seems Rushster and Elly are running GWO low on resources.

With Gurus improved speed, that already happened quite a while ago, I see no reason why people would prefer to visit GW Incgamers anymore.

That we are in a dark time of waiting for GW2 and just talking trash most of the time is not worse or better here than on GWO, but at least Guru is still a fully working site, not a glorified downgraded forum.

Free Runner · Apr 14, 2008, 11:00 AM // 11:00

The good thing about Guru is that in the going on 3 years i have visted it i have never had it suddenly attempt to download a trojan onto me. GWO has done that to me twice so i'm always wary of it.

Karuro · Apr 14, 2008, 12:48 PM // 12:48

Here's an update from Rushster;

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This has nothign to do with ads, it has to do with an infiltration on one of the other incgamers sites (not this one) which was fouind and removed right away. Unfortunately Google's crappy system lumps everything together so yes it's a load of crap basicly, this site is fine.

This site has never been hacked dirtectly, once, a long time ago, the ad server had an issue which affected all sites but that was nothing to do with the actual site itself.

I'll wait and see how it goes from here ~_~

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Originally Posted by Parson Brown

Too bad for GWO, that was my favorite GW site before the style change.

Now, if only I didn't have to close two pop-up ads every time I load a new page on guru

Thats my pet peeve at school :P

Parson Brown · Apr 14, 2008, 12:55 PM // 12:55

Too bad for GWO, that was my favorite GW site before the style change.

Now, if only I didn't have to close two pop-up ads every time I load a new page on guru

Sleeper Service · Apr 14, 2008, 01:27 PM // 13:27

I dont see why we need more than one site anyways, the same people post there and here and the threads are pretty much exact carbon copies of each other.

Shanaeri Rynale · Apr 14, 2008, 01:34 PM // 13:34

Statement by one of the admins

http://guildwars.incgamers.com/showp...3&postcount=18

It was an issue with another incgamers site a while back it seems, GWO Is perfectly fine.

EmptySkull · Apr 14, 2008, 01:56 PM // 13:56

One should realize that the more traffic you have the more bandwidth you use. Therefore the more it will cost per month. I'm not sure the exact cost of sites like Guru and GWO but it is somewhere around 3-5 grand a month. has to be paid for somehow. And running a site like this or that also takes fulltime employees that have to eat, shelter themselves, and buy clothes and such. The ads stink for people who can't afford the membership dues but it is the only way to maintain the site. I for one am glad I can afford to be a member on both sites so that I can avoid all of the ads. I still allow the banner ad at the top. It doesn't bother me and hopefully they can make some extra money for it being there.

Whatever the reason GWo now has this warning it is gonna stink for them.

MrTickle · Apr 14, 2008, 03:03 PM // 15:03

Firefox 3 won't even let me view GWO now. I get this instead

Reported Attack Site!

This web site at guildwars.incgamers.com has been reported as an attack site and has been blocked based on your security preferences.

Attack sites try to install programs that steal private information, use your computer to attack others, or damage your system.

Some attack sites intentionally distribute harmful software, but many are compromised without the knowledge or permission of their owners.

azzer20 · Apr 14, 2008, 04:32 PM // 16:32

well, GWO is just as good as this site.

Smile Like Umean It · Apr 14, 2008, 06:08 PM // 18:08

Guess it's good news it turned out to be a false positive kind of thing. The more sites, the better. I know some people prefer to go there and they really like it. It'd suck for them if it ended up closed or something.

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Originally Posted by Shawn The Divine

No actually, I just enjoy hauling stories out of my ass.

Proof it's real:
http://guildwars.incgamers.com/showthread.php?t=470999

Well, the mods said, they said, that she was actually banned for some other things she was doing. I didn't pay much attention to it or bother finding out if it was the truth or not cause I was pretty much done going there anyway. It seemed that there were members who strongly disagreed, but supposedly it was justified.

Sorn Xarann · Apr 14, 2008, 08:35 PM // 20:35

Well, almost entirely off subject, i checked out that site with the graph of the daily reach of GWO.

So I put in guildwars.wikia.com Holy shit, somewhere around 2.9 billion reached per day. For April 6th.

EmptySkull · Apr 16, 2008, 06:33 PM // 18:33

Update. Google has removed warning now. All is good.

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Originally Posted by Rushster

It has been fixed by Google.