The downfall of Marapets
Have you guys ever thought to yourself what would the be reason to Marapets’ downfall? Well, we believe that all the advertisements that Marapets has will be the downfall. Users hate advertisements and Marapets is no exception. They have over 5 advertisements per page - 3 of them are google adsense’ ads and a bunch of other ones are from CPM companies that pays Marapets per every thousand pageview.
Marapets lacks flash games and if they plan to beat Neopets - or at least; attract more of their users, they need to release new flash games. Marapets death will be Ian’s fault for not focusing on the site in the user’s view. It’s turning around and taking a huge fall with all the advertisements, but we have an answer. Are you sick of the advertisements on Marapets? We are too and that’s why we use mozilla firefox with ad block. If Marapets wants to place more advertisements, then we’ll just block them all!
After all, how are we supporting them? We’re supporting them by playing Marapets, attracting more users, and spending money on the account upgrades. We’ve never purchased an account upgrade and we will never buy one - however; the money earnt by browsing Marapets is only making mara richer to invest into new features, right? Wrong - have we seen any new flash games? Nope, just dress up games. Dress up games are boring, we want more flash games.
If Neopets didn’t learn by having advertisements - and having their advertisements blocked by the users, then Marapets will. The advertisements are ridiculous and they have to go. Why do they need so many if the have account upgrades?
Remember to place the following in your ad filter (new filter use * as a wildcard):
http://images.marapets.com/adverts.htm
http://www.images.marapets.com/adverts4.htm
http://www.images.marapets.com/adverts5.htm
http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/ads?client=ca-pub-7223652464040910
If the advertisements aren’t the downfall of marapets then what do you think will be the cause of their downfall?
I agree with you 100%.
Ads are a big turn off for new and old players, when someone goes to a site and sees a batch of ads a page they will turn around and leave. They would attract much more users if they had only a few or no ads, I believe they make enough money to afford that.
Great article!
Comment by Ro — October 31, 2007 @ 1:19 pm
Firefox adblock… that is why Marapets will never have a “downfall” with me. I have never seen a single ad.
Comment by Heatherina — December 23, 2007 @ 9:32 am
How long have you been using ad block?
Comment by admin — December 23, 2007 @ 2:29 pm