It's not the mammaries that I'm raising the issue about, it's the nature of these ads. The kind of ads that use crude strategy like
ie. shiny, shaking, zooming text, whatever it takes to demand your eye's attention from doing what you came to the site to do, like read posts |
Las Vegas text and women's breasts to achieve their end. They don't care about treating viewers with respect or letting us be at peace. They are hyper-invasive.
Yes, the Civony ad is the most prevalent one. If you look at it and see what it's advertising (a computer game, it would seem) there's obviously no wholesome reason to have that girl there with the cleavage (except that "sex sells"). Along with the shaking text and moving parts that demand your eye's attention (not to mention the game's name-image is a total rip-off of the Civilization series of computer games) it's obviously just a mindless marketing tool (the game and the ad). It's the kind of trashy ads that detract from the clean atmosphere that I've come to enjoy about MW.
But there was another one surfacing in the past couple of days (which doesn't pop up anymore today, so I can't get a screenshot of it) that made me think "Okay, this is ridiculous." The one I'm talking about had I think 3 parts that it cycled through: the first 2 were about "level up and build your empire" and "kill the orcs" or something like that. The 3rd stage of the cycle had a very blatant set of breasts (skimpy corset or something) as the only image on the ad with the text "And find your girlfriend" or something to that effect. The whole thing made me feel cheap, like it wasn't an advertisement for a legitimate product but for seeing how many suckers would click on it. Like it was just a marketing research tool (like most of these free, crappy games being advertised these days).
It had a generic name, like Something-Or-Other Empire.
Well, I just wanted to bring it up to the MW devs in case you guys weren't aware that some crude ads are surfacing. If I can get screenshots in the future, I will. I certainly am not trying to start a picket line or raise a stinky fuss about it, just raising a concern. I feel obliged to protect the homeland.
Thanks for hearing me out.
The Civony ad you seem to already know about. I attached two iterations of the ad. Also, here's the address it takes you to when you click on it (there's no link to the ad itself, I think.. it's Flash):
http://1.civony.com/civonygg.html?gc...FRJxxwodG2bCGQ