Quote Originally Posted by Ed_N_Ants View Post
When you pay for a service you shouldn't have to view advertisements... If they want to make money maybe they should go crack some FTP games and advertise stuff there... People that defend these people saying that they do it for the money and need a place to sleep... What a crock, the people doing it aren't there to make a dollar they are there to make millions of dollars...
No, when you pay for something you at least should be reasonably assured you shouldn't be bombarded with adds that don't help to fund the content you are using.

TV for instance, even cable as a person below says, the adds pay to run the service. However these spammers use a lot of hacked accounts, and those fresh accounts don't do much to really keep the service running. Even more so because a lot of the gold comes from hacked accounts. How many people get hacked and then quit the game at that point? If anything these adds hurt SE.