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Eve Advertising Blitz
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TackyTachy1
Doomheim
#1 - 2016-07-10 04:05:21 UTC
Well, maybe not that much of a blitz, but I just ran into an Eve ad at Cracked.Com, and I was wondering was that appropriate? Those people over there are a bit whacked (except me, of course) and the question is should Eve ads be displayed in such a whacky sort of venue? Or it could just be that Google pretty well runs that universe and they are simply targeting my whacky posterior?

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Malakye Appleton
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#2 - 2016-07-10 06:16:50 UTC
Probably a re-marketing banner. You come to Eveonline.com and the ads appear on different sites you frequent.

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Intandofisa
#3 - 2016-07-10 10:34:46 UTC
Sounds cracked, to me. Shocked

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Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#4 - 2016-07-10 11:18:41 UTC
There's actually quite a bit of Eve related content at cracked, it features regularly in their "biggest [short form of Richard] moves in online gaming" articles so it sort of makes sense to advertise there.

There again it's just as likely to be google being its usual advertising overlord self.

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Cristl
#5 - 2016-07-10 12:22:27 UTC
Paranoid Loyd
#6 - 2016-07-10 15:04:51 UTC
I think you need to educate yourself on how online advertising works.

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TackyTachy1
Doomheim
#7 - 2016-07-10 18:07:06 UTC
Paranoid Loyd wrote:
I think you need to educate yourself on how online advertising works.


I suspect that everybody here knows exactly how online marketing works but it makes for a delightfully humorous forum thread. But there are those who take everything written in an internet forum serious, which, to stretch the definition of the word a bit, is a variant of paranoia.

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Princess Adhara
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Gallente Federation
#8 - 2016-07-10 18:15:19 UTC
Mortlake
Republic Military School
#9 - 2016-07-10 20:05:59 UTC
You are being monitored.

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ShahFluffers
Ice Fire Warriors
#10 - 2016-07-10 20:22:45 UTC
TackyTachy1 wrote:
Well, maybe not that much of a blitz, but I just ran into an Eve ad at Cracked.Com, and I was wondering was that appropriate? Those people over there are a bit whacked (except me, of course) and the question is should Eve ads be displayed in such a whacky sort of venue?

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You mean... should ads about a game known for insane min/maxing, spreadsheets, suicide ganking, espionage, corporate heists that affect hundreds of people negatively, inconceivable meta-gaming, unrestricted warfare, and general "see the world burn" mentality be displayed on a site known for making fun of the excesses and absurdities of humanity?


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TackyTachy1
Doomheim
#11 - 2016-07-11 03:33:52 UTC
ShahFluffers wrote:
TackyTachy1 wrote:
Well, maybe not that much of a blitz, but I just ran into an Eve ad at Cracked.Com, and I was wondering was that appropriate? Those people over there are a bit whacked (except me, of course) and the question is should Eve ads be displayed in such a whacky sort of venue?

...

You mean... should ads about a game known for insane min/maxing, spreadsheets, suicide ganking, espionage, corporate heists that affect hundreds of people negatively, inconceivable meta-gaming, unrestricted warfare, and general "see the world burn" mentality be displayed on a site known for making fun of the excesses and absurdities of humanity?


Are you new here? Lol


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