FirePowered Non-Intrusive Advertising

The Problem With Ads

The TF2 community has made their position on in-game advertising abundantly clear: no one seems to like ads. While some servers rely on ads to survive, they diminish the player's experience in several ways, such as delaying the player from entering games, blasting unpleasant sounds, playing unskippable videos, and sometimes even punishing players who die by showing additional ads. For these reasons and more, FirePowered has made a point of being an ad-free community.

An example of intrusive advertising.

The Solution

In the past, FirePowered relied on community donations to fund our powerful dedicated servers. Our donations cover the costs for 16GB of RAM, two Quad-core Intel processors, and 1Gbit bandwidth in each of our two server locations. While this is all well and good, sometimes you have to ask yourself, "What else could we have?"

With the extra cash from advertising, we could offer many additional benefits to players on our servers. Some examples might include:

Premium wines and personal chefs available at all admin meetings

Custom-built PCs for our staff

First-class seating on jets for our in-person admin meetups

Luxury automobiles for admins

401(k) retirement accounts and health benefits for Moderators, Admins, Senior Admins, and Head Admins

These features would clearly benefit the entire FirePowered community, and possibly the TF2 community as a whole. After much consideration, the admins at FirePowered have realized that we have to put aside our selfish values, and introduce advertising on our servers. However, we also recognize that traditional advertising is unpopular with TF2 players. It's for these reasons that we have created "Non-Intrusive Advertising."

Non-Intrusive Advertising

The biggest complaints about ads in TF2 are generally that they delay people from playing the game and they are usually loud and unskippable videos. Our new solution solves both of those problems. Instead of presenting you ads in the MoTD, we serve you targeted ads while you play, and they're limited to static images! Could you ask for anything more?

Our new ads are hardly noticeable and will not interrupt your gameplay. We've included some examples below so you can see how great these ads will be!

Not a fan of ads in the game? Simply upgrade to our Tier 1 Triple Platinum Skyflyer Donation Package for only $50 per month.

Sample ads on cp_granary.

Sample ads on ctf_2fort.