Part of the problem with the Arma community is American players (some of the most selfish and childish gamers on the planet). As a general rule I recommend gaming with Brits, or other Europeans if you are looking for quality players. They generally are better team players and more polite and humble.

LOL so you're one of those people.

In other words, you were wrong, got called out on it, got proven wrong and are now upset. Fair enough.

More like facts and logic but hey you need to save face somehow right?

I most of us would agree that a company has a reasonable expectation of being able to display advertisements for their own products on their own websites. He was trying to stretch that to say that Battle.net 2.0 will be plastered with ads and blah blah blah even though there is no precedent for that and in fact evidence to show the opposite. In the end we wasted a page and a half on it when he's referring to non-third party ads, LOL.

we've all been mentioning from the start. Thanks for wasting everyone's time.

In your previous posts, you implied that there were more than Blizzard related product ads, and said "lots and lots of them". I don't consider 4 ads to be "lots and lots".

Uhhm, there are 4 there, the same 4 I see on my computer. Embedded Rotating flash ad, WoW Trial, Blizzard Store and the Statue ad. All Blizzard related products, and none are intrusive.

You just called me all of those names, pot kettle, etc.

Guilty as charged but you failed to mention your own ignorance and paranoia too.

What a load. I'm looking at it right now with Adblock Plus and I see two ads for the Blizzard store and BlizzCon. With adblock off I see those same ads and a spot featuring 10 day trials of WoW itself. Oh those money grubbing bastards!

You act like people have no free will.

Most of the ads are to Blizzard related materials or information about the game, wrong again.

Oh brother, what's next? Blizzard is brainwashing us! They already gave their reason, no one is saying it's a good reason but this bizarre need for it to be some deeper evil is just strange. Have fun with that.

The reason of trying to maximize their profits by cutting out pirated copies as much as possible wasn't scumbag enough for you? They basically admit "hey we're being shitheads and trying to make more money by dicking over pirates because we know they will want to play our games online". That's seriously not a good enough reason but the piddly money they make on ads is somehow relevant?

You go on and play Internet detective then sir. Find some underlying conspiracy that reaches all the way to the presidency. Please let us know what you uncover Deepthroat. I bet Rob Pardo is actually a relative of Nixon.

When Blizzard release Starcraft it was a relative unknown, not really a valid comparison.

That's the website. You aren't forced to view the website every time you play. Again not a valid comparison. Even the client loader's single ad usually featuring Blizzard related content isn't valid considering you can load the .exe file and see nothing except the game launch.
I think you're seriously over estimating how much money they make on ads. In-game advertising is extremely limited right now, you can look at other games featuring them for examples of how few advertisers are attracted to them. I'm referring to big franchises like Battlefield, not just free to play MMO's or something. Basically there is Intel and.....not really anyone else.

Nope, that's not fair. You are never forced to view the website, it is always optional. It is not required to launch the game at any time.