Site gets popular, owner has to pay the bills somehow. Billions of ads popping over and under and sideways, load ads, stupid clickables etc etc, imo, renders a game site WORTHLESS. (I’m looking in your direction too, Gamespot.)

Site owners do have choices on the amount and tenor of the ads on their sites. They make poor choices, I won’t be back. Unless they’re offering Free! Game Gold! to all visitors, they can’t possibly have anything I need.

I used to go to Allakawhatsit back in the EQ Planes of Power days almost every day to see what new drops had been discovered. Site started slowing to a crawl, (the ads never slowed down, however) and I was having problems with spyware mysteriously showing up every day … and that was the end of my visits to Allahkazems.

Plus, it’s hard to spell.

And don’t say Thottbot, ’cause if you try to find a drop rate on that, you get eight different versions of the mob, and I don’t like trying to do hard statistics in my head.

I’m looking for big numbers of kills (to improve accuracy and all that) and intelligent consolidation of logged kills.