Diabloii.net sucks ass

[WarBlade]

1. But if it's superfluous, will that then cost bandwidth for them? If it's a very rarely visited page, it won't consume much bandwidth either. If it IS often visited though, it's not superfluous per definition.

"Superfluous" is in the eye of the beholder. Have you actually read many of the articles/'character guides' that appear there? :blink: When the bulk of it starts to look like B Grade shlock movies (and surprisingly has a captive audience) I begin to wonder why all the bother to have so much of it there in the first place.

Fan Art has gone overboard there too. A pencil, paper and scanner is all you need as long as the art is loosely themed D2 material. Some of it's quite good and probably deserves to be showcased somewhere. Some of it . . . well let's just say some people who are quite capable of sorting out their own little bit of webspace are taking full advantage of webspace provdided by D2.net, free of charge. <_<

2. The popups are at least localized -- I get swedish advertisements.

I get blank pages and a reflex action to the "x" in the corner. The little banner on the page itself has a kiwi link that intrigued me enough to find out that it led me to a spectacular "page cannot be displayed" message. Very impressive.

A problem with what you say is that the sites that's related to Diablo II might be hack sites. There aren't many Diablo II sites out there that are out to make money, except for those. Phrozen Keep links to hack sites right now and if diabloii.net did the same, I'm sure that would raise far more complaints than they get from the use of popups. Is Lurker's Lounge or Amazon Basin prepared to pay diabloii.net if they put ads for them on their site? I think not. We're talking about a pretty small niche.

Fan sites? What on earth made you think I was referring to fan/cheat sites??? :blink:

Erm . . . think Diablo themed items and other Blizzard products that are sold to paying customers. ;) Things that have dollar signs all over them.