Dekaron / 2 Moons have done this, as well PlanetSide2 and EVE Online.
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Once this is accomplished, the possibilities are endless.
We all (at least i think so) run at least one game server, this is worth experimenting with.
Currently, this is the impressions rate for adsense. $48.50/1000 impressions (ad views).
Have an ad pop up every 30min in kal, that, on a populated server, is $48.50 every 1h 30min.. for as long as you're server is alive. Lazy google employees wont even care to look if you own the game or not and just assume its yours, google makes money off of this stuff.
poop your pants now? Lets do this.
Somebody throw up a calculation how much money this is in 1 year. LOL
Sorry for being so slow to respond to this, and sorry for bursting your bubble:
This
What you are planning to do is:
1. Against multiple parts of the Google TOS. Including but not limited to:
- Publishing ads on something you don't own, or have the rights to.
- Against their TOS on integration
- Not documented as a actual integration method (ie, you need to "hack it in")
2. Illegal, plain and simple. Now, we all know that hosting a KalOnline server isn't always legit, however this kind of crosses the line, as you start drawing attention to yourself quite a bit, and start inconveniencing your players (kind of defeats the purpose of pservers morally don't you think?).
Also, if you think Google don't check these types of things out, you are very naive
. They do, as they have obligations to their customers (the advertisers), and they are very strict and very good at what they do. Also, you would have to mimic a lot of stuff in order for this to work properly, and having one useragent always download the ads etc is pretty damn obvious, so they'll suspend your account on that basis alone. ESPECIALLY if you start making a lot of money off of this.
In their eyes, banning your account is just enforcing their own TOS, and the employee doesn't see a differnece in wage from banning you, so he/she won't care, and on top of that, I really don't think google thinks your account on there makes any difference on their bottom line at the end of the year
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