I'd like to step in and make a a point, even though none of you know me, nor have I participated in this discussion. My servers(currently six 32-slotters with all custom gamemodes/maps) run MOTDgd advertisements, and my entire playerbase is happy and contempt with them, except the three occasional non-regulars that come on once a week and bitch about the ads. And it's not even the annoyance of the ads, their toasters simply cannot run anything past a staic page in the MOTD. My point is - your ads have to be unobtrusive(or, at least, not annoying) and you still have to provide a high quality gameplay/experience to anyone that joins. Trying to run donation-driven servers is getting harder and harder every day, and unless you have a very large community(~400 concurrent players at all times or more) - you're simply not going to afford the hardware you need to run said servers.
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