Ad's = More games

Since the existence of ad-block plus plugin for Firefox, or any other plugins people still make a lot of money from ads. People Do click on ads, and even if they don’t the website owner can usually use between a CPC ad and a CPM ad.

Some sites like adf.ly have banners, that give money even if you are not clicking on them. (clicking on them gives obviously extra)

Adblock will make the banner go away and site still profit!

I really have a hard time picturing someone who's so opposed to ads that they'd abandon the site for including them. If their appreciation for the site is THAT low, why should we care about keeping them?

I agree with what you say about people who might leave the site because of ad that is a good point. But with a website with a small amount of traffic, and not that many people they would make about $5 sometimes or not even. But if you look at a website like this, with large amounts of traffic they aren’t just going to make $5 - they have the potential to make at least a few hundred in a month, and even more.

I would be ok with ads

I like the sound of your tossing.

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Donations + Ads + Affilates sounds good. You could always do donation subscriptions if you catch my drift (With a minimum of $1 or something).

Membership subs would be a great idea. Notifications would be a great feature for those that can't check the site every hour or two in case a surprise one hour sale is posted.

As long as you don't have pop-ups, there isn't any harm in ads.

I like Donations + Ads + Affiliates

OK, CG, ill go through all this stuff

Donations: sounds good, and as we already see with the comments above mine there are some people that would actually donate, but i dont think it would do much tbh, most people dont like giving money without seeing an immediate reaction to their action.
As you said, short term yeah, but after a while i'm afraid there would be less and less people donating even though the traffic will probably rise.

Ads: I'll be honest, i hate ads on websites. Not because of the fact that there are ads, but because most the time they are annoying as hell and/or are plain rip-offs. You have to be really careful with that. There is this website, steamunpowered.com, that always posts about how unlicensed keysellers suck, or how unfair the euro prices on steam are. Then they posted ads for an unlicensed keyseller that after a little gogling turns out to be a rip-off (no one received keys). Since then i'm not using it anymore, they kinda killed their reputation with it.
What i also hate is those "you are the 100.000th visitor! You won a car/iphone/ipad/house/whatever" ads. i hate those. pointless and just try to get you to send them a text that costs 15$ -.-
Somebody should invent a proper ad system that is monitored to get rid of that stuff, or dont even get it in.

Affiliates: wouldnt work for this site i'm afraid. the way you said i think would only clutter up the site and have no real use for users.

Membership subscriptions: Sounds great imo, but maybe have something like what we planed to do on SGS. I mean a kind of VIP club.
My idea would be something like: if you either pay 1$/month (or 10$/year to encourage people to join long-term) you get the bonuses you talked about, and you can also get the bonuses without paying if you hold 3 or more giveaways (to encourage giving AND give something to the nice people) Maybe make it more than 3, dunno.

Sorry for the wall of text.

I am completely unbothered by ads that are relevant and unintrusive.
If I'm on a game related site and all the advertising is gaming and hardware related I sometimes even click on them.
If it started playing obnoxious ads with audio for cars, cell phones, and tampons I'd be bugged :)
But with a good ad setup, the site should be able to run an effective and revenue generating campaign.

I hate ref-links