Your donations have paid for the operational cost in 2010 and the move to a new server in November (we have the current one for 3 years already).
We basically only run ads from Good old Games, with only limited income (up to now a whopping 68 Euros
). The income from GoG is limited but it is steady and based on the purchases you make at GoG (at least when you registered with them after clicking on our banner)
We get requests on a regular basis for advertising deals, but most of them are rather generic in nature and you don't know what kind of ads you are getting as there is no control over them. I can't look in the future, but we are sticking with the plan that we only want ads that are related to games, preferably to RPGs, no pop-ups, no pop-unders and especially no ads that want to install something (all the stuff we had in the Jolt days of RPGDot). In addition we want to have the option open to kill the ads when they start doing nasty stuff after a while (again something we had with RPGDot).
Our current design does not allow for much space when it comes to ads. everyone wants their ads to be above the fold and want exclusivity and I can not give them that in our current design.
You might have noticed the word 'current' being used twice
There is some fooling around with a new design, which might or might not happen one day in the future. It still won't have much room for ads, Just one or two two above the fold on the home page and just one on all pages (similar to what we have now).
Having ads on RPGWatch was and is not high on the priority list right now.