Hey guys can you give me some advice...

[SingleMalt]

I have a service that I sell subsriptions to and I want to advertise this service to players of MMORPGs. I don't want to go into their forums and start spaming advertisments. I thought about placing ads in some of the gaming magazines but the cost of running ads in those are very expensive. What do you think would be a good way to reach these people? By the way the service is in my signature.

[Uncle Yuan]

I understand banner ads are fairly cost effective.  No real idea what kinds of sites you'd want to target, but perhaps some of the private fan sites might support banner advertising.

[SingleMalt]

Good idea, thanks for your input. I was worried that I might piss off some people here by even asking this question. Didn't want to look like I was advertising here, that would be spamming in my opinion.

[catwhowalksbyhimself]

Also, some of the smaller, free mmorpgs which support themselves through advertising would be fairly inexpensive, although I have no idea how cost effective that would be.

[lugaru]

Also you can try blogging about the service and about stuff in general and put that on search engines + post a link. My website used to see very few hits but once I started re-posting some of it's content as a blog I went like form 20 hits to 2000.