Quote Originally Posted by Fatal Impurity View Post
I think this whole thing kinda sucks...i mean first you lay out a load of ad's to annoy us, THEN you precede to make us pay for a few extra skins and features that we probably should have anyway...all the while screwing up the membership sign up/info page?

This is madness.
The extra ads have been around for quite awhile, long before anyone thought up the idea of a premium membership. And it's been said multiple times, in multiple threads, that a simple thing like using the Adblock extension for Firefox will fix that problem quite easily. As for the added skins and functionality, you'll have to decide if that money's worth it to you or not.