Xylogeist

October 07, 2009 at 7:06am

I have no problem with ingame advertising as long as it isnt that lying sham Obama >_> Damn you max pc! You just HAD to put that lying, theiving, socialist POS in your magazine...

vistageek

October 06, 2009 at 5:23pm

I really don't mind in game advertising, however, the amount in burnout paradise was just a little over the top. Just a little less and it is ok. And only put it where it is really realistic.

Morete

October 06, 2009 at 5:13pm

The cost to pay salaries for more coders to put advertisements in the game, extra server space and cost to constantly maintain and change the advertisements are actually going to drive up costs.  Investors of game developers and publishers are not going to cut their throats by taking the gamble of increased revenue with adding adverts to their source code and then give the paying customers a discount.  Corporations and investors are in business to make money, and drive up profits as quickly as possible.  As long as there are the masses of sheeple to continue patronizing their products, they will buy low and sell high. 

If your preferred FPS game has adverts and it is upsetting enough that you don't want to play it, then what is the alternative?  There is none.  Play a second-rate game or not play at all.  They have us over a barrel.  Boycotting a game is the only option, but in mass, that will never happen.   

Vegan

October 06, 2009 at 3:31pm

“Imagine playing a Major League Baseball
game with no ads behind home plate, next to the scoreboard or on the
outfield wall"

 Wait, that actually sounds pretty awesome. I want THAT reality.

 Saying it adds to the realism is a cop-out. This was our one chance at experiencing sports, racing, etc. WITHOUT all that crap.

zeringue

October 06, 2009 at 1:14pm

If they lower the price of the game why not a few in game ads that appear real and dont stop the game play.

Rob86

October 06, 2009 at 1:00pm

i see no reason why this is a bad thing as long as it doesn't affect game performance in any way, including my ping times :)

Balgaroo

October 06, 2009 at 12:43pm

Its funny because I've always hated anything that deals with adds because they have always been a distraction.  Such as popups, new pages opening, really loud voices yelling at you, but if they can intertwine the commercials into the background and make them look like part of the game then I'm fine with it and yes I do believe it enhances the realism of some game.

They could even take it one step further and put local commercials in the fake radio stations such as GTA.  You know "come on down to Tobey's bar after your drive around the city and check out the ass here".  They would have to have a lot of control on what would be allowed to be in the game, again not to distract from the world but I think it would be awesome.

I Jedi

October 06, 2009 at 12:19pm

Yeah, I'm not too sure I want to cough up the extra bandwidth required to load each individual ad in game. It adds to the realism, I agree, but if I'm running on a cap per month limit, then I don't want to give the extra packets away to advertisements. I would only be comfortable with in-game ads if the servers I were playing on didn't cost me any money to play on. Hopefully, the servers I play on aren't feeding the ads directly, and instead the ads are directed through some site that my host file blocks...

rjzdanis

October 06, 2009 at 12:09pm

Don't tell me that most gamers like advertising because it enhances realism in their games.  Seriously.  I can understand an Epic, AMD or Nvidia logo here and there but not because it enhances my gaming experience.  I accept it because I've rationalized that these three and a few others have either directly or indirectly made playing possible and in fact enhanced my gaming experience.

Advertising of anything unrelated to the game, however, has nothing to do with improving the game or making it more realistic.  In my opinion it does exactly the opposite and detracts from enjoyable game play.  Simply put, I don't want advertising in my games.  If I want advertising, I'll turn on the TV, read a magazine or ride the bus.

Tell me you're inserting advertising in the game I've purchased because it's an additional revenue source and it adds to Microsoft's bottom line.  I may not like it and if so, I'll vote with my wallet. But don't tell me it enhances my gaming experience.

Hey JJ - if you truly believe your research, here's a challenge for you...get Microsoft to sell two versions of the same game; one with and one without advertising.  Sell them for the same price and label the game's packaging so the buyer knows what he/she is buying.  Let's see which sells better and holler back clown.

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