How annoying would it be to have to sift through all your Starbucks Double Shot Mana Refill drinks?
No advertising, I'll shell out my 10-15 bucks a month.
No advertising, I'll shell out my 10-15 bucks a month.
Poll: Replace monthly fees with in game advertising?
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As has been said, MMOs wouldn't be able to make enough off advertising alone but lowering monthly fees for advertising would work a treat. If it was possible for monthly fees to be abolished completely then I'm still not sure it would be a good idea because then new MMOs would be unable to get going seeing as they could not get any advertising and wouldn't be able to charge monthly fees either because of the competition. I do think that they should consider using advertising as a way of lowering cost to players though, that is a good idea.
Once you've paid for a game, you should never have to pay for it again. Adverts are a tiny price to pay.
Umm, no I don't agree with that statement at all. It's inflammatory and just welcoming an argument and an ensuing banhammer from said argument. It would definitely get in the way in my opinion. I like getting immersed in my games, MMO and non-MMO. Advertising in game would disrupt that immersion for me.painfull2006 said:
Ever Heard of 2Moons?
Yeah.
Every so often, an advertisement appeared and took up 1/3rd of a screen. That wasn't fun.
Yeah.
Every so often, an advertisement appeared and took up 1/3rd of a screen. That wasn't fun.
I could just see it now. Instead of people whining and complaining about a monthly fee, they'll be whining and complaining about product placement in video games. I personally don't have a problem with it. I'm waiting for something like that to happen with Xbox Live(yeah right).
and you honestly think that they got no endorsements from coke?
its blatant advertising but doesn't get in your way
its blatant advertising but doesn't get in your way
Seems like a good idea until your rolling through the countryside and a advert for thrush cream pops up on a billboard... IMMERSION RUINED.
I think its a great idea, but its a little obvious
But Beefy? What does that mean?
It means that if it was feasible or would work in a game, game designers would have done it already or at least started to in a big way
I think that its a great idea, but for a reason unknown to us, its unworkable...
But Beefy? What does that mean?
It means that if it was feasible or would work in a game, game designers would have done it already or at least started to in a big way
I think that its a great idea, but for a reason unknown to us, its unworkable...
Like someone else stated, last time I checked Nuka Cola was not a real product. Also, I don't understand some people around The Escapist. I don't really enjoy being told to "shut up" after expressing my opinion.painfull2006 said:
and like I have already postedwrussell1982 said:
Did I SAY nuka cola is real? no.
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Well, $15 a month might be "pocket change" for some folks, but for others, that's a a bit of scratch!CantFaketheFunk said:
But, I still think the $10 - $15 a month for a game you really actually like is well-worth paying to not have to see the advertisements....
As said before, there are some genres, some games, where it might be possible to work that out, but there are many games, especially Fantasy-types, where the immersion would be ruined..
The Fantasy genres specifically, are places where a lot of folks go to GET AWAY from the junk they deal with in the real-world....
I appreciate, for example, that TNT (Turner Broadcasting Television) has Lord of the Rings weekends, where Friday is part 1, Saturday is part 2, and Sunday is a marathon of all 3 of the trilogy, but, even though there are fewer commercials interuptions, it's still annoying, and even worse for immersion, when DURING the movie(s), ad-pop-ups appear in the lower corner of the screen or across the entire bottom of the screen, totally ruining the immersion of being in another world...
The last thing I really want to see when Frodo is about to decide whether to toss the One Ring into the fires of Mt. Doom, is a commercial-ad interupt stating that my life could really benefit from the anti-fungal foot cream they want me to buy...or any other product....
That's why I bought a DVD-player and the movie, so I can watch the movie uninterupted, the way it is meant to be seen.
There are several MMO's I play/have played, none of which I would want to play if there were ads...
To the OP: I hope this doesn't come across as a rant about ads-in-games, if that's what you think is good...there are some games where folks wouldn't mind so much, and reducing playing costs would certainly open up a lot more games to folks who struggle to have "pocket change"
But for me, I have found that with some pay-to-play services, the community is often slightly more mature....example is Runescape (not knocking Runescape, it can be fun, actually)...the free-to-play service part of Runescape is often habitated by folks...uh...okay, kids strutting and flexing and constantly asking your level so they can strut their "e-peens" and show they're geared and leveled better...
I don't care what level anyone is, I just want to play a game! If you don't answer, you get reported sometimes for "being a bot"...
In Lord of the Rings Online, folks don't ask me my level or my profession(s) and their respective levels, most folks just play and wave or spar or play music or chat, and sometimes jack nodes, but the climate, the immersion, is a much more pleasing environment than in Runescape...
If ads replaced the monthly subscription costs, perhaps the revenue would increase the amount in a developer's coffers, thus pleasing shareholders ad nauseum, but the environment would change dramatically, and it would send people away...
Perhaps a choice of either playing on a free-server or a pay-server would make a difference, but it seems that the servers would play differently...
In my case, I don't have the "pocket change" to play several different games at the same time, but I REALLY like the environment of the game I play now, and don't want to see that change...
Anyway, long story short....for me, I really prefer the pay model I am using with LotRO, but, can understand why someone would want an ad-model, just so they could access the same game, they would otherwise not be able to play...
Sorry for the wall-'o-text....
Happy gaming, everyone!