As I think others have said, I don't think there's any possible way to make enough money off of advertising to make a subscription-dependent MMO run by itself.
Poll: Replace monthly fees with in game advertising?
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Well, I suppose it depends on the game and the product. Some things just wouldn't match up and would hurt the game's immersion. But in down-time, like loading times (as mentioned before) it would be fine. I just go off and do something else during long load times anyway.
Well, I suppose it depends on the game and the product. Some things just wouldn't match up and would hurt the game's immersion. But in down-time, like loading times (as mentioned before) it would be fine. I just go off and do something else during long load times anyway.
When you think about the amount of money in advertising I think it IS possible, besides, that's what the other options in the pole are forNeutralDrow said:
Definitely NOT! Advertising gets so bad that if you let it loose in any MMO it will take over like the virus it is and destroy it!
I think it would be a bad idea because they would still charge you and have ingame advertising and make twice as much money. Although as long as the adverts didn't affect the gameplay it would be a great idea.
The other options in the poll are worthless without more information. So I guess..."partly"?painfull2006 said:When you think about the amount of money in advertising I think it IS possible, besides, that's what the other options in the pole are forNeutralDrow said:
Maybe give the players a choice: during the setup process and billing time (time to enter your credit card number) it will ask you do yo allow ingame adverts and your monthly bill will be reduced (or even eliminated as a case by case basis), or completely advert free but you pay full price -- then everybody's happy. But then again, it will reduce the number of people who will see the adverts...
Personally I would LOVE to throw back a Pepsi-meed-Cola while eating a ration-Nestle jerky, chillin at the WoW/Staple Center bar, sitting on a custom made Levits barstool, listening to Britany Spears's 'gimme gimme' song in the background while talking about the latest quest, sponsored by Hyundai!
Personally I would LOVE to throw back a Pepsi-meed-Cola while eating a ration-Nestle jerky, chillin at the WoW/Staple Center bar, sitting on a custom made Levits barstool, listening to Britany Spears's 'gimme gimme' song in the background while talking about the latest quest, sponsored by Hyundai!
Hardly, just think of games where they have made up there own products to fill advertising space? They could just put real products in there place!
When I say make the developers of the game make the adverts, that way they can make them blend in, any GOOD game developer could make it so it doesn't ruin the game, and any bad developer obviously doesn't care for there target market enough and is more than likely just after money
When I say make the developers of the game make the adverts, that way they can make them blend in, any GOOD game developer could make it so it doesn't ruin the game, and any bad developer obviously doesn't care for there target market enough and is more than likely just after money
As I was just saying to you, yeah
It could work in their favours and that way they'd get more money, which surely is better for the developers?
It could work in their favours and that way they'd get more money, which surely is better for the developers?
Absolutely not. There should never be in-game advertising, at least not in a real-life simulator. Can you imagine trapsing across Tatooine in the new Star Wars game (which will be Micro-transaction based, by the way, causing me to run the other way) with a Ford ad sign poping up? Or walking across the rolling hills and fields of the Shire in LOTRO only to be distracted by an advertisement for Loriel?
But that's the whole point! you wouldn't notice them if the developer designed them! say if the ford badge was on the front of a hover craftMoormur said:
and the loriel was a hand painted hobbit washing there hair in a waterfall maybe just on the side of a waggon or something, id take those adverts over monthly fees any day
While some of you would like to replace some of the monthly budget with putting up with adverts, I am not so sure this is a good idea for some of the games. LOTRO might have some problems with it from a licensing standpoint at least ingame. I can almost guarantee you that the rights holders to LOTR don't want to see the product degraded with coke ads ingame, or seeing Frodo sporting a Nike shirt. Turbine has some really stiff guidelines to follow that way.
Having said that we already put up with a quick advert when booting into the game with the Nvidia screen but it does nothing to decrease our monthly fees. I suspect it is just a straight revenue for Turbine that is never passed on against monthly fees.
Good luck in other areas though. The latest street racer game sporting ads or seeing billboards with flashing adverts would not bother me at all, whether it dropped my monthly fees or not. If it affects my ability to get in game and or during play(stops gameplay to flash an advert) then no thanks I will take my money(full monthly fee) elsewhere.
Having said that we already put up with a quick advert when booting into the game with the Nvidia screen but it does nothing to decrease our monthly fees. I suspect it is just a straight revenue for Turbine that is never passed on against monthly fees.
Good luck in other areas though. The latest street racer game sporting ads or seeing billboards with flashing adverts would not bother me at all, whether it dropped my monthly fees or not. If it affects my ability to get in game and or during play(stops gameplay to flash an advert) then no thanks I will take my money(full monthly fee) elsewhere.
The main reason I don't bother with MMORPG's is because I think it is quite absurd to pay a large (to me) fee each month. I thinks it's ridiculous. If it was free and did advertising instead, I would be much more likely to buy those games. However, the type of advertisments you receive and how often you see them could pose a potential problem.
I know, and they are charging you to not even play the game, just to own it, maybe if it was like... if you go over a certain amount of time then you are charged or only charge you a small rate as you play