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  1. July 26th, 2005, 07:22 AM #1
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    Next level of Ads in Games

     
    Yep.. ya got commercials now

    Not just banners anymore

    Advertising in videogames, dominated in the past by static ads such as billboards and signposts, is beginning to look more like TV commercials.

    For the past few weeks, Massive Inc., a New York company that distributes ads in videogames, has been testing an ad with full motion and sound in a science-fiction game called Anarchy Online. Today, Massive will roll out the full-motion ad capability to advertisers generally.
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  2. July 26th, 2005, 07:43 AM #2
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    I was just coming in to comment on the ads in Anarchy Online lol. I hope this doesn't make the game lag I'm going to log on and have a look now.
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  3. July 26th, 2005, 08:22 AM #3
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    Hmmmm..... Didn't see any.
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  4. July 26th, 2005, 09:02 AM #4
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    First ad companies get TV time, then they started showing before movies, now video games? Is nothing sacred to these people!?
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  5. July 26th, 2005, 09:11 AM #5
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    Quote Originally Posted by duckhunter-deux
    First ad companies get TV time, then they started showing before movies, now video games? Is nothing sacred to these people!?
    I'm waiting for ads on condoms myself
    it'll be next, mark my words!
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  6. July 26th, 2005, 09:13 AM #6
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    lol vass, I wouldn't be surprised after the whole hot coffee mod crap.

    I guess my biggest grief is that if I'm paying for a game, I don't expect to be blasted with spam as if it was freeware.

    Is this the video game companies way of still making money when people who pirate the game?
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  7. July 26th, 2005, 09:36 AM #7
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    Just as long as they made the ads destructable in game.
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  8. July 26th, 2005, 05:45 PM #8
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    Anarchy Online has a free client and a paid version mixed in, so I can't really grumble about in game ads, as I have leeched a lot of free gameplay from them prior to me taking the upgrade to a paid account.
    Is nothing sacred to these people!?
    More money?
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  9. July 26th, 2005, 05:49 PM #9
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    Im fine with raceing games with billboards in the game and also in sports games, heck i even like them. but once you put ads in a game like CSS or HL2, Doom3, farcry ...etc then no way. i just will quit gamming and do a boycott tot speak cause this is rediculas. next will be like batman in the way joker put commercials in the peoples dreams.
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  10. July 26th, 2005, 07:20 PM #10
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    Quote Originally Posted by vass0922
    I'm waiting for ads on condoms myself
    it'll be next, mark my words!
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  11. July 26th, 2005, 10:23 PM #11
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    Quote Originally Posted by erhan28
    Im fine with raceing games with billboards in the game and also in sports games, heck i even like them. but once you put ads in a game like CSS or HL2, Doom3, farcry ...etc then no way. i just will quit gamming and do a boycott tot speak cause this is rediculas. next will be like batman in the way joker put commercials in the peoples dreams.

    That was the riddler...and one of the most god awful movies ever! And I completely agree.
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  12. July 26th, 2005, 10:32 PM #12
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    Quote Originally Posted by vass0922
    Yep.. ya got commercials now


    Advertising in videogames, dominated in the past by static ads such as billboards and signposts, is beginning to look more like TV commercials.
    This reminds me of the Pentium 9 poster ad that can be found in Halo...LOL... Anyway there have been ads in games since TMNT 2 for the NES. Pizza hut had signs in that game if I remember right. The most recent I can think of is Taco Bell in Project Gotham Racing.

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  13. July 27th, 2005, 12:29 AM #13
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    It just bothers me that they put them in movies...I just paid 7 bucks for my ticket and another 7 for my girlfriends. I want to see good previews and the movie, not Coke a cola.
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  14. July 27th, 2005, 02:07 AM #14
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    Pretty much takes the fun,reality, and adventure outta the game...
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  15. July 27th, 2005, 02:33 AM #15
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    Actaully I thinks it adds reality to the game, but whatever.

    Maybe more games such as Anarchy online will be free for longer if they add ads?
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  16. July 27th, 2005, 03:11 AM #16
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    I wouldn't mind having an ad or two for those campers in CS to watch....
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  17. July 27th, 2005, 01:35 PM #17
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    They're gonna do it in CS? Hopefully they put on little TV's instead of it being projected like a drive-in movie theatre on a wall. I strongly believe commercials can take the fantasy-reality out of the game... O_o
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  18. July 27th, 2005, 01:41 PM #18
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    Ads are fine for me, as long as they don't MAKE you watch them. If they start doing that, it is time to PROTEST!
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  19. July 27th, 2005, 02:13 PM #19
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    Quote Originally Posted by EXreaction
    Ads are fine for me, as long as they don't MAKE you watch them. If they start doing that, it is time to PROTEST!
    agreed

    i would actually enjoy walking by a tv, and instead of seeing static, seeing an actual ad... of course i would also enjoy the tv being destructible
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  20. July 27th, 2005, 02:15 PM #20
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    Quote Originally Posted by butch81385
    agreed

    i would actually enjoy walking by a tv, and instead of seeing static, seeing an actual ad... of course i would also enjoy the tv being destructible
    And, not have every TV playint the same thing, that is horrible when they do it, it just looks so bad.
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