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Mario128
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With more people playing games than ever before, the advertising in games is increasing. To me i hate it i payed for the game so i dont want to see other peoples products being advertised. Sure enough in some games its fine like in sports titles but not in RPG's. What do you guys think?
16/05/2007
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Adelaide
nbo
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pikmin 2 had some lol i think its kinda funny
just aslong as its nothing big
its ok when its like a poster on the wall but if they talk about it thats when its poo
16/05/2007
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Esoth
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I don't like it either, but we'll soon see that, as time goes by, there'll be less and less games with no in-game advertising.

Not only that, in newer games, the advertisements - whether it be on billboards or passing trucks, can be remotely accessed by the company. In other words, they can change the ad itself at their will, and they also use regional advertising, depending on where you live.

I still remember Resident Evil became the butt of many jokes when they used in-game adverstising back in the day... look at the industry now.
16/05/2007
Okami
Brisbane
Mario128
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Yeah it just really annoys me. In the future i just dont want COKE plastered every where. They recken because we are fully immersed in the game we tend to recognise it more than tv ads.
16/05/2007
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Adelaide
fantimm
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Games are getting more and more expensive. The rate at which the cost of producing games is increasing exponentially, much quicker than the rate movies and TV costs are. It is inevitable that they need more advertising. At the moment a lot of effort and research is going into how to put ads in the game that the user will see and notice, but that won't detract from the game experience. Soon we may see a 30 second Coke ad which cant be skipped every time you start up a game. Then they will probably start putting ads between levels or on loading screens.

Unfortunately if it gets real bad we may get to the point where (like on TV) every 15 minutes or so there is an ad break and a couple of ads come up on the screen for a minute or so.
16/05/2007
Perth
ICC_06
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If its in a sports game or something like that were it fits in its ok but I don't want to see a big coke add appear in zelda or mario
16/05/2007
Super Mario Bros.
ten four to that!
Mario128
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It cost heaps to make a game but really does a billion dollar company like Microsoft need to advertise products in there games.
16/05/2007
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Adelaide
Guyver
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It's pretty bad these days, adds are every where we can't escape them. It's just like cable TV when that first came out it was add free bliss now it's just as bad a broadcast TV. A cable TV rep came to my house the other day, I told him to get stuffed i'm not going to pay for adds. Just like video games we pay top dollar for our games we don't want them to be filled up with adds, it's not too bad at the moment but when other companies catch on it will get worse, let's hope the don't make a mess of our games
16/05/2007
Resident Evil 4
Sunny Melbourne :p
Mario128
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Hey Guyver thats true there is so many ads on Foxtel lately its crazy. Sure enough if the games were cheaper nobody would really argue about it.
16/05/2007
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Adelaide
Esoth
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I mean... it'd be great if in game advertising reduced the cost of games, but i know that's not going to happen
16/05/2007
Okami
Brisbane
jac33au
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What i could handle and might be a good idea would be launch advertising in games. First to finish the game wins a blah blah blah. Then advertising is disabled.
16/05/2007
Wii Fit
Hervey Bay, Queensland
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@mario128

someone has been watching goodgame for the rest of you check out there website for a full story on advertisments in games

my opinion: well if you ask me in sports games its been waiting to happen and in driving games you go past so many buildings designers are gonna be asking for a whole lot of ads but i dont think nintendo will cave in so quickly shiggy's dream has always been to make great games not lots of money but the other companys I'm not so sure
17/05/2007
Yarra Valley ,Melbourne, Victoria
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Wii-Fan said: i dont think nintendo will cave in so quickly shiggy's dream has always been to make great games not lots of money


HAHAHA! Oh man, if you could make tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions of dollars by doing something as easy as letting certain game textures be changed on-the-fly by advertising companies, would you pass it up? Nintendo is a business, not a gamers' charity.

After Wii's online capabilities are entirely figured out, it will only take one or two production cycles for in-game ads to start.
17/05/2007
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bobbii
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It's the newest marketing channel which I think is very interesting. Yeah, it's annoying for gamers but it really flickering my multi-billion $$$ idea.
17/05/2007
New South Wales
desi
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I don't terribly mind it. A lot of people say that it breaks immersion in the game, but often the game's developers or even its physics system break immersion anyway.
17/05/2007
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RerunWii
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I actually think it adds to the immersion, You can't get away from advertising in real life...
17/05/2007
Street fighter 2 turbo;hyper fighting
The land of Prosperity...ok Brisbane
desi
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It's not immersive if you're playing a Sci-Fi Space Marines game and you see an ad for an air conditioner or for the car you drive.
17/05/2007
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