McDonalds and You

Now what... will the games with advertising be actually CHEAPER!?

I actively encourage this. Hopefully this will be a trend in games where you have to pay monthly to play online. I will never play a game where i have to pay more after i buy it, as i am a fickle gamer. I hope they will use this revenue and discout/remove the cost of gamers having to pay

I would never ever ever ever ever ever buy a game that contained any type of commercial promotion whatsoever. i get enough of that shit on tv and radio. >:(

never ever i say.

mc donalds is the antichrist

Now if GTA had a McDonalds where you could illicit sweet revenge upon the minions of inhabitants that would be cool :) I'd love to start snip'n into a Mcys and watch 44oz cups of soda blow up in peeps faces :)

The cans! The cans are exploding! - The Jerk

So will your sim character get fat if all they eat is McDonnalds?

FUCK THIS.
who agrees?

Now even if you warez it , they will make a profit!

I heard if you beat Unreal II your computer prints a coupon for a free 6 pc McNugget.

Did anyone ever play Sega's "Fighting Vipers" (i think thats what it was called)...

It was sorta like a cross between virtua fighter and street fighter, except all the characters were female...

Anyway, in pretty much every arena to fight in, there was lots of Pepsi adverts around... I remember this one arena out near a highway, and you'd see a Pepsi truck drive by fairly often. I thought it was kinda cool to see little things like that in games... It made it a little more realistic to me.

Uh, great, what propaganda! This is such bullsh!+; eating McDonalds food will increase your sim's standing? The problem with this is that the game developers can never present or maintain these endorsed products true to form. Your character will NOT be able to get fat NOR will he be able to develop health risks as a result from eating McDonalds food. What if Phillip Morris struck a deal with the sims? I can guarantee that lung cancer/throat cancer/death will NOT be a result from your sims smoking Marlboro cigs! I fucking hate this fucking marketing happy, ad crazed fucking society, fuck!

And the most important thing, I DEFINITELY will NOT buy into this product if you have to pay monthly for this service to be inundated with advertising. That's more Bullsh!+. Advertising pays for free TV, it's already absurd that you have to pay a lot to get a bunch of crappy cable channels when they too have ADVERTISING on them. That's fucking ridiculous. I want to kill! See you in SOF2

Um, doesn't anyone remember Crazy Taxi? Crazy Taxy 2? Crazy Taxi 3: Electric Boogaloo? Ads don't necessarally wreck a game. I LIKED dropping a screaming preagnant woman off at Tower Records. Hmmm. Capitalism = teh goood! $$$

this is like how fuckin magazines you PAY for are full of fuckin advertisements, now our games will be the same fuckin way

Cool, at least now there will be new ways of killing off your sim - just put him on a McDonalds-exclusive diet.

Isn't vomiting supposed to be one of the animated emotes your Sim can perform? I don't think it would take a great deal of imagination to stage a suitable in game protest..."Hey, I just found a lizard head in my Happy Meal!"

Get used to this because it's only the beginning...

I remember a lot of Super Monkey Ball love on this site, and Dole advertises in that game. =/

Looks like one of the few remaining niches where the corperate advirtising machine was yet to infiltrate has just begun selling out to the man.

Games are an escape from reality, or at least in part. While I hold pretty strong views against the current state of advirtising in general ( read : currently it's fucking rediculous ) seeing EA sign up to corperate graffitti being slathered over games saddens me as much as it angers me. I knew this was essentially an inevitable aspect as far as the direction of the gaming industry as a whole is concerned, so I guess I just didn't want to see it happen. Now it has. Personally, I don't like it - but thats an opinion hinged upon my view of advirtising as stated above.

On the other side of the coin, in some ways I guess it could become accepted if it *added* to the game in question. Say for arguments sake, in Duke Forever :) you're running down the streets on Las Vegas, and unload on a McDonalds overtaken by aliens or something. I for one would take great pleasure in blowing the shit out of the joint and then perhaps flushing a couple toilets, and maybe switching the lights on and off - YEAH ! right George ? *interaction !*

But then - a farbricated Burger joint in the same game that I can let loose in is just the same. We don't NEED real world advirtising in games, it's not going to add to the experience, only further drive the product of large corperations even further - nothing more, nothing less. Sure, it may generate more revenue for the gaming industry as a whole, and perhaps even shed more light onto what we love to do via more public attention to games - but is slathering our virtual worlds to which we escape with the same advirtising laden shit the real world serves up in excess really worth that extra revenue ? Is the gaming industry THAT short on profit margins ? Last I heard it was doing pretty good.

Still, you're going to get 'games' that feel this shit is justifiable, hell you're even gonna get a myriad of really, really bad games appear on the market, for no other reasons than to drive a product - who's production will no doubt be funded by major corperations. Quality will be a secondary objective - just get that shit out there, so people can play it, and expose more potential wallets to our fine wares.

Adding advirtitising to our games may not detract from the actual GAME itself, or even dictate or detract from any gameplay - but seeing any logo or product, 'harmlessly' placed in a gaming world, so the sole purpose of promoting sales is going to make my stomach, for one, churn.

And Legend of The Red Dragon had advertisement for "Dink Smallwood for Windows 95" or something to that effect.

Can we be activisits in the sims and protest McDonalds and see an increase in our standing? That's the only way I see it working, without checks and balances - a yin and yang so to speak - it just sucks

Project Gotham racing has Taco Bell signs on a few of the tracks. Doesn't seem to bother me... but, I must say my Taco Bell consumption has increased since I purchased my XBox.

I think anything that brings more $$ (and the associated expansion, acceptance, etc.) to the gaming industry is a good thing for gamers. Remember, the bottom line is by far the most important thing in any business model, and from what I know, game development/publishing is not as lucrative right now as you may think. Alternative channels and revenue sources will help bring more (and hopefully better) products to market in the future.

will this give my sim the shits just like real life?

did somebody say mcdonalds? :)

whore

the occasional splash screen (like the one in wizardry 8) or billboard (like the jeep billboards in tony hawk 3) doesn't bug me that much right now since it's a fairly rare occurance (hell knows i'm so desensitized by now), but if it starts to be integrated into the gameplay, that is going to be tre annoying.

Wow, shackers are very anti advertisement!! too bad they arent this anti about other personal rights being stepped on

Would it make a difference if it was descrete (like Nike adds on the field in nfl2k_ )? What if they were blatently made fun of (see: Waynes World)?

I think its obvious we don't wanna plop down $50 a game and have to sit through a 10 second comercial every time we start it up, and we dont want to have to make Max Payne go to McD to quelsh is undieing thirst for a tripple thick shake, tripple thick like the crime in the dirty city in which he comes from.

Don't a lot of racing games carry in-game product placement? Your Suburu took first place! ??

Is this really a bad thing?

I think its kind of cool actually. It helps support the publishers/developers which results in better games for us. I mean, I get kind of timed of walking around in games and seeing meaningless unrecognizable places and objects. Would it not be cool to walk through the lobby of a McDonald’s in Half-life 2 or some other game for that matter. Real world relatable objects that are part of the environment. As long as they don't rape the screen with them I actually think this could actually play a nice additional to making the environment seem more realistic etc...

Is this a bad thing? Yes, it is, IMO. I resent the hell out of every flat surface and every venue of entertainment being used to advertise crap. I am not going to fork over $50.00 (and maybe a monthly fee) to have this crap force-fed down my throat. I will not buy a game with adds stuffed through it. The ad in the beginning of UT2K3 is damned close enough to mak eme not want to buy the product.

How 'bout that NVidia add / splash screen when UT2K3 launches? Anyone else surprised by it's presense ?

talked with one of the EA devs about sims online profits and he said it makes over 60% of the profits for EA PC games, but he couldn't remember the exact number

Monkey Island had an advertisement for Loom in it. :)

The Sims Online + McDonalds = Fat ass people sitting at PC Eatting Big Macs playing a Sim eatting a Big Mac.

Ain't capitolism grand :)

so now we get to pay for looking at adds

dammit i have worked for Mcdonalds for the past year and i finaly quit so i could go to school. and now it's following me into my games. wonder if all the shit like how to make a big mac and the QSC bullshit will be in the game. Mcdonalds is a really fucked up company when you get to know it from the inside.

in the FIFA games, there are tons of adboards like real life

McDonalds is teh poison.

CrackDonalds?
instead of gaining status the sim folk that eat there become addicted to the point that they start LOSING status AND get bigger..
Whoa..sounds like real live there..not pretty
<paid for by the friends of Burger King>

McDonalds + Whiskey = "Me chub you long time!"

http://www.cnn.com/2002/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/09/16/offbeat.chubby.clubbing.ap/index.html

so wait..

are they gonna model fat ass sims now? 'cos they're gonna need it..

Wipeout, and its successors, on the Playstation had advertising for RedBull all throughout the game. Gran Turismo had billboards for companies. Hell, all the cars in Gran Turismo are product placements of sorts. How much advertising did GT do for the Skyline? Mmmmm, <a href=http://www.skylinegtr.com> R34</a>.