Microsoft to Acquire Massive In-Game Ads Firm

Blah blah blah, just tell me when Live Gold goes free. ;P

Why Microsoft doesn't focus on improving their games line up or better releasing Vista or Office 2006.

Microsoft is trying to do to much in too little time. The Big Kahuna is getting too big to even move.

I noticed the GRAW demo had an axe body spray ad (Vive Axe!) as one of the billboards hanging off the buildings. Dunno if it's in the final version, but i'd expect it would be. Guess we might as well get use to this, cuz it doesn't look like it will be going away.

These are easy enough to block. Just edit your host file to block the ad server IPs. Done and done.

Fucking cocksuckers.

I fear the day when we have really good synthetic voices for games... Or actually, they could do it now as well I guess...

I saw some mudcrabs today. turns into I tried that new bigass Whooper™ at Burger King today and it was fuckin' delicious!

:(

I stopped watching TV when I entered college. I thought maybe I just didn't watch it because of where I was, but after graduating I still never watch it. Advertisements are just too long.

There are shows I like, such as bsg but now I always wait until they are out on dvd and I can rent them or something.

In the future we'll have to pay extra for ad free games.

You know honestly, I havnt seen any games with IRL adverts in them, sure there's the UT2K4 adverts but that's all made up garbage anyway.

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.

Expect HALO 3 to have Burger King and Cellphone Ads!

Scary!

This will NOT affect the price of games...not even in the short term. This is just another revenue stream, not a way for them to charge you less.

Hey guys, what's going on?!? There's about 30 responses so far and I don't see any advertising sympathisers.


You know the dipshit fools who say something like this


"Advertising is everywhere deal with it!" No!
or
"Who cares, just don't play those games" wait till every fucking game has it then what?
or
"So what as long as it's relevant to the game" bullshit! You'll see them stretch the relevance of the advertising to the game quick smart, or making much much more modern themed games.
or
"I don't care myself as long as it makes the game cheaper or it's not TOO intrusive it doesn't bother me, hell it could be good"
LOL, NO! - When Hollywood can't make movies without blatent advertising, how will the immature, smaller, tighter budgeted game industry do it so cleverly?! EH?



Advertising in games is fucked, no really - I'm not just saying "fucked" casually, I mean it's _FUCKED_

We play games to escape the world, same with books.
I wouldn't want to read fucking a goddamn book set in 2150 or somethnig and every third page there's a line which says "drink coke" at the bottom.

The second I see advertising, my suspension is disbeleif is SHATTERED - it's like someone throwing a bucket of cold water on me, waking me up out of the (hopefully good) trance like relaxed state I'm in, enjoying this alternate world set before me.

Look how poorly the Xbox was put in The Island (so I hear)
Look at Minority report, HOW UR LEXUS, HOW UR NOKIA?
Look at the Sopranos (sigh) - I can distinctively recall most of the bad advertising in that show.
Season 2 or 3, Chris gives someone a laptop at a wedding, Compaq on the side clearly visible "this got reviewed really well, here you go!"
Season 6, Carmella's new Porsche
Season 5, Start of the season or start of last episode, I can't recall - someone is sitting around discussing those new whirlpool washing machines they got, "5 star and all" or some shit - it's so badly done.


Look at GTA - they have fake advertising - the game is one of the few where advertising is totally possibly "right" - but they put in these awesome comedy ads - it's fucking great and ADDS to the game

and even if it IS the best game for advertising, if they did add advertising to the game(s) the problem is they might get like 5 or 10 advertisers and their ads would stick out like a sore thumb or be put in more prominently.


I am totally and utterly fine with "this game was brought to you by coke" before the game - it'd bug me a little but as long as it's not IN my game fine - but once it's in there I WILL download mods to remove the ads.

Fuck ads in Live. I pay for that service, i'd rather not pay for the right to view their stupid ads.

anyone remember when the point of games was to make something fun to play, and not just to make money :( long live garage mod teams

Don't wanna watch ads on TV huh? Well we'll MAKE you look at our ads! And, even better, you will PAY to do it!!! >:(

I hope someone puts out a list of games so afflicted, so we can trat them like they had Starforce.

Oh this is good, it means games will be cheaper... right?

They can start putting ads in games when they start handing out games for free.

This DRINK COKE! is KFC -- Finger lickin' good! going Midas, for all of your muffler needs! to Wear Old Navy! suck Built Ford Tough!.

If you wake up to find the king in your bunk, i would hope you could get to pummel the shit out of him. That's advertising i would pay for.

so what's the connection to this announcement, the Xbox360 and the recent announcement of Billy Gates' AdCenter?

"All right Marines, listen up! Will storm the Burger King joint in 5 minutes. While the Covenent are eating there delicious Triple Woppers, we'll thrown in this new developed Raid Anti-Covenet spray killer. Let's just hope that the Flood won't show up and take way the Cisco greese"