Ads moving from TV to video games

[Ming]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
in other words
pwned
JM

now the true reason they provide the basic game for free is to get players to try out the game, because a good number end up buying the expansions (and having the game be full of people makes those who have the expansions happy)

I love how you pwned yourself.

The money they make on the advertising is small... not anywhere near enough to pay for their efforts...

[Jon Miller]

I should have said initial reason

they have continued it after that (it was just suppose to be a couple month promotional thing)

which I think suggests that they are getting enough ad revenue to be worth while

also, while the subject is on advertising

Ming, do you know how the show XPlay (on G4TechTV) does in comparison to the other shows on that channel?

I have heard that G4 is the second worse rated cable channel, but think that XPlay is a good show so I wonder how it does

JM

[Imran Siddiqui]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker
For instance, in Fantastic Four - there's one point where the evil guy is watching something on his row of TV screens, and for several long seconds you can see the Samsung logo on the bottom. I just groaned.

The most disturbing part of that post is that you actually paid to see the Fantastic Four movie .

[Kuciwalker]

Jessica Alba is hot.

[Jon Miller]

she is

I remember thinking so when Dark Angel first came out

JM

[Ming]

Originally posted by Jon Miller
I should have said initial reason

they have continued it after that (it was just suppose to be a couple month promotional thing)

which I think suggests that they are getting enough ad revenue to be worth while

Trust me when I say they aren't making a ton on advertising... I had one of my media minions look into the costs... and it's dirt cheap. They have to be making the real money on additional sales, because they sure aren't getting it from advertising.

also, while the subject is on advertising

Ming, do you know how the show XPlay (on G4TechTV) does in comparison to the other shows on that channel?

I have heard that G4 is the second worse rated cable channel, but think that XPlay is a good show so I wonder how it does

Don't really know... I'll look into and see if I can get you answer. Most of the shows on G4 don't even get enough audience for the ratings to be statistically reliable... but I don't anything about XPlay.

[Jon Miller]

she was voted hottest science fiction babe at counterglow

and I agree

she is amazingly hot

JM

[chequita guevara]

I don't mind advertizing in games ince it does lend a little to realism. Hopefully it will also help game prices down, but I wouldn't bet on it.

[Bereta_Eder]

it's ingenious! sex deprived introversed pc nerds can see an add about an mp3 player as they savagely kill a 10 meter extraterestrial and then they'd want to get that in real life so as to feel they're still in the game!
seriosly, it will work for the right target group.

[Geronimo]

Originally posted by Kuciwalker


And getting inanely stupid. At some point people are sure to just completely tune them out.

I've always seen normal proudct plac ement as totally innocuous. i wonder if a lot of the complainers are trying to hard to spot them all as unwanted ads indstead of just letting it slide by as in irrelevant part of the set.

[Bkeela]

I like advertising in games and films when it is creative but 'inauthentic'. Commercials like in Starship Troopers, Robocop or even Blade Runner, which tend to satirise advertising and reflect the society depicted in said film. Such advertising does add to the realism. However, real advertising would **** me to tears.

Infact, I will boycott any games containing genuine advertising. I won't tolerate it.

I don't give any credence to research which suggests gamers like advertising. They have pulled such research out of their stinking anuses.

I have enough scrolling shooters games to satisfy me for the rest of my life, so it will be no skin off my nose.

[Skanky Burns]

Provided they were

making them unobtrusive, realistic and ensure that they don't interrupt game play

I wouldn't mind them. Who cares if a can of drink says "Coke" rather than some generic name? If the ads are obtrusive, don't fit in with the games atmosphere or affect performance (by needing to download new ads, for instance), then my purchasing power will be directed elsewhere.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Ming


90% like Ads in games... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I would love to see that research, because other studies I've seen show almost the opposite

Ming, you're such a cynic. You probably don't believe that 99% of the Soviet people voted for Stalin.

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Originally posted by Ming


How come I think that the game publishers will just keep the money and see it as extra revenue... I haven't noticed the cost of a ticket to see a movie reduced since they started placing ads in the theaters before the movie, and product placements in the movies

I doubt prices will be going down anytime soon, but it may help to mitigate the rising production costs that everybody in the industry keeps complaining about and at least keep prices where they are...

That said, they're going to have to be a whole lot smoother with product placements in games than they have been in movies...(most) games only work well when they are immersive, and that would end quickly if I start seeing Budweiser billboards popping up in the city view of Civ4 during the bronze age...

[Az]

What skanky and che have said.