I heard you like softdrinks? [Sonys new plan]
polycounter lvl 8
So we decided to stop your game and advertise them while your playing your game.
"You can't count on a publisher to be original or inventive when it comes to our entertainment, but they always seem brilliantly innovative when it comes to selling us more crap. Sony is today's bright little star, having patented a way to inject commercial breaks into your play sessions. "
Destructoid for the full article.
Can't see the justification for this, I mean what possible way could you tell however million people that the console you paid x for and new £55 game you paid for will now have ad breaks in it?
Anyone know anything about this?
*derp moment, the thread title was meant to be~ I heard you liked Adverts?
"You can't count on a publisher to be original or inventive when it comes to our entertainment, but they always seem brilliantly innovative when it comes to selling us more crap. Sony is today's bright little star, having patented a way to inject commercial breaks into your play sessions. "
Destructoid for the full article.
Can't see the justification for this, I mean what possible way could you tell however million people that the console you paid x for and new £55 game you paid for will now have ad breaks in it?
Anyone know anything about this?
*derp moment, the thread title was meant to be~ I heard you liked Adverts?
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Personally I hate all the ads in the 360 dashboard, I wish you could turn those off.
They had some adware in one of the battlefield games, I returned it right away when I discovered that, and if they try to pull that stunt in any games, that's 100% no sale for me, on the line with DRM bullshit.
Reminds me of the movie "Idiocracy", where they had huge screens but 80% of it was commercials, with a little field in the middle with the content.
I think Ad would be developer and publisher choice. not sony, sony just facilitate them.
That's me, that's me!
The marketing part, I mean. Yeah.
I mean c'mon! Everytime the game doesn't sell, they blame 'everyone', and when their 'DRM' doesn't work, they blame people for being naive, yet here we are, them having the best minds come up with the stupidest ideas...irony much?
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Except that that's not going to happen.
It'll be for free games, not paid ones. Have all games be free but ad-based, so you can try them like a demo (this seems to be the most used reason to justify piracy) and then if you like it - you buy it to get rid of the ads. Something along those lines.
you know where this is going...
I don't like this.
But even if it was Pepsi or Coke ad I wouldn't mind it as much as a commercial I am forced to watch.
Ah Speaking of marketing ^^
Bloody spambot.
I fricking hate Sony anyway. They seen like a bunch of money hungry rich business men.
Oh god, yes, those greedy bastards at sony, fortunatly all the others publishers are saints that are there to give you free entertainment just because of your pretty eyes.
The amount of advertising bombardment is getting insane. anything that starts out good eventually gets ruined by ads. gametrailers and ign, the same fucking call of duty ad before every video, youtube, stupid ads before most videos. even grooveshark which i used to love, now before starting listening you have to watch an ad. literally makes me despise the site/product and whatever is being advertised I add to my never buy list of bullshit.
the second I am interrupted from playing the game I spent 60 bucks on to be brainwashed for useless shit i dont need is the second i take that product/console and thrown it out the window, because you just know if sony succeds with it, itll follow to every other game/console out there.
Now... would this help prevent games from causing major studios to shut if the flop?
In China we have ads while we take the taxi to work (with audio and video), while we wait for the elevator at work (with audio and video) and finally inside the elevator (also with audio and video).
So yeah, damn those ads! (only good thing is they're in Chinese and I don't understand a thing).
I wouldn't play a game with ad breaks. Unless the ads appear when I press the pause button , like when I press ESC in Diablo 3. I wouldn't mind then. But for that the gamer bette not cost 60 bucks! (although I bet they will)
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If I want a product, I'll seek it out. Otherwise, leave me alone.