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- twtmc, on 07/31/2008, -3/+50Future headline:
Hackers Testing "AdBlock for Games" - Sornos, on 07/30/2008, -2/+33I wouldn't mind ads on the start up of a game if it was free. But not in-game ads. I do not want to be interr-HEY IT LOOKS LIKE YOU ENJOY CHEESE! GO TO WWW.BOBSCHEESEEMPORIUM.COM FOR ALL YOUR CHEESY NEEDS!
- Grimdotdotdot, on 07/31/2008, -1/+18Adverts and sponsorship have been in games for decades. I haven't noticed the prices going down, have you?
- hiteshsharma, on 07/30/2008, -3/+17Ya.. Our lives were so incomplete without Google Ads.
- bezz, on 07/31/2008, -2/+12Although mochiads has been doing this for a while, Google getting their ads in flash games will definately encourage more people to develop flash games. FPS games are getting old, and the low cost to develop flash games allows new ideas to flourish, rather than franchise games governed by large corporations.
- inactive, on 07/31/2008, -2/+10Well this sucks.
Open source games ftw? - Pixelpaws, on 07/31/2008, -0/+8EA had nothing to do with FFX.
- benologist, on 07/31/2008, -0/+8You won't avoid paying $60 just by seeing a 30 second ad or two. One minute of your life isn't worth $60 unless you're a hooker working over the road from a prison.
You'll only avoid paying $60 if every surface in the game is used to market some company and every 10 minutes the game pauses to tell you about some product from that company. Or something equally obnoxious. And even then there's a very good chance it'll only *supplement* some of the cost rather then actually pay the millions it takes for the game to be developed, marketed, distributed and supported. - brentcappello, on 07/30/2008, -2/+10It was only a matter of time. Wasn't it?
- VinnieDaMac, on 07/31/2008, -2/+9Could Google's PR be taking a turn for the worst?
- Pecheckler, on 07/31/2008, -2/+8Hannah Montana apparel and accessories now available at Wal-Mart!... just what I wanted to see when I score some epic MMO armor.
- Testiculese, on 07/31/2008, -0/+6Prices going down? Hell no. I don't see your cable bill going down for the 10 commercials they play every commercial break, every channel, every day, all day.
- inactive, on 07/31/2008, -0/+5Obviously if it got that bad they'd have to stop doing it.
- Testiculese, on 07/31/2008, -0/+5I think I will stop buying games if I can't block this *****.
- MetalGear7, on 07/31/2008, -2/+7Fastforward 20 years from now...Google rules the Earth :( I am enslaved and have no way to get to a computer to digg my favorite articles or go on youtube and watch Daryl Hall "Out of Touch" music video...1984...good times....good times....I can keep going but you probably just dugg me down right there....yea....see ya
- PReitz, on 07/30/2008, -5/+9A short video about Bob's Cheese Emporium or whatever can't be near as bad as some of the monstrous cut scenes EA has become infamous for (like FFX).
- Testiculese, on 07/31/2008, -0/+4What's wrong with cutscenes? They add cohesiveness and continuity to the game (if done well)
- DeceasedVirus, on 07/31/2008, -0/+3Ok so many would remember that NFSU 2 was sonsored by cingular, Best Buy, and many others. EA was PAYED to still charge us $50.00 NEW, Were already advertising in games so make them cheaper. Imagine a FREE GTA5.
- beef623, on 07/31/2008, -0/+3I don't think there's anything wrong with in-game advertising if it's done well. I actually think that having things such as billboards with real-world advertisements or televisions with a few real-world commercials playing would add to the sense of realism. Things like that would also be something that would be easily ignored and wouldn't interfere with gameplay.
A huge mistake would be pop-up ads or anything that would interrupt the game or force attention on itself. - Scottc320, on 07/31/2008, -0/+3iTunes-like where normal version stays the same price but one with ads is half as much/free...? :)
- tribius, on 07/31/2008, -0/+3in game ads might be kinda cool in some games if applied right.
Like in fallout 3 it would be nice to have some billboards here and there to heighten to feeling of really being in the apocalyptic future. But of course only if the billboard was old looking and full of bullet holes. And you can of course nuke that one annoying add you always hated. - Zaggynl, on 07/31/2008, -1/+4I wouldn't mind some ads during loading screens..if the loading time stays the same that is.
- Testiculese, on 07/31/2008, -0/+2Annoying *****, yes.
EA you can recreate a 0 byte file in place of the movie file, and it will just skip it. - denisrs, on 07/31/2008, -0/+2in an industry were companies invest millions, there is no way that we would see ads in a commercial game.
EA reported to had a loss in profit recently, will some thousand $ from Google pay them off? No. Would Activision risk a loss in image for gaining some bucks in adsense? No.
We can sleep tight, we will never see ads below zelda inventory....
For free games let's see... - ilgaz, on 07/31/2008, -0/+2Horrifying since even EFF relies on Google sponsored search at their site.
Google can do ANYTHING and get away with it. Which media site or web 2.0 site will you alert? Mixture of EA, the MS of games scene adds more to danger.
In current scheme of things, if Google drops your site 1 below current, you lose half of hits. Would you dare to make a story critiquing privacy?
I remember EFF went nuts about gmail policies and just 2 months later, they added Google search to their site! Aren't there GNU licensed solutions which they can run in house? Hell yes.
BTW the idiots behind this proposal shouldn't be partying over diggs of this story, we digg to ALERT the common end user about how dangerous thing it is. For example even a goodly signed J2ME (Java) app can send your location data. - swatward, on 07/31/2008, -3/+5"turn for the worse" was the expression you were looking for.
- scabbers, on 07/31/2008, -1/+3***** google.
- onineko, on 07/31/2008, -0/+2City of Heroes/Villains is attempting in-game ads. Right now there's only one ad, which makes it kinda monotonous.
Thing is, it's a City, it was laid out like a city, complete with highways and back alleys and Billboards.
So in this game, ads make a little bit of sense. It took them a long time to find a company that would co-operate with them, as they needed to keep immersion while supplying graphical ads in dingy environments. AND they needed to be able to give the users complete control over whether they view them or not.
However, ad-sense ads probably won't work, even on the loading screen, as that would break immersion horribly.
If CoH was completely re-done and re-coded with the intent of having ads on the billboards, I highly doubt it would lower subscription fees. - daivos, on 07/31/2008, -0/+2Whatever happened to 'do no evil' or whatever BS motto they had a few years ago. That sounds pretty f'in evil to me.
- Testiculese, on 07/31/2008, -0/+2You haven't been paying attention to government (as an example), have you...
- ilgaz, on 07/31/2008, -0/+1They won't miss a single chance to invade peoples privacy more... What left out of it in fact...
- Azriel7, on 07/31/2008, -0/+1Another person who believes the "ads makes game prices go down" lie.
- ufee, on 08/01/2008, -0/+1NoScript is annoying. Safe, sure, but unforgivably annoying.
- ilgaz, on 07/31/2008, -0/+1Check http://opera.gamejump.com , they give away free and commercial quality games for free. It just downloads a stupid GIF banner to show on startup, over ordinary http. It is not possible to spy userdata on Java anyway (he will be asked)
For EA and Google, it is not enough. They want far more invasion of privacy. - CristianRaiber, on 07/31/2008, -0/+1How much longer would you have expected to last till Google got it's nose into this industry as well ?
- Pixelpaws, on 07/31/2008, -0/+1All you'd need to do is modify your HOSTS file to block the various ad servers. The only hard part would be figuring out which servers are actually serving the advertising.
- Deatheragenator, on 07/31/2008, -0/+1iTunes is free
- ufee, on 08/01/2008, -0/+1You can't say they had *nothing* to do with it, as they were the publisher in NA.
- jedicor, on 07/31/2008, -0/+1Unless it just pulls the data directly from the game server that you connect to in order to play. I don't see them using an external service for this, especially if the game is online-capable, it would be too easy to stop.
- ufee, on 08/01/2008, -0/+1But this is worser.
bleh. - HonoredMule, on 07/31/2008, -1/+1I could do without the half-dozen non-skippable startup videos glorifying various corporate logos or brands. The worst culprits (EA titles) often aren't even loading the game in the background.
- mrBitch, on 07/31/2008, -1/+1hmmm, pigfister, I'm guessing you don't find a little bit of 18+ action too offensive every now & then?
- Lunarbunny, on 07/31/2008, -1/+1All I can think of are Google text ads scattered around...
Quick, somebody with some free time do a Photoshop! - Waterrat, on 07/31/2008, -1/+1 Eventually there will be no place any of us can go or nothing we can do without being bombarded with ads!
- pgbank, on 08/01/2008, -0/+0many features for tool of Google.
- SniperGX1, on 07/31/2008, -1/+1You probably mean Nintendo. Sony and Microsoft target the largest group of gamers, average age in their early 30's.
- inactive, on 07/31/2008, -1/+1Government is different... I hope? Playing video games with ads would be a choice.
- WardOnTheWeb, on 08/01/2008, -0/+0Wherever consumes are looking, there goeth the ads. However, Google generally tries to make its advertising innocuous so as not to offend users. I find it likely that they've done tests and determined that advertising in many games interrupts suspension of disbelief and results in a poor user experience. Compare the mindsets: A user searching for something on Google may very well invite relevant ads, whereas a user playing a game doesn't want an interruption, no matter how well-timed.
- ironclyde, on 07/31/2008, -2/+2Since adsense is content based, does that mean we'll start getting ads for hookers while playing GTA?
- pigfister, on 07/31/2008, -2/+1sony is already doing this to our kids with the ps3 which is worse a console aimed at children or 18+ titles aimed at adults?
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