Anything you pay for should NOT have any form of advertising what so ever in it (unless of course it's like QJ.NET and scams you but big companies usually don't do that). Do we see ads in movies you bought at the store? NO. WE PAY FOR THEM WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU ***** THEM UP? I'LL *****ING GOTO THE DAMN GAME COMPANIES HQ BUILDING WITH A LAPTOP AND PIRATE THE GAME RIGHT IN FRONT OF THERE FACES IF I SEE A FREAKIN AD IN IT.

Blatant ads don't work imo i believe if you know your being sold 2 you put up a defensive barrier but if you see solid snake using a mac its wayy more effective

thats exactly right. thats why most people dont realize there are ads in movies; because they are subtle ads most of the time. i wouldnt mind if i were playing a racing game and all the cars had firestone tires of them, or if the repairmen used black and decker tools. i just dont want to be playing the next grand theft auto, and in the middle of gunning someone down, the main character says something dumb like, "mcdonalds has an all new 27.5 lb burger perfect for putting those hunger pains to rest!" it'd be different if, instead, you could eat at mcdonalds in the game.

What Dremth and death said!

im keen to see advertising

but NOT THIS SORT, it makes me sick



so what your gonna be in the middle of a battlefield and one of the soldiers turn round and stand up and ask you



if youve ever had an accident that wasnt your fault?......





***** NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOO





im all for billboard advertisement, such as say in gta4, there will be a bilboard for dominoes pizza, you click it and using your psn, it delievers the pizza you ordered



THAT BENEFITS US ALL, and adds realism

i was thinking great fro homebrew games, gives something back to the devs, but thats were it stops



also you are either in or where thinking about going into the advertising business so your comments are VOID



if its in a next gen game, say for example cod5

and you really get into the game, with the HD and surround sound, you dont want a ***** inserting a blindly obvious ad in the game, that throws you out of it and you say this is a *****in piece of *****



so



homebrew - yes

commercial - stick to non-obvious ads, get in the persons mind but nothing else repetition is the key



anyway i still think having billboards etc is the best way to go about it, just imagine play gta online wanting a pizza from dominoes but dont have the time to egt to the phone, simply wlak over to the bilboard, or select it some way and chose your fav food and using you psn account the money will be withdrawn and the pizza sent,



*****in superb

Back in the day, when you can watch a movie and feel confident that you will not see 10 different product placements and the occasional thinly disguised commercial, I purchased every movie and watched them religiously.



Now, I can not go to a movie without seeing product placements and in half of the movies the producers do not seem to even try to make the products and logos blend in properly.

Sure, stuff you see in daily life fits into a movie, but when a character randomly blurts out a product name or sales pitch or the camera focuses for awhile on a specific item with its logo clearly displayed, that actually takes away from the film.



As a result, I have not purchased a movie in the past two years. I either pirate them or sneak into the theatre without paying.





Fill the video game scene with product placements and piracy will skyrocket as gamers get fed up with this practice.



I do not pirate games since I stay away from sports titles and the rest typically do not contain ads (at least the ones I played on portable systems). But if I start seeing games I purchase filled with ads, I will gladly stop purchasing them and just download the lot of them.

" I'LL *****ING GOTO THE DAMN GAME COMPANIES HQ BUILDING WITH A LAPTOP AND PIRATE THE GAME RIGHT IN FRONT OF THERE FACES IF I SEE A FREAKIN AD IN IT. "



And then they could make even more money by sueing you.

is that when Nike goes to google for and makes a contract for adsense for games the following may be seen:



You're turning a corner in CS, your back against a wall, you hear a tango and out pops a computer AI with a pair of nike air shoes.



If you're totally opposed to ads in games - look at Rainbow Six Vegas (1/2) and see how many cars you can spot that aren't Dodge.



This is the most likely form on non-intrusive ad-placement that they are looking into.

America's Army



One big ad. Except for those of us not living in the states - then it's a free game that makes the American Army look like the biggest pimp of 'killing is fun'

This is Adsense's form on a pc search engine, not their form in a video game. You have to give a company of that size a little credit, they know how to make money - and people aren't going to read text ads in a 3d graphical world. In a web browser, you spend most of your time reading. Yes, this modern day invention still has us reading nearly non-stop. So, having text ads makes sense; Adsense apparently. It wouldn't in a videogame or movie.

this doesn't affect gameplay one bit so why are people *****ing about it?

Stupid comment system, I was trying to reply to Cydonos.



Sorry. :)

if it is anything like that then there will be a lot of boycotting - and we'll likely see the first company to implement it be the first company to abandon it.



I thought they had more sense than that.

Does anyone remember "Yo Noid!" for the NES? It was a game made solely to advertise dominoes pizza... not to mention it was lame



anyway, i dont care if there are logos and stuff but don't crap on the game itself. the quality of the game should never be compromised for such a thing.

In game advertising should not be intusive at all. I am sure that most advertising will be off beat from the in-face advertising you all expect. It should help reduce game cost and therfore save us money by provinding cheaper high quality games. Google should have the sence to keep adverts that actually tie in with gameplay rather that distract us from it. If you take into account that mods for pc gta 3 and vice city all had ability to change diners, petrol stations, into mc donalds KFC and Shell stations. It sure made the game seem more real. Adverts like those are priceless and make games more realistick. Those are the sort of adverts that should be implimented in game.

Just don't worry about it because if they do make a hash of it then no one will buy the games.

Go Kittykat. You would make great friends with my wife and I. Though, we would probably get you in to pirating portable console games

You're an idiot. GTA being so kind as to not push any product placement at all is a godsend. The cars were all made up, restaurants vaguely familiar... Pretty humorous stuff too, not just a ripoff for the sake of not getting sued.