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In-Game Advertising Breaks Out
UID1000000 writes "MSNBC reports that companies like Nielsen are implementing tracked advertising in video games. Viacom is also considering in-game advertising. I can't wait until your first person shooter stops and drinks a nice cold refreshing soda."
Will there be points for Coke vs Pepsi? Can I get all the Gatorade? If I get generic, will get sick?
Forget the Coke ads. I want the Budweiser girls!
Yeah, I was playing Evil Dead the other day and saw a blatant ad for S-Mart. It was terrible because it wasn't a billboard or anything, it was actually part of the storyline.
Something like this?
why does the porridge bird lay his eggs in the air?
You can use the god cheat by typing at the console:
"Iforgiveyouforcrystalpepsi"
You will be baked, and there will be cake.
NetHack's Mail Daemon has been delivering spam to me for years.
..keep the ads somewhat tasteful and out of my way, then who cares?
And by tasteful, I mean no flashing crap at me, alternating contrasting colors. Or, say, flash.
Mod me down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!
Get hit with the Ad Cannon and you'll be incapacitated for several seconds while your avatar stops and conspicuously consumes:
- a bag of Doritos
- a can of Red Bull
- a bottle of Tums
- a tube of Preperation-H
- Despite popular opinion, I am not perfect.
Will we be able to blow up the ads? That might make it acceptable.
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Funny, I don't see you posting with the "subscriber star" in your header. Guess you don't consider this Slashdot game very good at all... :)
For $500 a day I will join Counter Strike Games and spray your company logo all over the map! the other gamers are sure to love me and let me continue my work as they game!
If there is a Diablo III, the potion vendors get replaced with vending machines, the smiths get replaced by Wallmart, the other NPCs will be wearing sandwich boards, and all of the armour will have logos on them...
(S(SKK)(SKK))(S(SKK)(SKK))
And one can't forget the blatent advertisements for "Space Quest X: Latex Babes of Estros" in "Space Quest IV", or was that "Space Quest XII"... hmmm, damned timelines screw me up.
I came here to kick ass and chew Watermelon Bubblicious... and i'm all out of Watermelon Bubblicious
This is just what we need, next time a good looking female shows up in a game I honestly wouldn't mind the trojan man popping out to give me a free box of condoms...
If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be fucked up. - Comedian Mitch Hedberg R.I.P. 03/30/68-2/24/05
Interestingly enough, the pizza company in the first movie was Domino's.
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I can't wait for Adbusters: The Game .
"The game came with a coupon for a free personal pan pizza, now that is great advertisment to bovine America. Get your kids to play video games, then take them out for some greasy pizza!"
Yes, I'm a fat ass because of Ninja Turtles. It took a whopping week for my transformation to occur.
"Derp de derp."
It would be a great use of the audio commentary; when he cracks a soda and takes a swig I can just hear:
"Hmmm... What _is_ this crap?"
-- You are in a maze of little, twisty passages, all different... --
And further back, the greatest advertising snafoo of all time when M&Ms (instead of Reesie's Pieces) turned down the offer to be the candy depicted in the movie "E.T."
The irony of this post is delicious.
Not nearly as delicious as an ice-cold Coca-Cola and a crispity, crunchity, peanut-buttery Butterfinger!
(Taken from the article)
"It's like when I played 'Grand Theft Auto' for the first time," he said. "I thought to myself how much better it would be if the signs were real."
(Massive, Inc. CEO Mitch Davis)
"It's like the first time I heard of Massive, Inc. CEO Mitch Davis," I said. "I thought to myself how much better that company would be if the CEO wasn't huffing exhaust fumes in the company car park".
PepsiQuest, MMORPG gives virtual cash and gifts for real purchases! Buy a pizza from pizza hut and get an AOE spell doubling stamina for all in party! Each pepsi can code entered rewards with 10gp and a full life bonus! Pepsi/Sony/GM - buy a Saturn vehicle and get an online virtual vehicle, purchase a Sony big screen and get Full set of the best armor.... Hey it just makes sense for this to happen sooner or later. The fact is that in most MMORPG's people who have real money buy online credits and charachters anyway.
Well, it might be worth subscribing if we didn't have to replay the same level^H^H^H^H^Hstory every couple of days.
--Rob