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Are Optional Ads Worth The Trouble?

Posted by Zonk on from the opt-in-opt-out-do-a-dance-all-about dept.

azuredrake writes "NCSoft's City of Heroes has just announced that in-game ads are being added to the game, provided by an advertising firm Double Fusion. However, unlike in many games, the ads being brought to CoH have been defined as 'always optional'. The publishers see the ads as a purely additional revenue stream, not as something that will ever allow advertisers to affect game content. Commentary is available at Gamasutra. Is making advertisement volunteer-based a viable way to get around cynicism? The tone of these ads seems to be 'check them out to help the game'. Are there any sites or services in which you'd voluntarily look at ads to lend a hand? "

3 of 245 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Wikipedia by Idiomatick · · Score: 3, Informative

    If anybody would it would be wikipedia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Wikipedia They have a whole section insulting theirselves...

  2. Re:Yes, with a however by Gokee2 · · Score: 3, Informative

    .We need, Google to start a competitor to Paypal, so I can donate some small amounts of money to the sites I like. ( Google Checkout https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=sierra&continue=https%3A%2F%2Fcheckout.google.com
  3. new adblock for firefox beta5 by blackest_k · · Score: 3, Informative

    http://adblockplus.org/devbuilds/

    rather annoyingly firefox beta5 isn't compatible with the mainstream release of adblock however the development build here works fine.

    All i need now is a method to remove the gray tramlines running down the page on slashdot. the nesting soon reduces me to 20% width comment 20% side bar 60% tram line. god knows what mobile users get.

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