Are Optional Ads Worth The Trouble?

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? "

Comments

Re:Of course!

[Kierthos]

So, did you miss the whole "Opt out" part, or what?

Optional Ads are GREAT!

[crhylove]

If they are advertising a product people actually want to hear about. I thoroughly enjoyed the last GTA IV video. If there was a half decent American car still made (like my 1964 Dodge Dart, but electric), I would happily watch ads for that (like I do for the Tesla, and from 1964 of my actual Dart on YouTube). The problem isn't Optional Ads. The problem is Optional Ads for BULLSHIT like penis enlargement, singles online, and Spicy Ranch Doritos. Fuck those ads. Can you say fuck on /.? Mod me down! Satan said the F word! Seriously though, I just want my solar powered house and car for a reasonable price so I can drive to work without being bankrupt. Show me some fucking ads for that. And stop lending billions of dollars to people who can't afford houses. I mean, there's gotta be a cheaper house they can buy or something. Seriously. Fuck Obama and Hillary. They can suck my fed up American dick. Or was that Monica? And (this one's for the SlashDot crowd), "WHERE IS MY ALWAYS ON ALWAYS CONNECTED OPEN SOURCE PHONE THAT DOES VIDEO CHAT FROM ANYWHERE OVER THE INTERNET, AND YES IT CAN CALL REGULAR PHONES JUST AS EASY?!?"

rhY

PS I don't in any way want to appear to be endorsing McCain whom I see as a bigger sell out than Hillary, which is saying something, is it not? I think the media distorts the numbers and more people like Kucinich than Fox news tells us. Or is that so hard to believe? Things have been SHIT in this country since they whacked Kennedy, and I for one am tired of it. I want my solar powered car, house, video cell phone, (Or better yet, just put all that in a luxury RV Zeppelin that drives itself via GPS)and I want it all for free from the Sun, and for cheap because every other kid on my block has 3 of each. And I want to go to the moon, and let people grow food without patents, and I want healthy organic free range birds of all type, and I want it cheap and fast, like Starbucks which basically has me on a 2 coffee a day habit now like the evil pushers they are. I want to punch Joanie Mitchell, I swear to god. Who let this happen? WHERE IS THE MEDIA?!?!?!