No one would mind at all if they did the honorable thing and reduced the retail price of the game because of the extra advertising revenue, but they won't. Far more likely is that we, the gamer, will have to foot the bill for the development of new and even more invasive in-game advertising systems as the market opens up because once again we, the gamer, rather than boycotting an obviously bad idea.
I know they're not that noticeable, but I miss the days when you could spend hours looking at the posters the developers had put into the game, which were often pretty amusing. I don't wanna see the same crappy adverts I see all the time in real life!
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No one would mind at all if they did the honorable thing and reduced the retail price of the game because of the extra advertising revenue, but they won't. Far more likely is that we, the gamer, will have to foot the bill for the development of new and even more invasive in-game advertising systems as the market opens up because once again we, the gamer, rather than boycotting an obviously bad idea. I know they're not that noticeable, but I miss the days when you could spend hours looking at the posters the developers had put into the game, which were often pretty amusing. I don't wanna see the same crappy adverts I see all the time in real life!