That would be because they put it out prematurely. [strike]David[/strike] Michael said earlier that there will be more info about it tomorrow.
Edit: quoted wrong person
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That would be because they put it out prematurely. [strike]David[/strike] Michael said earlier that there will be more info about it tomorrow.
Edit: quoted wrong person
Looking at your signature, I've just figured out what the between-the-legs screen is for. That's right - in-game advertising for the f2p version of ED
!Braben? Do you mean Michael?
Looking at your signature, I've just figured out what the between-the-legs screen is for. That's right - in-game advertising for the f2p version of ED
Don't even joke about that
Looking at your signature, I've just figured out what the between-the-legs screen is for. That's right - in-game advertising for the f2p version of ED
Cool!
ONLY FOR YOU. Ads create a living breathing universe. They're immersion building.
As long as they are made in a context relevant frame.
Tar Stone
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It never ceases to amaze me to see how effective the results of continued life long indoctrination works out. The general conformity of the masses is nauseating. I paid to purchase a game, not to be drilled with ads. And my game enjoyment would be rather reduced by being drilled with advertisements as I play.
This won't be a good step, and Braben needs to think carefully about this whilst hes eyeing up his future bank balance.
Agree completely, well said.
The majority of players won't have a problem, that's why it happened. It's sad to see real life products appearing in Elite of all things.
Make the game easy and casual for a huge number of brain dead morons to zip around in and get as many adverts in it as you can get away with? Is that it?
There's a ton of ways you can do stuff like this without putting it in the actual game.
It's cheap, it's cheesy, and the whole galnet thing with its story we're all still waiting on is going to start running ads?
There's your reason for no offline right there guys.
Very very disappointed in Frontier, thought they had more class.
Agree, its not as if Elite is a "real life product"....
WAIT A MINUTE, I THINK I JUST REALISED SOMETHING
Hyperbole much, the poor soul of a father I once had, when pronounced brain dead, would have love to been able to play anything one more time methinks
I can't find it right now , but I think when I first loaded ED I read they had the right to do in game ads .
It was bad enough when I realised that this was almost certainly always intended to be just another console game, albeit one that exploited crowdfunding and so-called "indie" cred to gouge oldies for their nostalgia money, and get a sweeter deal on the table from Redmond for publishing rights than they would have if they took it to them first.
Now we get this tacky move, plopping ads in front of us without any context. "Play/Obey/Consume!" Throwing out a couple of freebies is the patron-icing on the cake, the insult added to injury.
The EULA made it plain that ads and buying credits for real money were possibilities, but I figured they'd give the players a few more months for the initial sting of offlinegate to wear off before pushing it in any further with market penetration.
Now we get this tacky move, plopping ads in front of us without any context. "Play/Obey/Consume!" Throwing out a couple of freebies is the patron-icing on the cake, the insult added to injury.
The EULA made it plain that ads and buying credits for real money were possibilities, but I figured they'd give the players a few more months for the initial sting of offlinegate to wear off before pushing it in any further with market penetration.
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Just for consistency, I assume you are also sad that real life locations and names appear in the game as well?
I'm not so sure that real life products appearing in game is really all that frowned upon for most people. Take some of the offline, single player moddable games, and real life branding texture mods are right up there with all the nudie ones. For many people, it's the little details like this that really turn a sterile environment into a living, breathing universe they can recognize, yet get lost in.
Yeah, when I'm imagining myself as a space man a thousand years into the future, I would expect to see advertising for thousand-year-old products. Moore's Law be damned. Shill much?
Ads are an intrusion into many peoples escapism.
They are not there to enhance or "add" anything to your experience, they are only there to maintain access to a demographic.
They are a little parasitic in that nature. "they", the advertiser has everything to gain from being in my game, but I the player who already paid to play the game get nothing worthwhile in return that wouldn't be anything different than if the adverts were not present to begin with.
They are not there to enhance or "add" anything to your experience, they are only there to maintain access to a demographic.
They are a little parasitic in that nature. "they", the advertiser has everything to gain from being in my game, but I the player who already paid to play the game get nothing worthwhile in return that wouldn't be anything different than if the adverts were not present to begin with.
Perhaps if it were done in a bit more "in-game" style (from a post discussing this in g+):
"nVidia Megacorp are looking for some legacy ancient artefacts to round out their private collection of graphics cards from years gone by. Missing holographic capabilities and less processing power than your watch, these are still worth a great deal to this origin system corporation and their historical archive of technology. The first 5 commanders finding these items will receive rewards to recognise their achievement, and pluggable into their starship console: the nVidia dark matter high powered 'Black' graphics unit is the finest available today".
I wouldn't be surprised if Nvidia approached Frontier with a marketing budget to spend. Especially as Nvidia will have taken note of the 4k support in the game. Black will make use of that.
Hmm.. that rolled off the tongue all too easily. Perhaps I should give up the day job?
"nVidia Megacorp are looking for some legacy ancient artefacts to round out their private collection of graphics cards from years gone by. Missing holographic capabilities and less processing power than your watch, these are still worth a great deal to this origin system corporation and their historical archive of technology. The first 5 commanders finding these items will receive rewards to recognise their achievement, and pluggable into their starship console: the nVidia dark matter high powered 'Black' graphics unit is the finest available today".
I wouldn't be surprised if Nvidia approached Frontier with a marketing budget to spend. Especially as Nvidia will have taken note of the 4k support in the game. Black will make use of that.
Hmm.. that rolled off the tongue all too easily. Perhaps I should give up the day job?
Good lord. It's a PR device; rather than the launch of some mass advertising campaign.
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Nvidia will promote Elite through this. Elite will do the same for Nvidia. I will bet no money has directly changed hands.
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Speaking for myself, I approve.
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People will be complaining about getting adverts on their TV next...
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Nvidia will promote Elite through this. Elite will do the same for Nvidia. I will bet no money has directly changed hands.
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Speaking for myself, I approve.
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People will be complaining about getting adverts on their TV next...
They probably would, if on-demand and downloads didn't exist. Do you still buy the Radio Times as well?