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Dizzy B High

Dizzy B High
having ads is immersion breaking???
are you seriously trying to tell me in the future there will be no advertisements?

I want more ad's,
When i log on i want flyers stuck all over my cockpit screen.
I want buy 1 get 1 free offers on ammo.
I want big arrows floating in space saying only 500 ls to Galaxy Burger.
I want little green men to squeegee my windscreen when i'm stopped waiting for docking permission.

Thats immersion :)
 

Armour

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Hey, this is not the worst case scenario at least.
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Hey, don't give Dave any more terrible ideas! The advertising execs masquerading as gamers on this forum have already convinced him that we want to have advertising shoved down our throats, apparently - we don't need some kind of watch-to-play system as well! /s
 

Ancipital

Ancipital
Coming soon, truck Mechanically Recovered Meat Slurry from distant systems to Foodcourtia Orbital- the top 10% of players will win a code for FREE Chicken McBobblies with the purchase of any burger at a participating branch of McDeadthings..
 
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Straha Yeagar

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Armour said:
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?
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There absolutely will be advertising thousands of years in the future, and the holo signs already at the entrances of bases...I imagine there will be some current corporations still around in a thousand years, and still advertising. I can picture highly traveled, touristy systems such as Sol, Sirius, and the like to be saturated with advertising
 

Space Trucker

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Well, this thread escalated quickly. Are there any games that actually have in-game advertisements from the real world? I'm genuinely asking because the few games I play i haven't noticed any. So I'm just wondering how likely of a possibility it really is that FDev would start to use real world advertisements.

And I don't think the Nvidia contest giveaway exactly counts, since its, a giveaway.

Still interesting though how the mere thought of real life advertisements in-game sparks such a heated debate. :D
 

Monk

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Space Trucker said:
Well, this thread escalated quickly. Are there any games that actually have in-game advertisements from the real world? I'm genuinely asking because the few games I play i haven't noticed any. So I'm just wondering how likely of a possibility it really is that FDev would start to use real world advertisements.

And I don't think the Nvidia contest giveaway exactly counts, since its, a giveaway.

Still interesting though how the mere thought of real life advertisements in-game sparks such a heated debate. :D
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-game_advertising

In-game advertising (IGA) refers to advertising in computer and video games. IGA differs fromadvergaming, which refers to a game specifically made to advertise a product.[1]The IGA industry is large and growing.[2]
In-game advertising generated $34 million in 2004, $56 million in 2004,[3] $80 million in 2006,[4] and $295 million in 2007.[5] In 2009, spending on IGA was estimated to reach $699 million USD and is anticipated to grow to $1 billion by 2014.[6][7]
The earliest known IGA was the 1978 computer game Adventureland, which inserted a self-promotional advertisement for its next game, Pirate Adventure.[8] The earliest known commercial IGA occurred in 1991 when a spot for Penguin biscuits appeared in James Pond - RoboCod.
IGA can be integrated into the game either through a display in the background, such as an in-game billboard or a commercial during the pause created when a game loads, or highly integrated within the game so that the advertised product is necessary to complete part of the game or is featured prominently within cutscenes.[9] Due to the custom programming required, dynamic advertising is usually presented in the background; static advertisements can appear as either.[10][11] One of the advantages of IGA over traditional advertisements is that consumers are less likely to multitask with other media while playing a game, however, some attention is still divided between the gameplay, controls, and the advertisement.[12][13]
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Sometimes it works, sometimes it is met with hostile criticism. It all boils down to how it is implemented and how intrusive it is.
 
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Armour

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straha20 said:
There absolutely will be advertising thousands of years in the future, and the holo signs already at the entrances of bases...I imagine there will be some current corporations still around in a thousand years, and still advertising. I can picture highly traveled, touristy systems such as Sol, Sirius, and the like to be saturated with advertising
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Yes, I often see advertising for obsolete technology and products from yesteryear on my travels in real life. Those new billboards springing up proudly extolling the virtues of the Commodore VIC-20 are a sight to see. The TV ads proclaiming that most doctors smoke Lucky Strikes are convincing as well.

I expect to see ads like this, this and this...
 
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Straha Yeagar

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Armour said:
Yes, I often see advertising for obsolete technology and products from yesteryear on my travels in real life. Those new billboards springing up proudly extolling the virtues of the Commodore VIC-20 are a sight to see. The TV ads proclaiming that most doctors smoke Lucky Strikes are convincing as well.
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Ahh yes, picking out things that are purposely obsolete...I imagine there will be a Coca Cola and Pepsi market into the far distant future...products that won't really go obsolete. Nor will the fast food paradigm. People are always going to need staples like food and toiletries, and it is certainly possible that some of the corporations that deliver these things now could be around a long time fro now as well. I think it could be very interesting to see what the FD artistic department could come up with for future branding of current corporations, and if it is inserted into the game in a consistent artistic style, that could be very cool.
 

adoredtv

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Gotta hand it to Nvidia, they sure know how to market their stuff. The card is a year old now btw and pretty much rendered obsolete by the newer cards, but it's still obviously very fast.
 

Tar Stone

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Commander Jameson ONLY drinks Jamesons Irish Whisky.
 

Talarin

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I think that there's a point at which you have to trust to FD to have the games best interests at heart. They are, like us, players and so I think that accusations that they're only in it for the money are misplaced.
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At the same time, if finances are a concern (which I don't believe they are right now) would you rather not have some adverts and sponsorship instead of the game closing down?
 

Armour

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straha20 said:
Ahh yes, picking out things that are purposely obsolete...
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Not like a thousand year old GPU, of course.

straha20 said:
I imagine there will be a Coca Cola and Pepsi market into the far distant future...products that won't really go obsolete. Nor will the fast food paradigm. People are always going to need staples like food and toiletries, and it is certainly possible that some of the corporations that deliver these things now could be around a long time fro now as well.
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So those precise brands will be around? I wonder if the bright sparks behind this chain of fast food restaurants, after the second decade of strong growth, figured they'd be around for centuries as well.

Besides, extrapolating that a bunch of companies from a single planet (that, let's not forget, had world war 3 in the 2040s according to the game lore) would establish market dominance on a galactic scale....well that seems like a very weak rationalisation by a marketing type to me. Are you one?

straha20 said:
I think it could be very interesting to see what the FD artistic department could come up with for future branding of current corporations, and if it is inserted into the game in a consistent artistic style, that could be very cool.
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Different strokes and all that. I don't forsee it being either (interesting or cool).
 
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