I have nothing against things like banners on stations showing real company logos instead of imaginary ones. If developers can get money to make the game better this way, let them.
Did you agree to in-game advertising?
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But how much did they get? And how much does advertisements degrade a game?
I have already paid them to make the game. I have already paid them to make the expansions. It is their fault if they cannot afford the overhead of running it. Perhaps they shouldn't have ditched Offline Mode.
If they had offered a Subscription model I would have happily signed up.
I like how a give-away that specifically requires only in-game activity akin to a treasure hunt and doesn't require the player to sign up anywhere on some website or leave the game _at_all_ to participate and doesn't even need to interact with a third party somehow breaks immersion. But all the pop culture names of npcs dont. The silly names of some systems dont. The Earth centric names of ships and such doesn't break your immersion.
Nonsense. The knee jerk reaction to this is groundless and the reasoning behind the reaction is just ridiculous.
Nonsense. The knee jerk reaction to this is groundless and the reasoning behind the reaction is just ridiculous.
If you agreed to it, it would have been in the EULA that you accepted before playing the game. The EULA says subsequent updates are binding, but I think this is Frontier bluff, having no force in law if the update is not presented to you.
It's an advertisement. Not a fictional advertisement. This is really pretty bad.
I feel a bit like a hostile nation has invaded my homeland. When I play a game like Elite, I can forget about real-life crap. Popculture-referencing names break some of that, sure. Maybe the world of ED also being pretty crappy, and in many cases, crappy in the same way as our own world, maybe that breaks some of it too. However, I can live with that. With the advertisements, it feels like the real world crap has come to burn all the fields and turn everything to rubble. It's really nasty, in the very special way that only is possible when you have something really great, and then slowly start nibbling at the edges of it until it turns into something else.
I said yes but as others have pointed out as long as it is not intrusive, immersion breaking and works with the game and its visuals I'm fine with it. What they did with the nVidia was fine, Ill even accept branding on the holoprojectors (provided the graphics don't look off or obviously plugged in) but popups and alternations of the current interface is a big NO.
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Looks like someone needs a "Sense of Perspective" add-on pack
Gee, don't take me literally. Calm down!
If its in the game environment on boards outside stations ect then fine as I don't look at them anyway. If it involves me having to look at real life adds while I am playing that I cant get rid of , forget it. If one pops up in my cockpit it is an immediate uninstall of the game . In stations , outside stations , as long as I can ignore them and carry on playing then fine no problem as it would not affect me one way or another.
If it means I don't have to pay a subscription fee then "IDGAF" as the internet says
100% agreed, any annoying pop-ups would be horrible, and something stuck on the dashboard, ugh. But anywhere else I'm ok with it, so I voted yes. I'd hate for Elite Dangerous to end up like Black Prophecy and if advertising ensured its continuation then i'm 100% behind that.
But, does it? How much does FD profit from this?
And as a regular thing? This event alone obviously will not support FD for long. Are we looking at one ad-event per month? Per week?
Besides, how is FD's financial situation?
From the EULA:
7.2 Usage Data
7.2.1 We may from time to time during your Use of the Game collect information about your device, as specified in the Privacy Policy, which forms part of this EULA. This information may also include your Game ID, Game achievements, scores and performances, IP address, MAC address or other device ID, other device use information or other information and statistics regarding your usage of the Game. This information may be used not only to help you play the Game over the Internet (where the Game contains Online Features) but also to help us better understand how our customers are using the Game, their behaviour and preferences, so that we can improve our games and services in the future.
Wrong on every possible level. This is a give away sponsored by Nvidia but orchestrated and run by FD that doesn't price anything out or ask you to purchase anything or ask you to go to a site (or list the site) or requires you to go out of the game to do anything. It's a community event that takes place completely in-game that has a real world prize and what allows them to offer that prize is that they mention the name of the sponsor.
The only thing that differentiates this from a normal community event is that the reward actually has value, you can't cheat to win, and they mentioned the name of a company in-game that exists out-of-game. If that brings forth your fury then so would the 50 other instances of referencing current day real names in-game and it's obvious it doesn't or there would be a thread about npc names, a thread about station names a thread about system names etc.
forum flame baiting is all this thread is. Come back when there's an actual instance of in-game advertisement rather than just the mention of a name and a give-away that benefits players and requires nothing but in-game activities to win.
- the original Elite stole most my childhood and made life on this miserable planet a bajillion times more interesting.