Advertising money generating idea for Elite Dangerous

[EdzUp]

As ED has a reasonable player base why not add advertising panels to buildings, at stations etc and have companies pay FDEV to have them post ads on these banners withing Fdevs guidelines?

It's not as invasive as permadeath but would generate some more money for the game?

 

[Clarion-Z]

I mean they have those .. but are missing products.
Imagine if you could actually buy lavian brandy or centauri gin?
Heck could go for some eranin whisky right about now....

 

[EdzUp]

I mean for external companies to push ads on those too so it's not amazingly invasive BUT would generate some revenue for fdev

 

[Rainbro]

I mean, sure, how else is this free to play game supposed to make money. We could swap out the loading screen and hyperspace transitions for ads, they aren't doing anything.

 

[Ian Doncaster]

It probably wouldn't generate very much revenue - it's a banner you generally see briefly at a poor angle in the middle of a crowded picture, with relatively low resolution, and limited guarantees that it was actually shown to anyone at all (as opposed to being displayed in the instance when they happened to be looking the other way), with no ability to click-through to the actual product web page? Who's going to pay for that nowadays? "Not amazingly invasive" is generally called "worthless" in marketer circles, I think.

If it's not intrusive enough to get people to play X4 instead, no-one's going to pay Frontier any measurable amount of money to put it in Elite Dangerous.