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Robin Blood · Jul 06, 2006, 10:55 PM // 22:55

Advertising on the loading or menu screen wouldn't be too bad, but I wouldn't want any billboards or items to be used in this way.

Ure Maker · Jul 06, 2006, 11:48 PM // 23:48

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Originally Posted by Yanman.be

http://www.massiveincorporated.com/s...k/partners.htm

Guess where they are partnering with?

Oh, and um,I know the advertising business in Belgium, don't know such a company :/

NC do create OTHER games :O (ye i know shock HORROR) and im sure they've thought if they input a can machine in the middle of cave of trolls blocking the entrance, sayin "diet sprite" or whatever im sure people will say erm... F gw im of to play something else

this started i believe with GTA thats where you seen things like "ZAP" = GAP, etc... blablabla, they said "makes game look that more like real life" makes people wanna shop at gap =P

i dont mind a few billboards popping up ever so often since its nice to see it looking realistic, but if i see "War machine drink it and win, SO CAN U" well i would concider leaving GW, or PvP ONLY, so i didnt have to go into towns to see NPC selling cola which deletes the DP since its refreshing

Feminist Terrorist · Jul 06, 2006, 11:53 PM // 23:53

No ads. No way. I get enough junk mail and email as it is. I don't want it in my only escape.

J snukka · Jul 07, 2006, 12:03 AM // 00:03

pop-up ads are a no no. I dont mind if the advertising is done in the login screen or if they implement in the environment. If we have them in in-game billboards it might be interesting to even see lol. I look at billboards when im driving the highway, why not in-game when im in town lol.

Carth` · Jul 07, 2006, 12:14 AM // 00:14

Adware would be bad (where it downloads ads from the Internet). I wouldn't want that.

I wouldn't object to product placement if it fitted with the game. I doubt there would be any products that fit into GW. However, in an FPS set in the modern day, they could have cans of coke on a desk, a certain brand of computer shown etc, like they do in movies.

Konrow · Jul 07, 2006, 12:19 AM // 00:19

I believe there was a funny pic posted somewhere of billboards in LA. pretty funyn tbh.

hellboy909 · Jul 07, 2006, 01:48 AM // 01:48

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Originally Posted by Konrow

I believe there was a funny pic posted somewhere of billboards in LA. pretty funyn tbh.

Took me a while, but I found it:

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...ight=billboard

Mr_T_bot · Jul 07, 2006, 02:58 AM // 02:58

They were trying to integrate this into Auto Assault, all you really need for successful marketing is a brief flash of a namebrand product, nothing overly intrusive, or overtly. Though Auto Assault never took off for some odd reason, it was like Vigilante 8 online.

MMSDome · Jul 07, 2006, 03:07 AM // 03:07

lol id liek to go to Lions Arch and see some to gonig around yelling "Pepsi!!" and advertisements, would be pretty cool to see them in game

Kook~NBK~ · Jul 07, 2006, 03:10 AM // 03:10

Imagine it!

Kingsford charcoal bags placed conveniently near Charr effigy fires! Big red K over the merchant's tent! Cinematics at the beginning of missions saying "This mission brought to you by our good friends at AT&T"

Please, never let this happen. If you've ever seen Species II, you'll remember how laughable the spaceship looked with all the ads plastered all over the outside of it!

J snukka · Jul 07, 2006, 03:13 AM // 03:13

im sure advertisments in-game won't be so out of place.

Olfin Bedwere · Jul 07, 2006, 03:28 AM // 03:28

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awesome sauce · Jul 07, 2006, 03:30 AM // 03:30

lol, I can See WM on the wheaties box right now.

Advertisements could be a good thing. Think about it...more advertisements means more $ which means more of those updates we all crave. As long as they don't go too over the top or upload DoubleCLick spyware to our computers, i'm all for it.

MMSDome · Jul 07, 2006, 03:45 AM // 03:45

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Originally Posted by awesome sauce

lol, I can See WM on the wheaties box right now.

Advertisements could be a good thing. Think about it...more advertisements means more $ which means more of those updates we all crave. As long as they don't go too over the top or upload DoubleCLick spyware to our computers, i'm all for it.

lol thats not bad of a idea, get the characters from the teams that win the championship and have them on billboards in towns or something. It all doenst need to be pepsi and stuff they can also have advertisements for in game stuff like bars.

Most of all i get tired of the same scenery when i make runs, itd be nice to look at a sign saying Mcdonalds next right.

hellboy909 · Jul 07, 2006, 04:36 AM // 04:36

Do it like Nascar. Sponsored armor!

I'll be wearing my Scientology Helm (+20 armor vs Xenu), Viagra Cuirass (+10 vs piercing attacks), KFC "White Meat Thigh" leggings and Budweiser boots (prevents Dwarven Ale from ever getting you drunk).

twicky_kid · Jul 07, 2006, 04:47 AM // 04:47

You do not want advertisements in game. They lobby goverment officials to make law changes to benifit them and the tv companies are forced to follow (its their only source of income).

The same would happen here. Once companies put ads in ad companies can force changes. The game industry would make the changes so they keep that extra cash coming in.

This happened with channels from LA/NY. You used to be able to get channels from LA/NY by requesting them. A waiver would be sent to your local channels gaining permission to receive these channels. People loved these channels because they could watch their shows earlier or later depending on your time zone. Then the ad companies got legislation past to bar people from getting these channels if you have local channels available in your area. Their argument was that people were watching the LA/NY channels and not receiving ads from the their local area which they had paid the local channels for. The legislation past and no more LA/NY channels if you have local channels in your area.

Ad companies are also trying to get DVR and TiVo banned because you can fast forward through the comercials. Before when VCRs were made difficult to set to record (you think that was on accident?) they never had this problem. Then DVR came in and gave that ability at a push of 1 button. Now they have a problem with it since anyone can use it easily.

Its been coming for a long time and will generate extra revenue for the game industry so I dought it will be turned down. Hope they know what they are dealing with first. These companies have friends in very high places. It might mean more cash for Anet but it also means accepting outside influences that will change your game and not always for the benifit of the player.

RTSFirebat · Jul 07, 2006, 05:13 AM // 05:13

No, no way!

There is no reason to add ads to this game.

Anyone who has played Planetside will know the horrors of when they added adverts to the game, in the form of screens all over the place.

Non-stop annoying spam!

In the end I had to setup my Firewall to block all these adverts, but at the end of the day they should have never been added in the first place.

Kaguya · Jul 07, 2006, 05:29 AM // 05:29

Ingame advertising would be kinda challenging, given that the products that most ads try to sell are based on modern day, when the game itself is back in the ye olde days of sword and shield.

Seeing an 'Superduper MP3 player' advertise ment ingame would kinda break the immersion... :P

Anarchy Online has had the ads for some time already for the free accounts, I have them disabled on my paid one, but they weren't that bad in the end, the billboards weren't that intrusive there, and the ads didn't break immersion that much, as the whole game is placed in future.

But GW doesn't really need those, it should be doing okay without the extra advert money.

Gwmaster · Jul 07, 2006, 05:40 AM // 05:40

eh!....this is old.

Plushie Penguin · Jul 07, 2006, 05:51 AM // 05:51

um.... guess that means your a fr00bie... or what ever the people in AO call the non paying people.. the people that pay are free from the adds.. AN better not copy off of that.....
if AN was going to put adds ingame.. I would hope they would keep it from being seen well, like a slight couple letters on a map on a cloud covered/unmaped part of the large map or something..