Poll: So has an advert ever actually put you off spending money on the product advertised?

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tippy2k2 said:
Yah, another chance to complain about the ad that set gaming culture back a few years!

Dead Space 2

I liked Dead Space. I didn't love it but I was interested enough in it to purchase the sequel.

Then...


Yes, the "Your mom is going to hate this game" ad is every reason I have for not getting Dead Space 2. That commercial is so utterly insulting to everything it should mean to be a mature gamer that I absolutely refuse to give that game any type of support.

EDIT: See below for I have decided to give the game a go. However, removing this post seems like it would create a weird gap so I'm keeping it here!
Do you mean the "It will make your mum cry." ad? Because I still think that was pretty funny and everyone forgot about it like 2 days after it first aired.
If you want to see an ad that is truly insulting to gamers as a whole, go take a look at that 5 minute WiiU ad that was released a while ago.


Fucking patronising and insulting on every level I can think of.
 

AKChickabee

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How many of you people are familiar with the advert maker Tom Rubnitz who creates "disturbing randomness that seem to have no other point than to cause galactic jolts of fear, morbid curiosity, sexual insinuations, and demonic hellish nightmares."

Seriously, look at this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgWn7zbgxZ4

I swear this is one of the most horrifying things I have ever seen (Yes, even more than the Slenderman).
 

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Anyone in the UK has no doubt heard about Go Compare.

if not, well, you've been warned -


Because of this advert, I will never, ever use this company. They could give me £5 a year car insurance and 15 sexy russian models to be my wives, and I still would not touch them with a bargepole.
 

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There are adverts for 3 products that really puts me off buying them and those are, cars, perfume/deodorant and mobile phones.

Why?

Because they are so fucking pretentious that makes me want to throw stuff at the TV. Seriously, a car advert will show driving a certain car to be almost orgasmic experience, show me a car advert which basically goes "Its a car. It does this. Buy One" my money would not leave my wallet fast enough (not that I carry around enough money in my wallet to buy a car outright). Pretty much the same problem with mobile phone adverts, I use my phone for texting, phoning and an alarm clock. Everything else on my phone lays useless, I simply do not need it, yet every phone advert is determined to sell me stuff I don't need or use.

As for perfume adverts, which most of the time you have no idea what the fuck its about until the end of the advert. Its particularly bad around Christmas where perfume advertisers actually seem to have a pretentious off.

And deodorant adverts that make it seem that the only thing you need to score chicks is their deodorant. Looks, personality, sense of humour, these things we are told that women look for in a man. Nope, all you need is this deodorant and the women will flock to you. Sure, not smelling like a caveman does help with the women, but your cheap deodorant is not the aphrodisiac you claim it is.

Oh and beer adverts, namely Fosters, Carling, Bud, Coors and Millar. Stop spending so much money on trying to get me to drink your flavourless swill (yes all adverts are aimed at me).
 

BartyMae

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Whoa. I totally misread the title. Mostly every commercial I see makes me not want to buy the product(s) they're advertising. Though, I don't think a commercial has ever convinced me to buy anything ever, anyhow. They're all nonsense.
 

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The 'GoCompare' and 'ComparetheMarket' adverts.

I like the idea of comparison websites, I refuse to use these two as I refuse to allow them to think their irritating advertising has succeeded.


Conversely, Jean-Claude Van Damme has successfully sold Coors to me. As an Ale enthusiast and general hater of mass-produced shitty lagers, I would never have gone out and bought it except for the fact that those JCVD adverts are fucking awesome.
 

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Jacamo's "we have shirts in any size for REAL men."

Sizes from medium to xxxl

I'm a size extra small. You idiots.
 

SmilingWorlock

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I bought Old Spice because of the ad. But I really liked it more then my old ones, so I still buy them. Ads are not all bad.
 

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Catfood220 said:
There are adverts for 3 products that really puts me off buying them and those are, cars, perfume/deodorant and mobile phones.

Why?

Because they are so fucking pretentious that makes me want to throw stuff at the TV. Seriously, a car advert will show driving a certain car to be almost orgasmic experience, show me a car advert which basically goes "Its a car. It does this. Buy One" my money would not leave my wallet fast enough (not that I carry around enough money in my wallet to buy a car outright). Pretty much the same problem with mobile phone adverts, I use my phone for texting, phoning and an alarm clock. Everything else on my phone lays useless, I simply do not need it, yet every phone advert is determined to sell me stuff I don't need or use.

As for perfume adverts, which most of the time you have no idea what the fuck its about until the end of the advert. Its particularly bad around Christmas where perfume advertisers actually seem to have a pretentious off.

And deodorant adverts that make it seem that the only thing you need to score chicks is their deodorant. Looks, personality, sense of humour, these things we are told that women look for in a man. Nope, all you need is this deodorant and the women will flock to you. Sure, not smelling like a caveman does help with the women, but your cheap deodorant is not the aphrodisiac you claim it is.

Oh and beer adverts, namely Fosters, Carling, Bud, Coors and Millar. Stop spending so much money on trying to get me to drink your flavourless swill (yes all adverts are aimed at me).
You might like this commercial.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUTWz7nu_wk
 

Dandark

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It has happened to me before, it's really easy to get thrown off of something because of a crappy advert. EA adverts are usaully pretty terrible. I lost interest in the new Hitman game after the nun advert and I lose interest easily if they give out a crappy advert that makes me worry the game has been "dumbed down for the masses".
 

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Yep. For me it would be the game El Shaddai. I can't say that I had any particular interest in the game before the ad was posted here on The Escapist, but once the ad was posted it was literally the only ad the site was using. This would have been annoying enough but not a deal breaker.. except the way the ad was programmed basically broke the site and made it an extreme pain to view. After what seemed like a month of it they finally switched ads to something else and any potential interst I might have had in the game was long gone.
 

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I hardly watch TV now, and the TV that do i watch is streamed (legally) from the internet. So i can only really comment on adverts online.

Ad's for MMO's like Terra with scantly dressed women annoy the hell out of me because i feel it's exploiting my sexual orientation to garner attention.
 

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I feel I need to explain WHY the Dead Space 2 ad irked me so much since a number of people in here seem to think it's because I thought it was portraying gamers as immature, which, while a surface issue, is not my issue. Maybe I'm reading too deep into the ads but here is what I saw:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_v._Entertainment_Merchants_Association (you're going to get the cliff notes version down below):

The bill above was the "California to ban M-rated sales to minors". While the bill was being argued (November 2010 area), the Dead Space 2 ad came out. The makers of the bill argued that gaming companies were marketing M-rated video games to children and that's (one of the reasons) why the video game law forbidding the sales of M-rated games to children existed.

Dead Space 2 was doing it's damndest to prove them right. Now seriously, who over the age of 17 really gives a shit if their parents think that their video games are too violent? I'm sure there are a few but most normal adults don't really care if Mommy thinks that this is too much. Who does care about this though? Teenagers. Teenagers, the demographic that a M-rated game is not supposed to go after because it's outside their age-group. The very thing that the California bill was trying to stop and Dead Space 2's ad spit in the face of everyone arguing why the law was a bad idea.
 

Vault101

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imahobbit4062 said:
I noticed, but I still had to point out how foolish it was.

I'm fairly sure it was shorter than the first Dead Space. After finishing it I noticed I only had 6 hours and 9 minutes of playtime. Which is odd considering it felt a lot longer than that but it was still such a brilliant game. Not to mention Dead Space 3 is actually shaping up to be pretty sweet.
I hope so too

I can just imagine though some suit at EA probably said "we need cover based shooting", or mabye it was an actual game-play decisions..who knows

Dead Space was never really scary to me anyway
 

bl4ckh4wk64

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tippy2k2 said:
Yah, another chance to complain about the ad that set gaming culture back a few years!

Dead Space 2

I liked Dead Space. I didn't love it but I was interested enough in it to purchase the sequel.

Then...


Yes, the "Your mom is going to hate this game" ad is every reason I have for not getting Dead Space 2. That commercial is so utterly insulting to everything it should mean to be a mature gamer that I absolutely refuse to give that game any type of support.

EDIT: See below for I have decided to give the game a go. However, removing this post seems like it would create a weird gap so I'm keeping it here!

EDIT 2: See post 7, 10, 15, and 62 before you decide that I'm an idiot for this :)
Hey, I fully agree with you about that. That's the reason I didn't buy that game as well, and I don't really care how many people tell me how great it is. The advertising department was just plain stupid for even thinking of doing this and they lost out on my money for it.

Lemme guess though, did you see the Extra Credits pertaining to this?
 

tippy2k2

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bl4ckh4wk64 said:
Hey, I fully agree with you about that. That's the reason I didn't buy that game as well, and I don't really care how many people tell me how great it is. The advertising department was just plain stupid for even thinking of doing this and they lost out on my money for it.

Lemme guess though, did you see the Extra Credits pertaining to this?
I may have but I am currently at work so I can't access the EC videos to verify. I'll take a look when I get home
 

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Are you kidding? Like, half of every ad I have ever seen has done exactly that.

Most recently, those motherFUCKING paint ads that show a woman hanging out with a guy who has been creeplily covered in paint, with the slogan "Find your soul paint". It's sort of a play on words, but not really. And it's fucking horrible.

There's also an ad out there about a knife or something that shows some random MAN doing MANLY THINGS while a crazy hobo screams nonsense in the background. It's actually some sort of old-fashioned folk song, but....It really, really sounds like a crazy hobo screaming nonsense. And it is terrible.
 

JasonKaotic

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Anything that's advertised in a way that's intended to get in my way and stop me from doing whatever I'm doing to watch a video or something about it. Like when we're forced to watch an advert before a YouTube or Escapist video or something like that. Those are by far the worst kind of advertising to me, because the mentality can only be that their product is far more important than anything we could possibly be doing at that time.

Even worse when we have to watch the exact same advert every single time we want to watch another video on the same site. We get it. We've seen your product. Now shut up and let me watch some Zero Punctuation, Rage. You aren't even that good.

[small](Not that I'm moaning at The Escapist for that. Just whoever's marketing the product.)[/small]