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

[RatRace123]

This commercial has made me not want to get not just a Toyota Highlander, but any Toyota car.
I mean, when you advertise your product as being for the arrogant, elitist douche with rich parents it kinda puts off a lotta people.

Seriously, screw this little curly haired bastard.

 

[gazumped]

Well, they haven't actually changed my mind about buying products I was going to buy anyway, but they have made me more reluctant to, or feel more justified about not buying them if I wasn't going to.

Advert for something I'd buy anyway because it's yummy but the advert makes me ashamed to like it:

Spoiler: Starbucks blended frappuccinos

It was just... so annoying... I don't even know why I find it so irritating... is it just me?

And the advert for something I wasn't going to buy anyway but made me hate it even more that I'm thinking of was for some new iPhone model. It was just the closing line:

"If you don't have an iPhone..." *condescending tone* "Well... then you don't have an iPhone."

It was like Apple is not only shameless but proud of having a smug, obnoxious identity...

 

[kasperbbs]

Some terrible Ghost Recon Future Soldier's ad with an ugly pornstar killed any shred of interest i still had in that game, words can't describe how bad that ad was.

 

[Froggy Slayer]

The iPad. I saw a 30 minute promotional thing in business class with them selling it like it was the coming of robot Jesus or something. It was so damn annoying, every 30 seconds someone in an identical black turtleneck saying 'The iPad is the absolute best in...*something that something else is better at*'

 

[RedDeadFred]

I can't think of an ad that has made me hate a product more.

This a thousand times. After seeing it a couple of times on our TV listings channel I finally got so fed up with it that I vowed never to visit that channel again. I have kept to that vow.

 

[Black Reaper]

I'm sorry,i accidentally clicked the no button because i read the question wrong

Back to topic: yes,i think the ads of today are fucking stupid,even if i never,ever turn on my tv to watch something,whenever i go to the movies i spend the whole ad time before the movie playing on whatever portable system i have at the time,i also don't remember ever having bought anything because of an ad,save for one occasion,on my favorite anime(Darker than Black) whenever someone orders a pizza,its pizza hut,if i ever order a pizza,its always pizza hut,i believe that i may be somehow supporting the animation studio by buying pizza

 

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I always like the PC guy more in those PC/mac ads if that counts - the mac guy is so smug that I'll never buy another apple product.

 

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Apple seems to be a common theme on this thread and it's easy to see why, I remember a few years back they did an advert with Mitchell and Webb, without realising that Mitchell was the likeable one and accidentally turned it into an advert for Microsoft.

It wasn't mitchel & webb in the land of septics, but I still preferred the PC guy.

 

[MetaKnight19]

I've never looked at a Pot Noodle the same since...

 

[halfeclipse]

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...

Spoiler: You've probably seen me bitching about this before...

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.

How is that remotely insulting? Kill the bad jokes, throw in some profanity, and replace video calls/wii message board with Google and I doubt there's a single person on the site that hasn't done exactly that.

 

[Miles000]

I typically work on a system the more something is advertised the worse it is as they want more publicity so more people will buy it.

Anyway. The National Tiles radio ads.
Anyone who has heard them will agree.

Damn you right to a place worse than hell. I have national tiles stuck in my head now and it won't go away.

Helooooooooooo! Frank Walker for National Tiiiiileeees!
...
Everything after that is white noise.

 

[Blackdoom]

I typically work on a system the more something is advertised the worse it is as they want more publicity so more people will buy it.

Anyway. The National Tiles radio ads.
Anyone who has heard them will agree.

Damn you right to a place worse than hell. I have national tiles stuck in my head now and it won't go away.

Helooooooooooo! Frank Walker for National Tiiiiileeees!
...
Everything after that is white noise.

And then you wake up covered in blood and surrounded by tiles.

 

[Miles000]

I typically work on a system the more something is advertised the worse it is as they want more publicity so more people will buy it.

Anyway. The National Tiles radio ads.
Anyone who has heard them will agree.

Damn you right to a place worse than hell. I have national tiles stuck in my head now and it won't go away.

Helooooooooooo! Frank Walker for National Tiiiiileeees!
...
Everything after that is white noise.

And then you wake up covered in blood and surrounded by tiles.

Dammit. Not again.

 

[Brad Calkins]

I've got a couple like Ford's "You cheated off our engineers in math class." commercial, those ones where the little kid talks about how his parents were lame before they bought an SUV, or really any commercial specifically targeted at men, because they all assume you're stupid.

 

[Wolf In A Bear Suit]

yeah i got one MASSIVE pain in the ass ad....
its so bad it requires a spoiler... (which i can't for the love of me, remember how to name)
you have been warned.
[spoiler horrible ad]
[/spoiler]

this ad makes me ashamed to say i work there.......

DON'T LOOK AT ME!!!!!

Well I think you win worst ad award. That was by far the most painfully awkward advert I have ever seen. Do those memory wipe thing's they have in Men in Black exist or am I going to have to used the old fashioned remedy. I find most ad's Nintendo do for Mario games to be painful to watch

 

[Muffin Button]

Brits will know...
There was a certain frosties advert that makes the Go Compare guy sound positively angelic in comparison.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUKSxsxeBK4

 

[VanQ]

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.

How is that remotely insulting? Kill the bad jokes, throw in some profanity, and replace video calls/wii message board with Google and I doubt there's a single person on the site that hasn't done exactly that.

Because it looks like a bunch of people at a board meeting sat down and watched an episode of Big Bang Theory, saw Sheldon acting like a fuckwit and assumed all gamers love that kind of shit because it's "lol so randumb and nerdy" then paid someone to make an advertisement off such an assumption.
You might act like an assclown like this guy does, but I sure as hell do not. I also can't fucking stand the coke-bottle "Look at me I'm so fucking nerdy" glasses he's wearing. There are much less obnoxious eyewear options in this day and age.

 

[halfeclipse]

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.

How is that remotely insulting? Kill the bad jokes, throw in some profanity, and replace video calls/wii message board with Google and I doubt there's a single person on the site that hasn't done exactly that.

Because it looks like a bunch of people at a board meeting sat down and watched an episode of Big Bang Theory, saw Sheldon acting like a fuckwit and assumed all gamers love that kind of shit because it's "lol so randumb and nerdy" then paid someone to make an advertisement off such an assumption.
You might act like an assclown like this guy does, but I sure as hell do not. I also can't fucking stand the coke-bottle "Look at me I'm so fucking nerdy" glasses he's wearing. There are much less obnoxious eyewear options in this day and age.

So basically if it was 5 minutes of someone gritting they're teeth with a bit of grimacing in silence it would be fine and the problem is that they they had the actor describe what was going on?

If so please delete any tv shows and movies you have on your computer,throw away any phtiscal copies of the same, cancel any subscription to netflix, etc and block hulu, etc. Pretty much every TV/Movie in existence does that.

 

[shrekfan246]

I'm going to challenge myself and the board and say "John Romero is about to make you his *****." I apologize if it has been said, but that is the most obvious example I could think of and I was definitely NOT buying Daikatana after that. I don't even know why they released a demo for that textured and programmed vomit bag.

At least the final game wasn't a broken, buggy mess with terrible forced escort missions with even more terrible AI that had no survival instincts!

Honestly, for myself I think a better question would be "Has an advert ever actually made you want to buy something?" because I can't really think of any that I've seen in the last... seven years that made me go "Oh, oh, I just gotta have that!"

As for the actual topic at hand, what EA did with Dante's Inferno and Yahtzee was pretty cool. What EA did to advertise it to the rest of the world... not so much. The aforementioned 'Your mom will hate it!' commercials as well (though I had little interest in Dead Space at the time anyway). And all of those Snuggie, Shamwow, Oxiclean, and whatever else commercials that infest television. At least back when they had Billy Mays, Oxiclean was amusing to watch.

 

[rodneyy]

as a few people have said go compare it annoyed me to such a degree that i vowed to never use their service even thought i still dont know exactly what they are selling.

i took to turning off the tv when it came on and sometimes forgetting to turn it back on again that just made me more annoyed with it