Question of the Day, June 12, 2010
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I don't see why a company couldn't be sold the rights to place a spoof of one of their better known ads in game, in a context that makes sense for the game. We don't get beat over the head with product placement, they still get their message out.
But the companies could think of their own ad that would not go onto a billboard because of it being vulgar so something else, it lets them have a creative outlet that the game companies allow them to use through money and if they are good we can laugh. Though that is just my idea on how it should workRaphaelsRedemption said:
company makes funny ad->pays game company to fit it in if there is a billboard->it is put in if funny->we laugh game company makes more money!
Games development is difficult and expensive, and not every developer can rely on Microsoft or Sony spotting them a few million to get the title out the door.
If they need to resort to in-game advertising, that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make as long as it's not intrusive. If I'm playing Saint's Row 2 or Blur and I see billboards for real products, that's an example of excellent in game advertising. Hell, I'd even go for an in game television like in GTAIV that occasionally played real advertisements instead of joke ones.
Come to think of it, I don't think I've seen a game with intolerable advertising, but a bad example (just making one up as I go along) would be if I were playing Fallout 3 and I couldn't turn on the reactor without the refreshing taste of Sprite.
If they need to resort to in-game advertising, that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make as long as it's not intrusive. If I'm playing Saint's Row 2 or Blur and I see billboards for real products, that's an example of excellent in game advertising. Hell, I'd even go for an in game television like in GTAIV that occasionally played real advertisements instead of joke ones.
Come to think of it, I don't think I've seen a game with intolerable advertising, but a bad example (just making one up as I go along) would be if I were playing Fallout 3 and I couldn't turn on the reactor without the refreshing taste of Sprite.
Aw, poor little Playboy is trying to save a dying medium. Boohoo.
Hahah.
On topic, I don't necessarily mind advertising in games or movies. As long as they keep it tastefull. The shoes scene in I, Robot was pretty tasteless, but stuff like having generic advertisements appropriate for the setting in the background is absolutely fine.
L4D series, for example, are set in modern time. So there's nothing wrong with having various ads on like billboards or posters, that only adds immersion.
When it comes to games that aren't based in modern time, and are based in absolutely unearthly places and times, then advertisements probably don't exactly fit in. Although I'm all for absolutely fictional advertisements for extra immersion.
Although that doesn't really apply to today's question, so might as well not bother talking about it.
Hahah.
On topic, I don't necessarily mind advertising in games or movies. As long as they keep it tastefull. The shoes scene in I, Robot was pretty tasteless, but stuff like having generic advertisements appropriate for the setting in the background is absolutely fine.
L4D series, for example, are set in modern time. So there's nothing wrong with having various ads on like billboards or posters, that only adds immersion.
When it comes to games that aren't based in modern time, and are based in absolutely unearthly places and times, then advertisements probably don't exactly fit in. Although I'm all for absolutely fictional advertisements for extra immersion.
Although that doesn't really apply to today's question, so might as well not bother talking about it.
I have no problem with adverts, as long as they're done tastefully. The problem, of course, is that it's a slippery slope that will one day end up with BUDWEISER'S NEED FOR SPEED BY BUDWEISER
I thought more people would be annoyed by this, but they don't care. I've even seen people say there should be real ads in GTA, which to me means they don't get what GTA is about at all.
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I thought more people would be annoyed by this, but they don't care. I've even seen people say there should be real ads in GTA, which to me means they don't get what GTA is about at all.
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A magazine of pornography... a dying medium of a dying genre (well, paid pornography at least). I feel sorry for them now.Billion Backs said:
I don't mind seeing a billboard in a racing game or third-person shooter, if it's appropriate to the setting. In the former case I'll be past it in moments; in the latter, if it bothers me that much, I have the option to put my "eyes" elsewhere.
Then there's games like "XIII", which made me sit through three lengthy ad/logo screens every time I loaded it, and then told me to switch disks. (Die in a fire!)
Then there's games like "XIII", which made me sit through three lengthy ad/logo screens every time I loaded it, and then told me to switch disks. (Die in a fire!)
Wow, the first post is spot on.UnableToThinkOfName said:
I was okay with Energizer batteries in Alan Wake. It fit.
But then at the last epic level as you try and do spoilers, you're confronted with a big 'ole billboard for Verizon that only says Verizon. If it had LOOKED like a billboard, it would have been okay, but all it said was Verizon.
I am FLABERGASTED that you guys actually think that advertising in games is ok for any reason. Free to play games is about the only thing that I am ok with advertising.
If I payed 60 dollars to play a game, I do not think it is ok to try to sell me other people's shit while I try to enjoy myself in a game. No, not alright, not now, not ever.
If I payed 60 dollars to play a game, I do not think it is ok to try to sell me other people's shit while I try to enjoy myself in a game. No, not alright, not now, not ever.