Sony Could Interrupt Your Games With Ads

[rembrandtqeinstein]

Cool if the game was free, otherwise no sale. Or a router level block to adserver address.

 

[jklinders]

Yet another example of anti-consumerism from Sony. I'm actually a little astonished that their customer base has not completely fled from them yet.

I hope this wakes a few more folks up and keeps them from buying into their next gen console. None of the consoles are great but Sony exemplifies an attitude towards their customers that states that they can fuck them anytime they want to.

Anyway, buy their crap if you want, but don't complain when they start messing around with you.

 

[Jabberwock King]

Spoiler: I feel this to be an appropriate response.

Fuck Sony...haaaaard...

 

[Zeckt]

I would never, ever buy sony again and simply buy a custom gaming rig. This is why Apple DESTROYED sony for being stupid.

 

[ElPatron]

There is product placement, billboards, non-intrusive ads and whatever.

I liked when youtube had just a square on the side with ads. I don't mind Nicki Minaj looking at me while I am listening to music on a vevo channel. I don't mind that black bar on the bottom.

But a 3 minute ad that I can only skip after one minute? That buffers perfectly? The video I was about to watch was less than a minute long and it buffered terribly!

Never put the monetizing process in front of the service.

Yet another example of anti-consumerism from Sony. I'm actually a little astonished that their customer base has not completely fled from them yet.

This. I used to be a die-hard Sony fanboy and just got fed up. I only buy Sony when I find it's justifiable. My last Sony purchase was a PSP.

Like Jim Sterling said, consoles were convenient in the past. Now they are shit PCs.

I used to say the same just a few years ago and everyone thought I was insane. I hate being right some times.

 

[jklinders]

There is product placement, billboards, non-intrusive ads and whatever.

I liked when youtube had just a square on the side with ads. I don't mind Nicki Minaj looking at me while I am listening to music on a vevo channel. I don't mind that black bar on the bottom.

But a 3 minute ad that I can only skip after one minute? That buffers perfectly? The video I was about to watch was less than a minute long and it buffered terribly!

Never put the monetizing process in front of the service.

Yet another example of anti-consumerism from Sony. I'm actually a little astonished that their customer base has not completely fled from them yet.

This. I used to be a die-hard Sony fanboy and just got fed up. I only buy Sony when I find it's justifiable. My last Sony purchase was a PSP.

Like Jim Sterling said, consoles were convenient in the past. Now they are shit PCs.

I used to say the same just a few years ago and everyone thought I was insane. I hate being right some times.

Indeed. I had a chat with a co-worker about this about 5 years ago not long after the rootkit fiasco came out. He blubbered and blustered trying to say it was a separate division of Sony yaddayaddayadda while standing by his beloved platform. This was I think before Sony took away the right to install separate OS on the PS 3. So much has transpired since I wonder what his outlook is now. I have not seen him for several years.

Sony has set a high hardware standard for a long time but they have shown only contempt for consumers in the process. I'll live in a cave before knowingly giving those assholes even one dime of my money.

 

[samaugsch]

The only time I don't care to see an ad is at this screen:

http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110928112834/battlefield/images/5/59/Operation_Metro_Rush_Loading_Screen_-_Consoles.gif

You know, the screen where nothing is happening while the map loads?

So long as it doesn't happen when I am pinned down in the middle of a sniper zone, I could give less of a shit. I could imagine the irony when Pepsi is advertised while I am drinking my coke.

Though I also wouldn't care if there was a pepsi billboard stopping Tank Rounds from hitting me.

This kind of thinking is the problem. When you let them do stuff like that, thinking it's irrelevant, it doesn't take them long before they start doing more awful things. No ads at all is the only acceptable deal! No fuckin' compromise of any kind.

For free games, that's out of the question. For paid games, yeah maybe.

 

[Jodah]

Good god.........seriously, if even half the rumors about the next generation of consoles prove to be true, I'd say there's a 95% chance the last console I buy will be the 360 I currently own. >.>

I've already decided to give up on the next console generation. Going strictly PC. Only the handhelds will be a possibility and I've yet to get a 3DS or Vita so it is a slim chance.

 

[SextusMaximus]

PC and Next gen xbox? I think so.

 

[Hat Man]

If you're going to put ads in games put them in the loading screens.

This is just asking to get hacked and disabled.

 

[Callate]

And in a few years, people will be posting about how it could be worse, how do we expect companies to make a profit, we're a bunch of entitled whiners to complain...

It isn't even that the goalposts for the status quo are planted in hell sometimes that surprises me anymore; it's how fast they can move deeper into hell while people still make excuses.

I'm sorry. I don't mean to come off as one of those "better than all of you" misanthropes whose self-image is dependent on maintaining an air of jaded disdain. But I'm really getting a little tired of seeing developments that have me hoping against hope that I'm wrong in my grim expectations.

 

[ace_of_something]

I can imagine it ruining a dramatic cut scene. Cuz unlike television the writing won't be planned for breaks. This is just a stupid idea. However ads in loading screens wouldn't be all that bad.

 

[Arcane_squirrel]

god that is a slap to the face of all gamers

 

[SmegInThePants]

using the ps4 as an example - if they made the ps4 ad supported, as in you get the console and the games for free, i'd be fine w/it. It'd be an interesting new take on the console wars. Otherwise, its intolerable. If i pay money, there better not be ads.

 

[Bitcoon]

Well, the Wii U and Nextbox just got a whole lot more appealing as my main next-gen console choices...

 

[CharrHearted]

I've almost defeated you now, just a f-

"Are you paying too much on your car insurance?"

In the words of russell howard "Fuck off"

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

 

[Your Fearless Captain]

I would expect something like this from Microsoft. I would never buy a PS4 if it featured this.

 

[Gormech]

Won't happen, at least for many titles.

Random ads = fastest way to break immersion = less sales = less $$$

It's simple business.

 

[Danzavare]

I want to say that people will never stand for this, but youtube and in-video ads still exist.

I'm just going to outright avoid consoles/companies/games that do this, unless they're free to play and don't impact other pay to play game experiences.

.....

Please don't do it Sony. ;_;

 

[Alar]

-Slams his head against his desk again... and again... and again... and again.-