Sony Could Interrupt Your Games With Ads

[shrekfan246]

I was well aware of what the OP said and what the Patent details are. I was merely stating what would be tolerable in my opinion. Honestly i think this is all rumors and nonsense til the next gen is announced. Everyone is up in arms about no used games, and new DRM. I say let em try. When every company goes bankrupt for trying to force stupid nonsense on customers, then maybe we can have a say

Fair enough. I'm not usually one to jump on to the whole speculation train, really, but it has just seemed lately that most of the big publishers and Sony/Microsoft just can't do anything to project a positive image. I don't honestly believe that Sony would do something like this, but if they did...

 

[Epona]

I was well aware of what the OP said and what the Patent details are. I was merely stating what would be tolerable in my opinion. Honestly i think this is all rumors and nonsense til the next gen is announced. Everyone is up in arms about no used games, and new DRM. I say let em try. When every company goes bankrupt for trying to force stupid nonsense on customers, then maybe we can have a say

Fair enough. I'm not usually one to jump on to the whole speculation train, really, but it has just seemed lately that most of the big publishers and Sony/Microsoft just can't do anything to project a positive image. I don't honestly believe that Sony would do something like this, but if they did...

Someone said the patent dates back to 2006. I believe Sony would have done it with the PS3 if it had sold better but as it was, they couldn't afford to piss people off (even though they have done a few other things to piss people off). I think Sony intends to use it eventually.

 

[Atmos Duality]

I must question: Who the FUCK would willingly put up with this shit in a product they PAID FOR?

TV and internet shows, I see why that works (cable TV is fucking stupid though, and contradictory to its original premise).

Money isn't magically flying out of my pocket when I turn my TV on or watch some online show. They're fighting over ratings to pay for the cost of programming, or ad-hits from traffic. Fine. That's how they make money.

But with a game you paid for? Totally unnecessary. It's just ruining the experience (THE WHOLE FUCKING POINT OF PLAYING) you're paying for the game just randomly cuts to a commercial.

 

[getoffmycloud]

One thing everyone is missing as well is this would require an always online console so the ads can be updated over time

 

[Epona]

One thing everyone is missing as well is this would require an always online console so the ads can be updated over time

...and I am betting that you won't be able to opt-out be disconnecting from the internet.

 

[DonTsetsi]

What if I was in the middle of a multiplayer match in CoD: 7: THE FUTURE IS BROWN STILL, and I stop because I have to know how I can bulk buy Bulgarian field rats for the low price of $500 per metric tonne?

What the fuck? What do you have against Bulgaria? And field rats... Seriously??? You may not know it, but people don't like it when you insult their country.

 

[Raesvelg]

I find it highly unlikely that anyone would implement a system like that for paid games. It does, however, offer an opportunity for a company like Sony to offer free games/extended demos that are advertising supported, which is pretty much the norm in the smartphone market.

 

[yeti585]

I haven't bought a Sony console since the ps2, the giant brick-like one, but I'd join the army that stormed Sony's offices with torches and pitchforks.

 

[Tradjus]

Well, if this is just going to be some new way to monetize free to play games, I don't mind it. If they really have the balls to insert ads into sixty dollar games, then I will have absolutely no problem joining the protests in front of Sony HQ.

 

[Rumpsteak]

I wont support this if only for the fact that no company anywhere seems to have the ability to match the sounds level of the advertisement to that of the media it is interrupting. Seriously, fiddling with sound levels every time an advertisement comes on drives me bloody insane.

 

[Olas]

Oh god, this is so terrible. Advertising is the bane of capitalism and the free market, as well as media and culture in general. The world would be way better without it. Anyone who disagrees, come at me, please.

Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

[Namehere]

Product placement can be used to enhance immersion in a game world. Who can imagine playing a game that takes place in Time Square NY where there aren't a million and one adds? Modern setting are already loaded down with ads, why the hell not? At that point it adds to the realism.

I figure this won't go anywhere and its protection for its own sake, you know in case someone else actually tries to release a gaming console/unit thingamabob with that idea and it takes off, then Sony will try to claim patent infringement or some such nonsense.

On the other hand, given how much the Gaming Industry likes to screw its players these days, who knows, could be coming to a PS4 near you. And if that remotely flies you can be sure Microsoft will either steal it, buy it or develop its own version for the whatever their next console will be called. I don't see this being integrated into PC hardware though. A lot of PC owners tend to know what they're buying these days, especially those who buy computers to game with, so they'd take one look at a GPU or CPU with that shit on it and walk.

 

[AbstractStream]

Don't do it Sony. You're poking at a wasp hive if you continue with this train of thought.
Don't. Do it.

 

[Tiger Sora]

Cyanide pill. If they implement this into new games on the PS3 and Vita they're swallowing that pill. The shit storm would be bigger than the ME3 debacle. I'm not a sony guy anymore, but this worries me that it could spread.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

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.

 

[AstylahAthrys]

Sony, no. Just... no. Please. I know I've never bought one of your consoles, but I've come close many times. You will never see a penny from me, and many people like me, should you do this. I will not put up with ads while I'm playing a game. Put some ads on the console menus, maybe like on XBL's dashboard, but never one that will interrupt me while playing a game.

Spoiler: What I would have just posted if there were no low content rules

 

[PsiMatrix]

It's a shame there's no italics for article titles. Sony could interrupt your games with ads but probably won't, might not even do it and no info as to what specific system they'd use it for. As said; it'd only work best on an always-on platform like a smartphone system or maybe for the next Vita.

Far more likely they're patenting the idea to make sure no-one else can use it OR anyone who did would have to pay Sony royalties.

Spoiler

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I don't think I've laughed so hard at a video in ages. Who the hell made this?

Clear Blue. Yes, really. Saw it on TV myself on several occasions and laughed each time. It is a genuine advert.

 

[Something Amyss]

Oh. So it was. Combined with my point that it was worthless for them to try this ends rather nicely.

"Pointless" is an incredibly subjective term and probably a bad one to use here.

 

[0p3rati0n]

Ads placed within games? Sure I can deal with that. I've seen it done before. Doesn't bother me in the slightest.
Ads replacing the loading screen for maps? Go right ahead.
Ads on the home screen when I first turn on my console? Xbox does it and the ads are that obstructive. I'm cool.

Spoiler: ads interrupting in midgame

 

[theultimateend]

If you sell me the console really cheap and give me free games (including AAA games) sure, I might can deal.

They'd start out free, then become 5 bucks and so on and so forth.

So I'd suggest just not being ok with it so you don't lose what is available now.

Me personally? I'm 100% with clever in game marketing, like my hero drinking pepsi. I even liked that not-so-subtle sprite game on the Sega.

Just don't have actual ads break gameplay.

Shit most games are in the real world, we are all subjected to SO much marketing everyday that they could do it without breaking immersion.

I must question: Who the FUCK would willingly put up with this shit in a product they PAID FOR?

Everyone who buys movies and tv shows >_>.

The ads on those things get longer and longer, and it becomes trickier and trickier to skip the intro nonsense.

Probably why I rarely ever buy any of that stuff anymore.