• Mattes
  • Mattes
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  • Registered: 2006-11-27
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Re: Your thoughts on in-game advertisements

As long as it doesn't spoil immersion.

  • Registered: 2006-10-10
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Re: Your thoughts on in-game advertisements

Still I find it odd that some games that don't have ingame adds have the same price as games that do have. I.E.: Oblivion and many others. As they have the same production costs.

And BF2142 is a great example of this. It's not a "new"game. They took BF2 and added a bit here and removed a bit there and hey presto a new game is released, which essentially is a mod.
The price we had to pay was that of a "new" commercial game.

I can understand that because of the stats-tracking they would have extra costs, but if a game like Quake Wars is able to do the same without ingame ads, you start to wonder.

Ingame ads are not really a big problem, but the fact I get the pushed upon me everywhere I go, does start to bother me.

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  • Registered: 2006-03-10
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Re: Your thoughts on in-game advertisements

I don't particulararray care (however you spell it) but a bit of price should be knocked off of the RRP because of the ads. Because I'm in the Uk, they aren't allowed to do that, but I don't mind.

That info-gathering thing is just plain out of order. There should be an option, like on MSN Plus.

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  • Registered: 2007-04-10
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Re: Your thoughts on in-game advertisements

What info gathering?

The IP address reader?

The IP address that this site just read?

THe IP address that the game had ALREADY read to allow you to play online?

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  • Boydie
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  • Registered: 2007-06-04
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Re: Your thoughts on in-game advertisements

I have actually quite enjoyed seeing the in-game advertising - it does add a little "interest" to the maps, especially if they keep changing them - like your drive to work, anything that makes it a little more interesting can only be a good thing

Ordinarily I would commend a company coming up with another income stream to support with the costs of developing computer games (which is getting more and more expensive and is starting to approach Movie budgets!)

However, before I get the volin out for the poor software companies I must say that I totally agree with the idea that BF2142 is essentially a MOD! and therefore a reduction in price due to the advertising would have been nice

As long as the advertising does not affect my connection and cause lag I am quite relaxed about it

I don't even lose sleep about the "info gathering" - If I get ads for things I may be more interested in then so much the better - I am sure that there are loads of gadgets out there that I don't know I need yet wink (but don't tell the wife!!!!)