Ads in games have never bothered me. Sure they look a little odd, but usually they almost add to the experience. Of course, if I was playing Oblivion and saw a billboard in the middle of Imperial City telling me to buy Gillette Razers... well, then I'll be very disappointed. They just need to know where to draw the line. As long as it's kept to games that make sense or thins like the "Burgerking title," I don't care at all.
If it was appropriate, like billboards in racing games or posters in modern-day action/adventure games, it really wouldn't bother me.
It's a small price to pay to develop gaming goodness.
Yeah, I agree with Vamp. As long as the ads are kept within the correct time periods, I have no problem with it.
Heh. I can see TV commercials popping up after the logo screens. After sitting through an hour of extended TV commercials in the movie theatre, I don't rule anything out.
What makes you think there won't be advertising in Wii games? Loads of Gamecube games had sponsorship in them, too.
Here's hoping for KFC bucket items in SSBB
Colonel Sanders as a playable character would rock so much harder than Solid Snake, it puts Konami to shame.
**** that, give us some BK mascot. Now that would put Konami to shame.
I'm not too bothered about in-game advertising, as long as it doesn't affect the plot of the game itself, or makes the characters blurt out adverts.
The link below could be what would make it bad.
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Seeing in-game ads during the more modern games, as mentioned previously many times, like in Grand Theft Auto would be fine by me. In fact, I think it would add a realm further of realism as you could relate to the game...to a point.
"Hey, let's go to Burger King!"
"Okay!"
And etc. Hell, since Vamp mentioned it, if some franchise like GTA ever did something along these lines, they could hit the memes of the internet. Have a GTA mission where the King has a hit put on him for raping a Mafia boss's daughter or something.
[quote=Klarth]What makes you think there won't be advertising in Wii games? Loads of Gamecube games had sponsorship in them, too.
Yes, but it was few and far between, and it wasn't often used for development money. Devs must be getting desperate if they can't afford their big but completely unoriginal projects without use of lots of advertising. Future seems pretty bleak for the two "main" consoles, in my opinion.
In-game advertising...I sense loading screens with useless ads.
And that would really suck.
Nah, I doubt that's how it will play out. It'll probably be more "subtle" than that.
You know, I've always kind of liked sci-fi that takes place in the distant future where current businesses are still around. Taco Bell's domination of the restaurant business in Demolition Man, for example. I had always hoped that the Nintendo logo would pop up on the viewscreen whenever they activated the holodecks on Star Trek, too. I think it would have been a nice touch.
Anyway, where I'm going with that is that in-game advertising can be fun if used in that kind of context.
Thats not all too irrational seeing how some compainies and businesses are over a century old.
It's already happening, as I'm sure evryone knows. EA do it all the time - Burnout 3, for example, is full of billboards for Tiger Woods games and Battlefield as you streak by in your car.
That kind of thing I really couldn't care less about. It does make it more realistic, and - in a film, say - it's annoyingly obvious when they order a 'beer' without any specification, or if two people are drinking cans of Coke with the actual logo facing away from the camera on both cans.
As Demonblade said, when they start going The Truman Show on us it's time to start complaining.
Billboard type of things in sports games already occur. And the odd real life product use, like the Duracell battery in Pikmin 2, happen too. As long as a product advertisement isn't being rammed down my throat I'm fine.