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06-04-2008, 04:34 PM
|  | i hate goats | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: some western town
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| | | Sony goes in-game advertising for PS3
In not-too-surprising news, Sony has gone the way of everyone else, and will begin in-game advertisements on the PS3. Quote: |
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In-game advertising will be sold and delivered to PS3 through advertisement distribution partners, with IGA Worldwide selected as the first partner.
| Shockingly, EA was quick to join them. ROFL Quote: |
Originally Posted by article
The advertisements are integrated within the gaming environment in order to deliver a seamless and more authentic game environment. EA has worked with IGA on various projects to date, and this agreement builds on that successful partnership.
| IGA WorldWide IGA and EA Ars Technica
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06-04-2008, 04:37 PM
|  | .:. plageclochard | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Delawhere?
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| | | as long as this drives the cost down of BOTH hardware and software...I'm somewhat okay with it...but it'll most likely be seen as OH LOOK NEW REVENUE SOURCE, YIPPEE!!!...and that's going to be awful for gamers in the long run...
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06-04-2008, 04:42 PM
| | i hate goats | | Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: some western town
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| | Quote:
Originally Posted by joe  | i don't mind, as long as it doesn't become crazy, like DukeNukem taking a break from killing alien bastards for a 4-minute Burger King cut scene.
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06-04-2008, 04:49 PM
| | .:. plageclochard | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Delawhere?
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| | | in many ways it's not a bad fit...racing games, urban-based shooters, sports games...advertising is natural in those environments...my main concern is A) having to watch a commercial to get to the game, or during the loading period, B) a new source of revenue doing nothing to either improve the games or bring their costs down, and C) once again the end-user being exploited...
the last point is more an issue with PC games...in-game advertising on servers that the general public pays for is a bit of an ass move, as the server operator (the person paying for the space advertised in) will never see a dime from it...
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06-04-2008, 04:50 PM
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| | | oh, I don't think the advertising money will make the games less expensive, it just offsets the cost for the developers. We'll get shafted, as usual, and not in a good way.
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06-04-2008, 04:55 PM
|  | m00tini! | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Some Hotel Somewhere
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 : 71 st | | | I agree. This isnt a way to lower prices, its just another revenue stream |
06-04-2008, 05:15 PM
|  | He punched out all my blood! | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Winston-Salem
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: 43 rd | | | I still get pissed off if I have to watch a commercial before a movie. |
06-05-2008, 12:13 AM
|  | Gumby will pwn you. | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Somewhere That Sucks
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| | | why doesn't it surprise me that "EA was quick to join them."
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06-05-2008, 07:54 AM
|  | Sweet Lord | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: England/Barbados
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| | | I don't really mind, its just that when I played Rainbow 6 Vegas and all the cars were Dodges, and the huge billboards for axe kinda irked me.
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06-06-2008, 01:08 AM
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| | | man I have rainbow six vegas for ps3 and it didnt really impress me. I bought it cause I played it on the 360 and it was dope but I guess it was only good on the 360.
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