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@=XDC= wild egg tamer wrote:
here’s an idea ? Don’t try to publish half arsed releases every year, instead how about a longer development time and the full weight of resources behind a particular title in a series (BF3 ? )…..???
Nicely said WET.
“If gamers still want to have a high amount of good quality titles year in and year out, there needs to be alternate revenue streams”
No there doesn’t. Alternate revenue streams? My arse.
They’re doing it because they can, and because they want more money. Incidentally I think these guys have something to do with it:
http://www.massiveincorporated.com/
Here’s what some ‘gamerz’ had to say about the ingame advertising which has been pioneered by Massive:
GAMER REACTION
Massive has served over eleven million game sessions, and the gamer feedback has been overwhelmingly positive.
Extensive research conducted by Massive IncorporatedSM and play testing amongst gamers concluded that over 90% of gamers do not mind advertising in video games.
The following feedback was taken directly from our Publisher Partners’ Web sites. Gamers care about their games – and the advertising in them.
“I love the idea of having actual advertisements in a game instead of fake, made-up companies. I’ve always wondered why more games didn’t try to do this.â€ÂÂÂ
“I would like seeing a Coke machine, or a Pepsi machine, or (in this case) one that reads Diet Sprite. That’s what it looks like in real life.â€ÂÂÂ
“I think the ads are cool as long as they make sense…the soda machine looks awesome.â€ÂÂÂ
“I think the in-game advertising initiative is brilliant. I play quite often and find the billboards enhance the reality of the game, are completely unobtrusive and dynamic.â€ÂÂÂ
“An ingame campaign of this sort will appeal to the 18-34 male demographic which has been a traditionally hard market segment to monopolise. Erm… Wicked.”
Alright, I made the last quote up, but you get the idea. Brand marketing departments are literally creaming themselves over this idea of advertising in games, mainly because people like us (XDC, 1stBW, 7DR, 256, etc.) don’t watch much TV and aren’t easily swayed by advertising. Ever wondered why so many adverts and TV shows pander to women? It’s because they’re watching more TV than men. We’re more likely to buy a DVD (or download it) of the TV show or movie that we like, than sit through it on the box.
That means we’re not seeing the adverts for male mosturiser lotions or whichever razor has the most blades and (shock horror) making up our own minds as to what we should buy. Even worse, we actually read reviews of the products we’re interested in before buying 😯
However, what’s the benefit to us gamers? If it means that BF2142 retails at £25 rather than £35, then I’ll be for it but if there’s no noticeable difference with the advertising (other than lag) then I shall be displeased.
@=XDC=NeonSamurai wrote:
Ever wondered why so many adverts and TV shows pander to women? It’s because they’re watching more TV than men.
Well that explains why the missus eats Special K all day and why my cock is sore. Cheers Neon.
@TurksMeister wrote:
or perhaps…. (sorry for the crudeness – M$ paint!!)
didn’t a game already incorporate an “order pizza” function in it ? i seem to remember it was an RPG of sorts……. 😕
@=XDC= wild egg tamer wrote:
@TurksMeister wrote:
or perhaps…. (sorry for the crudeness – M$ paint!!)
didn’t a game already incorporate an “order pizza” function in it ? i seem to remember it was an RPG of sorts……. 😕
EverQuest II – bring up console and type pizza. It then takes you to dominos online
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