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Absolutely no fees at all. Download and play every part of it. Shop items bought only through in game currency.
- but the game cost is subsidized by adverts - either through product placement, signage etc. Or through actual adverts at character sign on, or during flight.
Would you play..........?
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In theory, yes. As long as it wasn't like "The Taco Bell Sword of Destruction".
However, such a thing could probably never work. There wouldn't be enough money brought in to cover the cost of a high quality AAA product. Look at movies. They add product placement, along with selling ad space through the form of previews, to help cover the cost and they sell the movie to viewers, even then it isn't rare to see a movie not make back its cost (and major games like AAA MMOs are already rivaling the cost of movie production).
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Works great for tv. TV dramas costs like $2M an episode to make. A season is like $40M .. not unlike MMO budgets.
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You mean you wouldn't stop in a McDonald's in Lions Arch (GW2) for some McRaptor Wings?
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Yes.
I have complained that this was an untapped venue for quite a while. It works for TV and boosts movies quite a bit, why not games?
It's a big no and I would hope the general audience wouldn't entirely accept it, especially ones that have seen Idiocracy. It might be a ridiculous movie but strangely it feels like its slowly becoming a sad reality.
The other thing too is how I despise the advertising industry in general. Don't get me wrong, I can see where it is actually useful but I believe its abused and exploited to a degree beyond its original intention. Anyone's career that is revolved around subtly manipulating others to do things that they originally wouldn't do or necessarily need is something I generally don't trust.
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Not in a medieval or fantasy scenario. But in modern day or future scenario. There the devs could litter the game world with ad screens and the like. Just imagine you are driving through the city and see all the adverts.
I'd have no tolerance for pop up windows / menu windows with ads and loading screens with ads, though.
I would even go so far to put an Intel CPU into my space ship. Just think about the battles! Linux vs Windows vs iOs.
You could then take it a step further and make special in game ads like "The battle of Xyz was won with the new Intel 1234. Now at an item printer near you"
It would depend on how intrusive the advertising would be, but without knowing at this point I'd be inclined to say probably not. Most You tube videos or news article videos that display an add first, I'll generally close the page rather than let the add play to watch the video.
There is far too much advertising in my face already and I'm against it.
Adverts are fine as long as they aren't pop up type that force you to watch it, i hate that type.
I interest in how they will put adverts in this kind of game ,
Something like Mcdonald's Tavern or Shell shield wasn't bad name , i find those kind of name are funny lol.
It would take a genius to do this right.
Hate to say that, but once one failed doctor of literature was an orator and propagandist. Once he made a leaflet - "the Emperor of the US speaks in Berlin!". Of course, US has no Emperor -never had- but it attracted attention and people actually read this leaflet. Goal was achieved (and emperor title was never again used by him).
That's the history. Now, up to games. It would take a long study, psychological and financial one, to introduce ads in non-intrusive manner. I recall one Russiant MMORPG. They introduced "City of the Masters" where the best non-cash shop shield could be crafted. But not before this town was liberated from hordes of enemies could players take advantage of this. Town was very nice-looking, all made from bricks, red flags with "M" letter ("Master") flying above each tower. And it became clear it was an add for one hosting company (would not mention its name so as not to advertise). That was sword-and-slash fantasy game...but the ad was not too intrusive.
However, it is difficult for me to imagine something like this in Western games. McTown? KFC-laser canon? Dell armor? Intel sword? Nokia battle cruiser? And what good ads are if no one clicks on them? Just impressions show? How to make it usefull and unintrusive? If you have medieval town where crafter sell crossbows and repair shields - how would McDOnalds look like?
The only thing I could think about is postapocalypse world. World, where some technology remained and players could pick Nokia or Googlephones, smart or non smart ones, maybe find somer preserved burger and drive that quality [insert name] car.
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I'd truly rather just pay a modest subscription and have no adverts, no cash shop, no "convenience" items... just a single payment that directly supports the game I enjoy playing in return for everything within that game.
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Would I? Yeah, I have no problem with ads as long as the publisher doesn't mind that I ignore them.
On the other side, such a game would still need a cash shop. The "pay to go faster" crowd couldn't deal with not having one.
Sure, I wouldn't mind. Most MMOs already have loading screens which are basically ads for the game anyway.
The least intrusive ones I've seen so far, on memory, are those for FFXI and FFXIVl; the first one is blank except for a 'loading' notice in the bottom right of the screen, while the second announces in grand text the name of the zone you are entering - and it even allows you to use your chatbox to talk to others while you wait with no interruption. Something like this latter feature would be a welcome bit of compensation for the ads if such a game ever existed.