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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 45810

Electronic Arts today issued two separate press releases (#1,
#2), each announcing plans to insert advertisements into video games, as EA has signed deals with IGA and Massive for in-game ads. Interestingly, one of the titles to get this treatment will be Battlefield 2142. Financial terms behind the deals anno

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yhancik · Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:53 pm Post subject:

fine, do we get a 15€ discount for it ?

Safer · Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 9:59 pm Post subject:

*runs along a snow dune and stops in awe of a titan before seeing how it flares up in neon a large sign saying: "GET YOUR COLLEGE DIPLOMAS HERE!!!!!!1111 PENIS ENLARGEMENTS!!!!"

How about the term: GAMEBREAKING?

And yeah - I'm not gonna pay full price for something that rips out fracking ads to me ingame.

nb411 · Elite Member Joined: 15 Jul 2005 Posts: 497

If someone was going to be first to implement advertising in game on a large scale it was going to be EA. No suprises here.

Last time I paid full price for an EA game, I dunked my head repeatedly in the toilet and held my breath as long as possible till almost passing out to punish myself. I'm having flashbacks about that bowl right now just contemplating an EA product.

djRom · Posted: Fri Sep 01, 2006 8:42 pm Post subject:

I guess the chances of EA doing the right thing (like Sierra or whoever made the call in the first place did) are slim to nill. I am refering to Swat 4 after it debuted, it started to include in game ads, posters the on the walls, and thats right around the time when they dropped the game down in price. I think you can pick up the game for like 20$ now... And Swat 4 Gold is 30$ with the expansion pack. And Swat 4 is a great game, actually one of the few games I play on a semi-regular basis with friends at my house! Smile

xxxx · Posted: Sat Sep 02, 2006 4:11 am Post subject:

totally agree with all the comments. If they are gonna put crap ads in the game the price should drop. SWAT 4 is more of a modern game so the ads sometimes could go unnoticed. Can you imagine the ads, like the penis extensions joke or things like condom ads or tampon commercials or hemeroids... gawdd!!! shoot me now!

devilhood · Posted: Sun Sep 03, 2006 2:41 pm Post subject:

If they put ad's in games to make them more realistic, then I'll agree with that, which was the main concept in the first place anyways, but now it's seemed to have turned into "oh let's smack a billboard in the middle of the gorgeous bridge, and put a floating billboard on that gorgeous lake."
Useless.