Commercials on Guild Wars?

Hello people.
While reading an article on gaming in a local magazine (comparable to say... Time Magazine) I came across a paragraph which essentially contained the following:

Seeing as people are watching less television (according to an American study: down by 12% over the last year) and playing more games, companies are losing their TV advertisement base. This is furthered by digital television which allows users to skip commercials altogether. Therefore certain companies are becoming more and more interested in placing ads for their products in video games. In Belgium, a advertising bureau has even devoted itself entirely to this new industry.

Further, according to the article "gamers don't mind ads in their games". I don't, but of course I'm not the entire gaming community.

Already the Korean servers have met a company other that ANet doing promotions on GW (the unique "Coca Cola" items)


Do we want other companies in our game? Advertisements all over the place? Billboards in Lion's Arch showing a team in HoH and a can of Coke saying: "Real champions drink Coca Cola" or some such platitude?

Companies already do ads in games and POSTING THE SAME THREAD THREE TIMES WON'T MAKE IT ANY MORE IMPORTANT.

Deadlyjunk - remove your finger from the damn mouse and stop posting this OVER and OVER. Give it a few minutes.

Once we see it in a few mmo i think it'll spread. I'm pretty sure WoW was advertising Pizza Hut or something at some point lol.
Maybe we'll see an ingame "KFC" someday. And play mini-games where we collect buckets of chicken for Colonel Sanders to gain titles like "Greedy Bastard". Ya never know.

Ok, I'm very sorry about the triple or quadruple posting but my guru is taking like... forever to load. And I had a few couldn't complete operations messages, so never knew if it was getting through. My apologies to the mods...

LOL I know, while you have been having trouble seeing if you posted, I've been having trouble deleting your multiples.. sorry for the snappiness, but after 7 (seven!!) threads, and also getting errors, I'm a bit testy.

Hopefully it won't be like NFS:U2, because there's best buy and other stores all over the streets... and there not exactly discrete,

this was posted about ~8 months ago, gaile said there wouldn't ever be any sort of billboard like ads in gw, mainly 'cause.. some joke about ascalon and an ad for some electronic device and how it's all old land walk around with yaks pulling carts and yurrrr.. not gunna happen in gw, and no I don't want it to happen.

That is because TV has been going down the hill over the last 2 years.There is no Variety on sequels.

i actualy think its a great idea.... u can have ads come up on the load screen and have bilboards an such...
y? then ANET would get money and could finally aford beter servers that would eliminate err7s cmon anet is givin us a game for free (minus 50$$) unlike other mmos that charge gw is free so y cant anet make sum $ w/ ads?

psh as long as it doesnt pop up while im in a battle i can care less if i c a billboard w/ warmachine holding up coke

If this happens I'm through w/ GW for sure.

http://www.massiveincorporated.com/s...k/partners.htm

Guess where they are partnering with?


Oh, and um,I know the advertising business in Belgium, don't know such a company :/

Company name: Red and Ivory "advanced gamevertising solutions"

And how. With seasons of shows having 7 new shows per season if we are lucky, then it's reruns... or reality TV. ugh. I stopped watching TV about three years ago completely. Other than the news or the weather and the DVDs I get, not a thing on TV but junk.

Comercials in games, simply dumb. If a product is good and I have need for it, i will seek it out. Similar to those fools that insist on selling in All Chat. If we need something, we will seek it out. No need for Spam or comercials. hehe

@ Yanman.be (I gotta tease) - were you on bean cake when you snapped that avatar pic? - jk

edit: can't spell

They should totally put a McDonalds in Ascalon, Temple of the Ages, Droks and Kaineng. It would be fun, a gold-sink and promote McDonalds. Kaineng would look cool with the big advertising screens like Times Square and Hong Kong. Wouldn't bother me one bit if it would maintain the good service ArenaNet provides.

woah, there are Coca-Cola GW items? o.O

i never knew this.

Checked their site, http://www.redandivory.be/site.html ....they just started...won't be a big company IMO.

Yeah CokePlay items onlt provided to Korean Pre-order packages (i think).

You mean the "Fat Bastard" title, I think...

I think this sort of strategy could easily backfire on the sponsor. A bunch of jerks running around with your collectible items greifing everyone in sight is not likely to help sales.

This already exists in Anarchy Online, and it's really annoying.

I certainly hope this never comes to be.