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LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
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CloseToo bad you can't have product placement in historical or high fantasy settings.
Well, I mean, you can, but only if your game is a comedy.
I guess you could still do it in the form of game abstractions. The spell that steals MP from enemies could be called Shamwow instead of Absorb, or the farming minigame could be called Chia Garden instead of Mana Garden.
Instead of banners I wonder how well commercials would do in games? 15 second commercial after every fifth random battle. Hahaha... maybe that's terrible.
Well, I mean, you can, but only if your game is a comedy.
I guess you could still do it in the form of game abstractions. The spell that steals MP from enemies could be called Shamwow instead of Absorb, or the farming minigame could be called Chia Garden instead of Mana Garden.
Instead of banners I wonder how well commercials would do in games? 15 second commercial after every fifth random battle. Hahaha... maybe that's terrible.
Dyhalto
You get a cookie if you can spot the advertising in this game.
this is why america is fat, such low expectations
Dyhalto
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Too bad you can't have product placement in historical or high fantasy settings.
Historically, you could advertise for the Hudson Bay Company or Oettinger Beer.
Whether they'd pay for it, different story.
High fantasy, you could have your airship "Made by Bombardier", your weapons "Made by Haliburton", or other soft adverts like that. They might be surprisingly effective too, since details like that tend to stick.
'Eww, it stinks. Throw it over. No, don't do that!'
Two side notes:
First, I'm fairly certain there's an MMO shooter that does have advertisements on in-game billboards. (I forget what it's called, but it's a cops-and-robbers sort of deal.) I've heard it works pretty well.
Second, references to real-life companies can work even if they're not product placement, so they might be able to work as product placement. (For instance, a lot of the weapons in Far Cry 2 are marked as having been made by Precision Armaments, a real company with a reputation for selling knock-offs of other companies' weapons. I'm fairly certain PA didn't pay any money for that, but it's a nice touch.)
First, I'm fairly certain there's an MMO shooter that does have advertisements on in-game billboards. (I forget what it's called, but it's a cops-and-robbers sort of deal.) I've heard it works pretty well.
Second, references to real-life companies can work even if they're not product placement, so they might be able to work as product placement. (For instance, a lot of the weapons in Far Cry 2 are marked as having been made by Precision Armaments, a real company with a reputation for selling knock-offs of other companies' weapons. I'm fairly certain PA didn't pay any money for that, but it's a nice touch.)
Murmillo
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author=Dyhalto
You get a cookie if you can spot the advertising in this game.
I just realized that there is no period after the "C" in Mc Kids. Why would there even be one in AFTER the "M"!?
On the subject, I think if the advertising served a purpose to the story (like a... NASCAR RPG?). But if the fallout series wanted to get Coke Cola to be the sponsor, considering the characters already drink "Nuka Cola", that would be fine with me. It fits into the world in a quirky way.
Or if it was in a modern day setting, I could see it. We have billboards everywhere. It would be almost expected! But in a fantasy world? Pwshaw! Get it out of there!
i would have them in the game for something else that exists in the game. but i abhor advertising in any real life form. the idea that people are actually paid to reduce something as complex as human thinking, and human behavior down to numbers is insulting to me. just because i fall within some 'demographic' doesn't mean i want to see the same stupid as hell commercials for things i already know exist over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.
i think advertising of existing products should be limited to one year after their initial release. nobody doesn't already know that taco bell exists, and if somebody already isn't scared into buying a life alert system the first time they see it advertised, they're sure as hell not going to be convinced the second time they see it.
after a year, advertisement of an existing product/company/or service should be illegal. it's annoying, and it serves no purpose other than to shift money around. if something was a good product/service/company, it wouldn't need to be advertised because we would all know how great it is. if something isn't good enough to stand on its own legs after a year, it shouldn't exist.
i think advertising of existing products should be limited to one year after their initial release. nobody doesn't already know that taco bell exists, and if somebody already isn't scared into buying a life alert system the first time they see it advertised, they're sure as hell not going to be convinced the second time they see it.
after a year, advertisement of an existing product/company/or service should be illegal. it's annoying, and it serves no purpose other than to shift money around. if something was a good product/service/company, it wouldn't need to be advertised because we would all know how great it is. if something isn't good enough to stand on its own legs after a year, it shouldn't exist.
