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Originally Posted by Postagulous
I thought 100m per week was too low. We don't want anyone to be able to do this. With it as low as 100m, I could take one out every other week if I was marketing at the time. I would only take 5b to take over a billboard for a year.
Prices should be high so that either heavy marketers can afford it or groups of people would take them out. Topics would have to be related to the game. No McD ads. Advertizing a AE# or Tanker Tuesday or Demonic Blood Sample is not Worth Over 1k!!! Bid 666 for a Better Tomorrow. And, as far as pricing...Location location location. One week in Atlas is worth nearly a whole year in Faultline. Probably over a few months in Galaxy [which should be nuked in a future storyline]. Yeah, I'd like rented billboards. But not animated. I'd see if I could get a Katana club up. |
Take a leaf out of Googles book and do it like Adwords, let people get into Inf bidding wars over them.
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Originally Posted by Carnifax_NA
Take a leaf out of Googles book and do it like Adwords, let people get into Inf bidding wars over them.
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The billboards bring in real cash money to NCSoft, or at least that was the original plan. I doubt they would give that up (if there really is anything coming in) just to let players advertise stuff. @Top_Doc As to spending huge amounts of Inf on sinks that have no in-game benefit, sure there are some people who will do it. But people like me would just laugh at that and keep buying expensive IOs. |
From a marketing perspective, this change would make the realworld ads more valuable as we the players would be more likely to pay attention to banners if some of them have an impact on the game. Although I doubt this willl translate into enough of a difference they raise their real-world ad rates over it.
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Another idea: you know the mannequins in front of Icon, and inside? The current Doppelganger tech might allow for them to be replaced by anyone's costume on demand. We could have bidding wars on that; it'd be hilarious having a chicken model at the entrance of Icon, though.
Edit: in another vain... why not pay to have a doppleganger of your character PATROL a zone? I pay 2 billion inf and a Doctor Leo elite boss runs around Sharkhead for a week.
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To remove the most amount of cash by using the billboards, they should be bid on, individually. From May 31st to June 6th, bids are collected for the period June 7th - June 13th. To prevent someone from winning a billboard at the last minute by adding a few influence, the "next bid price" would have to increase based on how much it currently costs: a billboard that's currently at 10 million inf would have its "next bid" set to 20 million, but a billboard that's currently at 1 billion would would have its "next bid" set to 1.5 billion.
I have no doubt that the billboards near Atlas Park would reach two billion influence, especially during double XP weekends; but with that same cash you could bid on a lot of billboards that are placed in less popular areas, yet still get a lot of traffic. For example:
You see that billboard every time you jump from WW to the University in Steel to do some crafting, or when you go to WW from anywhere north in the zone. I'd drop 100 million inf each for those puppies in a heartbeat.
This Vanguard billboard next to Icon in Steel. While I don't play with costumes much, there's ALWAYS a bunch of people in Icon, no matter time of the day. I took this picture at 7AM EST an there were six people inside Icon. I'd drop 50 to 100 million in this one, too.
To keep the art quality consistent, we should get a bunch of premade backgrounds and just be able to add text and an emblem on top of them. That way CS only has to worry about the text being inappropiate, which can be checked quickly.
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