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Well played, advertiser. Well played.

BrandX

By BrandX,
Posted on: 2011-07-31 08:40 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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Originally Posted by Oedipus_Tex View Post
The ad is excellent. Who is the player who created it?
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You know, I had in game ads turned on, and never saw one.

I even went to one where a SG friend was looking at one, and I didn't see it at all.

I saw one of the shoe ads in-game; after that, I turned the in-game ads off.

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Ive run across the Cap'n Kraken billboard in IP and thought it was one of the cutest things ever.

Just looked through the contest winners and thought the Kinetic energy drink ad was pretty clever also.

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Originally Posted by SpyralPegacyon View Post
My tank is off to see Detective Westbrush, so I'm cruisin' Skyway City and what do I see on my way there:



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You know, I had in game ads turned on, and never saw one.

I even went to one where a SG friend was looking at one, and I didn't see it at all.
IIRC, wasnt it region encoded? So if you were in the UK you wouldnt see them no matter what? Something like that.

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The devs should sell a clanket as a real world item. Have a version for the major groups. Im sure people would buy them.
I would, given the funds to do so and the opportunity to use those funds to do so.

Hell, I've demonstrated my willingness to shell out cash for shinies (fancy stuff based on stuff, not clickables in missions ) already, just bought a Homestuck shirt. And I like CoH more than I like HS (by a slim margin, HS is a pretty awesome webcomic), so there ya go.

 

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How much do I like the contest billboards? Thiiiiiiiiiis much.

I never saw the real world advertising in game either, but if it was region locked, that may be because I'm canadian and no one wants our filthy beaver fur. Money. I meant money.

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Originally Posted by Redbone View Post
Yep. It was a big fear of a not inconsiderable segment of the playerbase when ads were announced. The idea of "Coke Inspirations," "Walmart End Redux IOs" and "MacBook Emotes" (all examples used by players at the time) were roundly bagged on to the point of reducing the whole idea to absurd levels and the consequences of having a persistant "Ad Item" when the promotional period ended (or worse, the client-game relationship went south) was brought up as well.
As I recall, there were fears that the revenue from the ads would be so great that the advertisers would start dictating ingame content. "Guns are too violent, remove all the guns or we pull our ads" and next thing you know several powersets are gone.



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IIRC, wasnt it region encoded? So if you were in the UK you wouldnt see them no matter what? Something like that.
It was not only Region locked but server location locked.

So you had to be in the EU and on the EU server to see the EU adverts.

I saw the horrible, horrible Nike advert (the one that had not texturing applied to it and just looked like a really poor Jpeg slapped onto the billboards) in the EU and the only other one I saw before the adverts were pulled was this one:


Notice that unlike the original Nike advert this one actually has movie poster style texturing done on it to make it fit more into the game.

If it showed up in the Rogue Isles it had a layer of grime ontop of that as well, if it showed up in Boomtown it was all burned and you could barely make out what it was. It was a vast improvement on the original Nike advert that had none of that so always looked like a crappy Jpeg no matter where it turned up.

Shame the movie was meh at best and just plain rubbish at worst though...

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I felt the Doublefusion advertising system had promise but not enough effort from the original ads was done to make the successful. I wasn't around when the Nike advert was around but I felt they didn't take the ad seriously, maybe because it's 'just a videogame' or something like that. Thinking that a picture of a shoe would be enough for us to get it.

I personally would like to see Doublefusion rebooted, probably with a few adjustments to bring things up to date and then have quality guidelines to ensure that ads that go into the game are actually to the standard that most ads you'd see on billboards.

And if you don't like the ads regardless, we still have that 'hide ads' option don't we?

Since CoH:Freedom is coming soon(tm), they could even add a small incentive for keeping ads unhidden, like a small stipend of paragon points per week for keeping them in view?


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