Would you mind Commercials in loading screens?
- Thread starter Flux
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Yes.
I have been known to remove publishers' branding and co-marketing intro videos from PC games.
That's right ! You'll be playing Coke or Burger King mini-games while waiting for the initial GTA loading.
Yes I would mind. Here is why:
15 second load time? => 30 second commercial.
35 second load time? => 60 second commercial or 2x 30 second commercials.
Nature of the beast. Why pay $60 for a game and then have to sit through advertising?!
Preferrably we either remove loadtime, or do stuff like old style games during load times OR what NBA Live did with a "sandbox" deal.
I love those
, games should definately have more of them.scooby_dooby
Legend
I absolutely despise paying to be shown advertisements, movie theatres, and cable tv both really bother me in this regard. I pay $100/month for TV, and 33% of that is advertising. That's why more and more, I download or record my TV in advance.
So ya, I would absolutely detest seeing commercials during load times. I'm not going to pay someone $60 so that they waste my time with advertisements I care nothing about.
So ya, I would absolutely detest seeing commercials during load times. I'm not going to pay someone $60 so that they waste my time with advertisements I care nothing about.
Those ads are helping pay for your channels, I don't think you'd want to pay the real price for them. As for ads during loading screens for games, I don't know how well that would work out since different machines can transfer data at different rates unless it was a console and it had very fixed loading times. The only way for it would be acceptable is if the commercial could NOT prevent the game from loading all the way until it was finished.
ShootMyMonkey
Veteran
You do realize, of course, that without that, you'd be paying over $300 a month, right (well, not exactly, since what you're actually paying for is the service, but you kind of get what I mean)? I despise commercials as much as the next person, but I'd rather suffer that than not get anything at all for my money. So I watch an episode of House and wait through 20 minutes of commercials... at least House is there for me to watch rather than never being there for anybody to watch.
If the game is worth it either way, then that's all that matters. If I was waiting through commercials during the load of a level of something like Gundam : Crossfire, then that would be more than crossing the line where something is unacceptable. (i.e. is it worth the price of admission?)
Which of course, is an absolute impossibility and always will be. I don't care if you make something that's 200x faster than a hard drive, because people will always ask more of it than it can handle. Now if we start creating mechanisms which can bend time and create a field around the console such that all of its components are "outside" of time itself, then we can spend several hundred years loading and it will all pass in the blink of an eye in our existence.
Rainbow Man
Veteran
What, are yo nuts? I'm going to PAY to have ads slapped in my face for half a minute and have the loading time increased even longer (ad has to be loaded too)? That's insane, why would anyone want that?
I wouldn't accept it even if it meant a sticker price reduction - which it wouldn't anyway. Admoney would just go straight down the company's pocket to increase profits. Ads in games - particulary realtime updated ones - are the devil's invention.
Peace.
Rainbow Man
Veteran
If they didn't pay halfassed actors like jennifer aniston etc a million bucks apiece per friends episode, TV subscription rates wouldn't sit at $100/month + 33% advertising..
Peae.
It's a good topic but not fully fleshed out: the true question is "How willing are you to watch advertising in game if it reduces the cost of the game?"
The cost can be reduced significantly (as in a free game) to not at all. The amount of advertising can be anything such as a commercial during initial boot up, a static image during load, or full blown 30 second spots.
There's also product placement, which is already occurring (and occurs in almost every movie).
Anyway, I'm against commercials during load times because it acts as a disincentive for developers from optimizing them--for example, Gears of War doesn't have any noticeable load times; I would hate for that to change. But if a game such as Tony Hawk series or other sports games want to display static images in load screens and do product placement while giving me a cheaper game (by say, 20%), then I wouldn't mind at all.
However, I fully expect all advertising that occurs in games to be an additional revenue stream for the publishers. I highly doubt consumers will see any benefit here at all and would be curious if developers see any benefit as well.
I'm sorry, but that is far from the true question. The true question is "are you willing to continue to pay $60 for a game and now also have ads during load times and all over the place while playing?" because that's certainly where we are heading as shown by a number of games that already include ads. None of those games have reduced their price because of it, and I highly doubt the cost will be reduced in the future either. There is no sign of price reduction in mind from ads.
I thought that's what I said in the post, beyond the initial re-wording of the topic...
Fu3lFr3nzy
Regular
I prefer to not have any commercials or ads in the games I buy, but if theyre unavoidable and the game is good anyway, then I can care less and just ignore it.
