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Been reading the posts off the official boards on the potential for
real-world advertising in our CITY OF HEROES game.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=2499897&page=&view=&
sb=5&o=&fpart=all&vc=1
Read a lot of wisdom.
The best comments were, "I want a /noadverts toggle to kill the all too
intrusive deluge of unwanted advertisements." and "I expect real world ads
because it increases the immersion factor." and "Introduce real-world ads
into the game and Cryptic & NC-SOFT no will longer control their own game,
but the often irrational whims of the advertisers will." and "I don't want
it to interfere with my gameplay and be obnoxious advertisements."
The longest and most comprehensive posts are by "Fusion_Pope" in this
thread and many worthwhile advertising truths are to found in those posts.
In them Fusion_Pope notes that advertising ALREADY is so intrusive and
oppressively invasive that we, as a culture, have grown comfortably used to
ignoring the ads in the same way that cows ignore the farmer. Much like
abused submissive wives our nation has culturally allowed itself to be
beaten into helpless cowardice while some ranting psycho ponders a new
manner in which to inflict agony upon us. A measure of this optical and
auditory pollution is easily measured by how many steps one can walk
outdoors without being assaulted by a sign, billboard, or rolling vehicle
with an advertisement glaring from all visible sides.
Ah well. Life goes on and sheep exist to be shorn of their wool and
consumed when their wool production is no longer satisfactory. Humans are
just merely one of the many exploitable resources of this world.
Been reading the posts off the official boards on the potential for
real-world advertising in our CITY OF HEROES game.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=2499897&page=&view=&
sb=5&o=&fpart=all&vc=1
Read a lot of wisdom.
The best comments were, "I want a /noadverts toggle to kill the all too
intrusive deluge of unwanted advertisements." and "I expect real world ads
because it increases the immersion factor." and "Introduce real-world ads
into the game and Cryptic & NC-SOFT no will longer control their own game,
but the often irrational whims of the advertisers will." and "I don't want
it to interfere with my gameplay and be obnoxious advertisements."
The longest and most comprehensive posts are by "Fusion_Pope" in this
thread and many worthwhile advertising truths are to found in those posts.
In them Fusion_Pope notes that advertising ALREADY is so intrusive and
oppressively invasive that we, as a culture, have grown comfortably used to
ignoring the ads in the same way that cows ignore the farmer. Much like
abused submissive wives our nation has culturally allowed itself to be
beaten into helpless cowardice while some ranting psycho ponders a new
manner in which to inflict agony upon us. A measure of this optical and
auditory pollution is easily measured by how many steps one can walk
outdoors without being assaulted by a sign, billboard, or rolling vehicle
with an advertisement glaring from all visible sides.
Ah well. Life goes on and sheep exist to be shorn of their wool and
consumed when their wool production is no longer satisfactory. Humans are
just merely one of the many exploitable resources of this world.
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