Game ads in real time
Real as in streaming advertisements piped dynamically to games like EA’s forthcoming Madden 2008, NASCAR 2008, Tiger Woods PGA Tour 2008, NHL Hockey 2008, and Skate. An extension of Microsoft’s game ad company Massive Inc. (purchased by the Redmond software leviathan last year for $200 million), the new EA/Microsoft deal will allow advertisers to feed changeable ads live to virtual billboards or other promotional in-game constructs. Goodbye static, built-in, quickly outmoded huckstering, hello voguish virtual real estate with advertising space for sale by the hour, day, week, etc.
It’s working by tracking the number of seconds players have seen an ad, and then switch it every 10 seconds. 10 seconds of ads view in a game would cost 10$, to be view by millions of players around the globe. Yeah, it’s more advertisements (and who needs those?), but it will also make car-driving video games much more “life like”, when you’re driving through town and the billboards are advertising things that are actually relevant, or at least produced in this decade.
“We’re thrilled to be EA’s trusted partner for dynamic in-game advertising for these products,” said Cory Van Arsdale, Massive Inc. CEO. “The addition of EA’s leading titles to our network represents a tremendous opportunity for brands targeting the youth demographic and sends a clear message that in-game advertising has arrived as a compelling medium for marketers,” he added.
Yankee Group estimates indicate around $26 million was spent in 2006 on dynamic in-game advertising, with the number expected to rise up to $100 million before the end of the year – and up to $650 million within three years.
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IF done right, this will not be bad at all.
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That means the game will be cheaper to buy, right?
*snort* Of course not….
So are games free now?
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so this will make our games cheaper right, i mean, you’re going to sell space in the games that we buy?
way to go money hoggin corporate f**kwads!
Make next gen games more expensive AND I have to deal with real-time adds?
No thanks, I’ll pass.
fu ea.
This will be real fun in 10 years. They’ll turn off the ad servers and we’ll be left with error messages instead
The purpose is to create more money for over priced games? Ea has merged with Microsoft. I thought EA couldnt get any worse, why partner with Microsoft.
Look for news bugs and errors when I use peer guardian to block those ads. If I cant play a single player football game without being connected to show advetisements, I will burn my EA madden 2008 dvd and send it back to ea.
I hope others protest the bullshit these idiot amature software devlopers put out for us to buy.
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Hell, I work in advertising and I still don’t think this is right. Leave gaming alone! Leave it pure, unfettered by such garbage!
Still, if it does come to this, no doubt there’ll be blockers created. I’m sure the ad-blocking software companies are salivating at the prospect of new income streams.
I lament that we’ll be able to say lines like “hey, remember when gaming was ad-free?”
– Scapes
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There’s no excuse for advertising in gaming.
None. Zero. Nada. Zilch.
Any game that features advertising should *instantly* be banned.
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wow
how lame
unless they make it so
with ads:$20
without ads: $50
this is bologna
otherwise i forsee software to simply block the IP of the uploading server
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I agree. Games should be cheaper now. On the flipside though, it’s still going to make the games more life like. I guess you can’t have everything.