Now here's the fun part: once ads in games become popular enough, the crackers will step up to patch them out of games. Ever hear of Adblock for Firefox? There's a reason it's around most people use adblock just to disable spam and popups.. legit ads still make it through Nope. Adblock blocks whate...

gamecreator wrote:Now here's the fun part: once ads in games become popular enough, the crackers will step up to patch them out of games. Ever hear of Adblock for Firefox? There's a reason it's around

most people use adblock just to disable spam and popups.. legit ads still make it through

techie775 wrote:I can understand it if they give you a free or discounted game but paying 50 bucks for a game that keeps telling me to buy Coca-Cola doesn't sound interesting or worth my money.

agreed

Ads in games always pissed me off. It makes the the software companies seem like they'll do what ever they can for more money. well, i guess that's when you have to decide whether to approach video games as ART or as PRODUCT.. i'm pretty sure 99% of video games fit more appropriately into the latte...

Quest For Glory Fan wrote:redo 4 without bugs?.

there's a fan-made patch out there.. i'm sure the link has been posted on this board several times.. between that and dos-box, you can run QfG4 pretty much flawlessly on a modern computer.. i just played it through myself

remedied. anyway, point being, the Sprint ad didn't RUIN space quest..  it could've been handled better--but if that one little grievance meant a cheaper game for the consumer, i don't think there would've been much of an uproar.. (obviously we didn't really see the benefits of that particular produ...

jpnuar1 wrote:Hmm.... I don't think Moby Games likes direct linking to its images.

i don't know if the traffic on page 4 of some random thread on the AGD message board is gonna run Moby's servers into the ground..  but thanks for stepping in on their behalf!

njspannaus: That's actually a good idea.  Some huge companies like MySpace are entirely funded by using an advertising business model, and there's big money in product placement. I'm just not sure if advertisers would consider funding a game that way, though.  Also, it has some downfalls. Can you i...

i went from checking this site for updates weekly............. and then it became daily.............  and now i find myself checking back constantly

my perspective:  i'd like to play Al Emmo--but i simply haven't had the extra few bucks it'd take to buy it...  i haven't downloaded it, because i have too much respect for the team who made it.. so, count me as one more potential (but broke) fan.. i think in-game advertising should be considered.. ...