City of Heroes gets optional adverts - bit-tech.net Forums

CardJoe · 4th Apr 2008, 09:42

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/04...onal_adverts/1

Superhero MMO City of Heroes is to have optional adverts littered throughout according to a statement from NCSoft.

UncertainGod · 4th Apr 2008, 09:58

If they offered a discount to the subscription for in game billboard adverts I'd be happy as long as everyone was seeing the same advert in the same place at the same time to avoid confusion.

Then again I finished my love affair with CoH ages ago, now I'm just waiting for Champions Online.

DarkReaper · 4th Apr 2008, 13:24

CoH is a game where ads could slip in quite neatly, so I don't see any problems really.

Bladestorm · 4th Apr 2008, 14:13

There have always been billboards around the game with a small number of fake adverts on them, swapping them out for more variable real ones would fit well as long as they were tastefully done (ideally made specially to be in keeping with the style of the CoH world)

Neogumbercules · 4th Apr 2008, 15:34

Quote:

...to fund a future game...

The Cape Radio internet radio interview last night with Brian Clayton, Matt Miller (lead dev) and Lighthouse(community manager) revealed that almost, if not all, of the revenue from the ads will go straight back into the development bank for CoH. The reason given for this being NCNorCal is doubling it's dev team for City of*.

themax · 4th Apr 2008, 15:42

I see no problem because the Ads are optional. They aren't forced on the users at all, and in a game like City of Heroes set in a fictional city in the real world United States, it's not too out of place to have the ads. There are billboards, and posters throughout the entire game so something of a real advert to me in that game isn't bad at all in my eyes. It's not like seeing a Coke Billboard is going to totally kill the immersion. The characters exist in the United States with ties to real world organizations anyway.

Mister_X · 7th Apr 2008, 09:52

I have no problem with this approach, its all pretty unobtrusive and giving you the opt out is a nice gesture to the community.

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DarkReaper Alignment: Sarcastic Good Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Belfast, NI Posts: 1,750	CoH is a game where ads could slip in quite neatly, so I don't see any problems really. __________________ Yeah, God could have created the Earth 6000 years ago with less than a blink, and set out all the evidence to the contrary just to confuse us. Personally I think that blowing up an entire universe on a timescale of billions of years to create the specific people He wanted has far more style

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Bladestorm Hypermodder Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: United Kingdom Posts: 682	There have always been billboards around the game with a small number of fake adverts on them, swapping them out for more variable real ones would fit well as long as they were tastefully done (ideally made specially to be in keeping with the style of the CoH world) __________________ Athlon 64 X2 3800+ @ 250x10 (1.475v) \| EVGA GTX 260 55nm SSC \| A8N-SLI Premium \| 2x(4GB) Corsair Twinx2048-PC3200C2 \| Asus Xonar DX \| Antec truepower 550w \| Akasa Eclipse-62 DDC12VPlus1, DD TDX, 3/8 tygon r3603 tubing, PA120.2, DD double floppy bay res

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themax Hypermodder Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Tampa, FL Posts: 925	I see no problem because the Ads are optional. They aren't forced on the users at all, and in a game like City of Heroes set in a fictional city in the real world United States, it's not too out of place to have the ads. There are billboards, and posters throughout the entire game so something of a real advert to me in that game isn't bad at all in my eyes. It's not like seeing a Coke Billboard is going to totally kill the immersion. The characters exist in the United States with ties to real world organizations anyway.

7th Apr 2008, 09:52	#7
Mister_X Chaotic Neutral Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Falkirk Posts: 113	I have no problem with this approach, its all pretty unobtrusive and giving you the opt out is a nice gesture to the community.