In-game advertisements are becoming more and more prevalent. The question is, how much is too much? and should in-game advertisements really even matter to gamers?
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From my point of view no. If someone picks up a can of Pepsi in a game, I'm not going to be paying attention to it. I think that if the revenue from advertising these products is going toward the developers and not the publishers then fair enough.
"In Game Advertising: Is It Too Much?"
- Yes it is too much.
If we gamers were getting a decent discount when buying the game brand new then it might not be too much of a deal, but because some gamers buy games at the full msrp they should not have to deal with advertising. It is like paying someone for the opportunity to watch commercials, which is absolutely ridiculous imo.
Non-gaming companies pay money to video game publishers for in-game advertising, why shouldn't the developer and gaming consumer also benefit from that if the publisher is. After all publishers usually make multiple times over of the original amount of money that they invest in each game.
Most publishers pay most of their employees bare minimum going rate in their chosen profession and expect them to work long hour days to reach the unreasonable deadlines that they impose on the developer due to corporate greed! And that is one of the main reasons why this video game generation is suffering mostly when it comes to new innovative ip's. Though there are a few publishers that have been bringing out great new innovative ip's that are of good quality, thus those few major companies are the exception to what I just said.
Still, Imo corporate greed will probably be the main cause of the next video game crash if it ever happens because most companies now a days mostly take the the safe route/bet and that hinders industry growth. It happened and was the major cause of the video game crash of 1983, so it could still happen today. Why don't some companies ever learn from history before it is too late.
What makes you think I don't like being advertised to buy more games? The super smash bros series is a good example of in game advertising. Without Smash Bros, I wouldn't have gotten into Zelda, Metroid, FZero, Earthbound, etc.
I like being advertised "in game."
Nintendo, please take my money because you DESERVE it.