The irony here is that I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not.

This about sums up this thread:

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“Rabid, you need to get yourself to a dictionary and learn how to spell. Only then might you deserve to be taken seriously.”

Well… Lets just face the truth here, both of you. Phil is NEVER wrong.

// OaMJ, 15 – Sweden

It’s nice to play a game and immerse yourself in a fictional world for a while without being beat over the head with real world advertisements that really have no place in the games universe.

I mean in a game that takes place in modern day (like a racing game for example) then the revelantingame advertising would make sense (although be no less offending on principle and info collection) but in a game like Hellgate? Um the worlds a pile of ruin and most corps are burned out blasted apart buildings so why the hell is Nivida and Darkhorse posters up all over the place? (let alone be changing them over time to tout new products)

It’d be nice to see something in the gaming enrioment relative to the game itself, such as maps of safe zone locations, recruitment posters for the templars, etc..

This kind of crap is just a thinly veiled attempt to make the company more $$$$ plain and simple.

Also on a side note, they DO charge for subscritoions (they have a free option but it’s quite limited) So ingame advertising PLUS paying a monthly fee PLUS having to buy the game???!

How greedy can these bastiches be?

I agree with Whisp, stuff like this is why piracy is on the rise and will continue to grow.

Also with the absolute zero customer support Hellgate is offering (check their offical forums you’ll see) the game isn’t worth the hassle even if they paid YOU to play it.

If the companies turn the games that the masses are flocking into the same ad-soaked mess people fled in the first place… they will leave again – I know I did, and I have not missed cable TV since we cancelled it 6 years ago. Same reason we stopped going to movies – the ads before them for 30 min just got to be absurd.

All those industries are failing – not because of the internet itself – but due to the internet offering entertainment, news, and information that has not been strangled to death in a mass of ads – although I do tend to avoid websites that chokethemselves to deathw ith advertisements too.

Make the web as bad as network TV, and people will move away from that medium as well – particularly when you introduce the advertisement factor into pay to play services.

Sorry, pass on this game – and my passing on it means the 60 people in our gaming group will most likely pass as well. Word of mouth is a great thing. Sorry Bill roper, you do great work, but… in game adds in a pay to play game?

Sorry sir. I think your games are generally good enough to be worth paying money for – if a sub and 60.00 at the shelf is not enough i’d pay more – like I said… Roper an the Schaeffer borthers do excellent work – but I won’t pay for EA ads. Sorry sirs.

Rabid, you need to get yourself to a dictionary and learn how to spell. Only then might you deserve to be taken seriously.

“Also it’s really awesome to compare in game advertising to slavery. Because you know… They are the same thing. Remember everyone if you see an add you’re entitled to reparations like the descendants of slaves.”

Oh come now, I wasn’t comparing in game advertising to slavery in any sense beyond the fact that it was widely accepted initially also, and if you’re either incapable of realising that, or if the only thing you can say about my post is that it lacked clarity to the point that an idiot can misinterpret it, then you’re on rather shaky ground.

to k7991, that is one way to look at it. though it may seem idiotic, it is also true that it is easier and faster to type that way. grammar and spelling is simply a way to express yourself. it is not related to actual ability. which side is idiotic is questionable.

If the video game industry wants to walk their products down the same dead-man’s path as newspapers, magazines, and network television, good luck to them – the greedy bastards can sink and drown just like those industries are right now. Every week, as more newspapers, magazines tank, and the T.V. raiting slump further and further, I can’t help but smile.

Count me out of this game.

Also it’s really awesome to compare in game advertising to slavery. Because you know… They are the same thing. Remember everyone if you see an add you’re entitled to reparations like the descendants of slaves.

And since when does that make something right or wrong?

Cheap manual labour in developing countries was a trend for a while, as was slavery. If you want to lay down and roll over, go ahead, I’ll stick right here with my ideals and my spine in tact though, thank you.

I’m not against the advertisements, it would in fact add to the immersion in the case of posters, billboards, or dropped flyers, but when a “Diet gun of cola”, or tracking ones actions are concerned, I have a problem, if a major production firm employed someone to follow you around all day after purchasing one of their products, so that they can better advertise to you in future, I think there’d be a problem.

You’re all retarded.

If you really hate the adverts that much, just unplug your internet and play single player. No one will think any less of you.

just my thoughts.