Zebulous.2934 Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 (edited) I am not asking if you would quit playing. I am not asking if you want in game ads. Lets pretend that all mmos will have in game ads in five years. What is tolerable ad placement? Example placement: small video windows added to menus. in a corner of the character selection screen. A small window added to the Trading post, so that a video plays as you browse the listings. (add is muted unless you adjust it's volume) Ads could play before the gates open in PvP. It may even encourage people to ready up instead of waiting out the timer. They could also just add non-animated banners or slogans to menu screens. "do the dew" and such. a single wandering npc in each town that pitches advertisement slogans each time they pass a waypoint; they walk at normal speed, their route takes them past each waypoint in the city, and they only use local chat. festival firework consumables that create a sparkly slogan in the sky when used. Edited August 9, 2022 by Zebulous.2934 typo 5 40 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yoni.7015 Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 (edited) A short advertisement break every 10 minutes, no matter where you are or what you are doing. I am sure it will be a lot of fun in raids or WvW Zerg fights. Lets just hope that there won’t be any ads in game, would be terrible and a reason for me to stop playing. Edited August 8, 2022 by yoni.7015 7 4 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zok.4956 Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 1 minute ago, Zebulous.2934 said: What is tolerable add placement? There is none. 1 minute ago, Zebulous.2934 said: Lets pretend that all mmos will have in game adds in five years. Why? I rather would like to pretend that all mmos will be free and without microtransactions in five years 15 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hashberry.4510 Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 Was hoping for moar trash mobs … 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farohna.6247 Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 Why would there be ads in a game I paid for? It's not a free game on a smartphone, also where the ads are wildly invasive and annoying. Bad enough there is a reminder on free accounts for expansions. 13 minutes ago, Zebulous.2934 said: I am not asking if you would quit playing. Oh but that would really be an excellent reason to. Invasive, talk about immersion breaking...that disco ball of a guardian that ran by won't have a patch on a corporate sponsor ad. I pay for an ad free environment. The last thing I would want is to see that in Tyria. 19 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danikat.8537 Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 I remember when Neopets started adding adverts and product placement. Back then it was sort-of amusing that there was a virtual McDonalds you could take your pets to. (Although like all sensible neopians my pets lived mainly on free omlet and jelly.) Ignoring the fact that I think it's highly unlikely Anet would ever do this because of the inevitable negative backlash, and because they can probably make more money by keeping their own customers happy than selling advert space I think the least annoying places for me would be: On the launcher On the pop-up when you collect the login reward On the character select screen I never look at the news on the launcher and my other MMO already advertises cash shop items on the login reward window and I think sometimes on the character select screen and I quickly learned not to pay attention to them. (Which is a shame because I think sometimes there's also news about events in the game, but the first one to come up is always a cash shop advert so I just click the button to accept the reward and close it instead of reading it.) Videos in menus is an absolute no for me. It doesn't matter if they're out of the way and silent, for some reason the motion constantly draws my eye and makes it hard to focus on anything else nearby. I have both my phone and my PC set to only play gifs and videos when I click on them for the same reason. I don't care if it's selling me something or actually part of a conversation or whatever, it's the movement that annoys me. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomKitty.6520 Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 I'm going out on a limb here...For me, I've seen ad's in games before...but those were only in F2P games that I didn't purchase. And they were pretty tolerably placed for the most part in some of them. Here's the run down of where I've seen them: 1.) On the Launch Pad for the Game. Usually game related content ads here and usually games within the company of the game I'm playing. 2.) On the Character Select screen, either in banner form, or in a small window in a corner. Same as before. 3.) After Launch in a log-in window. 4.) In a Cash-Shop/Gem-Store/Special Currency Store. 5.) During initial load in to the game, and that's it. Those are basically the five instances I've really seen ads bug me during a game. Sometimes, they've been mixed together, like, I'll see #1 & #5 and that's it or I'll see #3 and #2 and that's it and I play my game to my heart's content. They're not a constant eye sore. They're not constantly flashing in my face, and they're almost always related to the company or game that I'm playing in the moment. Now...I'm not a fan of ads, I don't know of anyone who is...But...I do understand it is a way to generate revenue. So, I get it. If they can find a way to not annoy me with it...more the better. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southerncarl.2740 Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 22 minutes ago, Zebulous.2934 said: I am not asking if you would quit playing. I am not asking if you want in game adds. Lets pretend that all mmos will have in game adds in five years. What is tolerable add placement? Example placement: small video windows added to menus. in a corner of the character selection screen. A small window added to the Trading post, so that a video plays as you browse the listings. (add is muted unless you adjust it's volume) Adds could play before the gates open in PvP. It may even encourage people to ready up instead of waiting out the timer. They could also just add non-animated banners or slogans to menu screens. "do the dew" and such. a single wandering npc in each town that pitches advertisement slogans each time they pass a waypoint; they walk at normal speed, their route takes them past each waypoint in the city, and they only use local chat. festival firework consumables that create a sparkly slogan in the sky when used. The acceptable place is in the bin. Make good expansions and we'll buy them the game is monetized enough. 11 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kharmin.7683 Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 No. 11 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fueki.4753 Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 There is no least annoying place to place adds in the game. They strictly do not belong in the game. 14 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sobx.1758 Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 (edited) Why is this even a thread willingfully created by a player? Edited August 7, 2022 by Sobx.1758 17 3 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Southerncarl.2740 Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 1 minute ago, Sobx.1758 said: Why is this even a thread willingfully created by a player? haha its the arenanet ceo in disguise.... 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lottie.5370 Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 What is even the point of this thread? The only ads I'm OK with in-game, are the ones in the TP that basically advertise what's on sale/new (e.g. atm it's 25% off the inquest chair). Anything more is just unacceptable honestly. 5 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bunny.9834 Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 Do you work in marketing or something? The right place to put any ads is no where. They are absolutely annoying and ruins immersion. The last thing I wanna see is an NPC trying to sell me Febreeze. 13 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chyro.1462 Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 (edited) On billboards spread through the core tyria dungeons. Can make a nice little trailer with cam zooming through the dungeons and their varied environment with flashy billboards advertising Cola and Raid Shadow Legends and Raycons to show the sponsors 'look how well we advertise for you!' Oh, advertise some weed killer spray as backdrop to the fight against Faolain. .. meanwhile 90% of players can ignore them. 😄 Edited August 7, 2022 by Chyro.1462 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hashberry.4510 Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 Well the raid sellers can compete with each other inside now. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IAmNotMatthew.1058 Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 Anywhere as long as I can get an Adblocker here as well. 6 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mungozen.2379 Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 2 hours ago, Zebulous.2934 said: I am not asking if you would quit playing. I am not asking if you want in game adds. Lets pretend that all mmos will have in game adds in five years. What is tolerable add placement? But I would quit playing. If there were any deliberate advertising in a video game I was playing, I wouldn’t play it. When I play a video game I am making a choice how to spend my time. If a company were to subsidize their product with advertising for other companies, they are putting something in front of me that I don’t want to waste my time with. I already have and am using the product I want to use right now. I don’t own a TV, I don’t use social media, I use ad blockers on the web. When the product we enjoy is advertising to us, we become the commodity being sold, not the consumer. 8 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inculpatus cedo.9234 Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 Very confusing OP and title. A change to 'ads' from 'adds' (thought it was mob additions or add-ons) would be helpful. No suggestion where ads (advertisements) would be, as that would never happen, nor would I want to indicate to Devs/Management that I would be agreeable to such. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eekasqueak.7850 Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 Let's just add product placement in all future stories, Xunlai Jade becomes Amazon and we have a new minigame where we have to deliver packages before our bladder explodes. 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega.6801 Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 No. 4 4 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bladestrom.6425 Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 Only place to have such a thing would be in the loading screens, imo and not at the cost of slowing the loading screens down, and only if it was used to add more content, not increase profit margins. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrs Lana.2506 Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 Absolutely not in any case ever. I paid for the game already. 3 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zok.4956 Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 1 hour ago, Southerncarl.2740 said: haha its the arenanet ceo in disguise.... My first thought was: marketing intern. 😉 1 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voyant.1327 Posted August 7, 2022 Share Posted August 7, 2022 This is something that should never be encouraged lol. Any game that does this I have stopped playing. Loved playing NBA2k/Madden for example stopped playing once the ads came in game. I would much rather pay for a subscription then ads. (Its why so many streaming services offer an ad free plan for 5 bucks more.) If revenue is an issue there a multitude of ways for them to massively increase profits. One would be marketing in general externally. But definitely not a trend I'd like to see. So nowhere is my vote lol. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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