In game billboards

[Guardia]

Random thoughts... Anyone remember when Paragon Studios experimentally tried putting real-world advertisements in game?

 

I am guessing the experiment failed, because after the initial launch I stopped hearing anything about it.

 

I am wondering if the current servers could use the tech for something. Even just dynamic fake ads changing over time.

 

Hmm.

[Clave Dark 5]

It was mentioned at the time on the old forums that they could be used to advertise dev  choices in AE, which doesn't seem like a bad idea.  It was just forum talk though, nothing concrete.

[jubakumbi]

TBH, I always thought the best thing that could be done with them was/is to advertise real-life 'hero' charities.

Just give the links/info in a fun 'CoH' style, but have the real information, possibly even a slash command that takes you to donation sites.

IMO, this has a good chance to bring a lot of positive PR as well.

 

A group a gamers playing on servers that are run not-for-profit and generating traffic/revenue for real-life hero non-profits also sounds like something any company might think twice about 'attacking'.

 

Just my pennies.

[justicebeliever]

TBH, I always thought the best thing that could be done with them was/is to advertise real-life 'hero' charities.

Just give the links/info in a fun 'CoH' style, but have the real information, possibly even a slash command that takes you to donation sites.

IMO, this has a good chance to bring a lot of positive PR as well.

 

A group a gamers playing on servers that are run not-for-profit and generating traffic/revenue for real-life hero non-profits also sounds like something any company might think twice about 'attacking'.

 

Just my pennies.

 

+1 Inf - I really like this jubakumbi!

[craggy]

Finally looked through some of my old screenshots the other day and saw some of these. Poor Babylon AD. It wasn't that bad.

[Stan The Man]

You know, I was just thinking about this yesterday.  I imagine there would've been quite a good bit of revenue coming in from advertisements like that in-game.  I wonder why it never took off.

[Pixie_Knight]

I don't think they stopped it. But the in-game ads weren't exactly prominent. It was only a few of the billboards on each faction, and easy to miss them. Of course because these in-game ads weren't egregious and were easy to overlook, people forgot about them existing. Which in turn likely caused advertisers to decide it wasn't a good investment. As I recall, when the in-game ad billboards didn't have a paid sponsor, they would show an ad for a in-game business like City of Gyros and City of Vegans.

[Chuckers]

I think that advertising for "real hero organizations" is a great idea. I do love the ingame billboards and I get a chuckle out of them.

 

I am still looking for the billboard advertising "The Clanket" which is a Cape/Blanket combo take off on the Snuggie.

[wjrasmussen]

I don't want to see real world stuff like charities and organizations in this game.  Leaves a bad PC taste in my mouth.  Now, for a fun design competition, I am all for it.