Don't You Hate Ads In Games?

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Don't You Hate Ads In Games?

Tue Oct 16, 2007 5:33:50 AM #42814 Perm Link

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There's nothing better than blowing up aliens in the year 2152 and seeing an ad for Coke or Pepsi. <a href="http://www.news.com/2009-1024_3-6213661.html">That doesn't stop game producers from adding them into an ALREADY PAID FOR PRODUCT</a>. If I pay for your software, DON'T PUT ADS IN IT. Now the industry wants to regulate the ads for kids... losers all around.

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Executives at these businesses, and their investors, agree that virtual worlds are engaging enough to children to provide an unprecedented opportunity for marketing. But in a nascent industry with relatively no standards for advertising, media watchdogs, educators and even some gamemakers are worried. "This kind of marketing is designed to operate at a subconscious level. And kids don't know how to think critically about how someone's trying to get them to be loyal to a brand or buy their products," said Kathryn Montgomery, a professor in the School of Communication at American University and author of Generation Digital: Politics, Commerce and Childhood in the Age of the Internet.

I have the solution... Don't show ads in games.

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