Terrorists take over Alienware

[CptStern]

..no I dont mean dell (although the discription is kinda appropriate) but rather a game where terrorists have inflitrated Alienware and it's your job to stop them

Free FPS game with Ads

The CEO of Vancouver company Threewave, famous for creating Capture The Flag, has been explaining their current project — multiple versions of a free, ad-supported FPS: 'We'd like to provide sponsored content that also supports the brand of the FPS, allowing it to have a whole stream of maps that are available month after month, featuring different product placement each time. Maybe in a Jeep-Chrysler level you'll be able to drive their vehicles. Maybe a Pepsi branded level where you jump through a Pepsi logo to materialise somewhere else.'

Where we (Threewave software) fit into that picture is not so much creating the content and then placing an ad in it, but by creating the content around a brand. For example, one of the projects that we completed recently (though it’s not announced yet) features terrorists taking over the Alienware computer factory.

http://gamasutra.com/features/20060914/kumar_01.shtml


I'd have no problem playing a game that's ad supported if it was free ...I mean you cant expect something for nothing (/me glares at EA, specifically Battlefierld 2142)

 

[Kangy]

Hehe, it's particularly accurate now that those Dell batteries got banned from some airlines due to ... explosion risk :O

TERRISTS IN MA ALIENWARES

 

[Fliko]

Hehe, it's particularly accurate now that those SONY batteries got banned from some airlines due to ... explosion risk :O

TERRISTS IN MA ALIENWARES

Fixed

 

[phantomdesign]

Wait . . . . . is Alienware owned by Dell?

 

[Xune]

Not just owned, they're wftpwned.

As for ads in games, why not, there's adverts in every other aspect of life. Just don't make the product the centre around which the entire game revolves.

 

[boglito]

Ad-funded games are ok as long as the ads are suitably discreet and the game actually is good. One excellent example is trackmania nations which is a pretty awesome racing-game funded by pepsi.

Especially MP-games benefit from being free since the biggest problem for mp-games these days is attracting a big enough crowd to have a decent community going.

.bog.

 

[CptStern]

Not just owned, they're wftpwned.

As for ads in games, why not, there's adverts in every other aspect of life. Just don't make the product the centre around which the entire game revolves.

which in this case they are

Where we fit into that picture is not so much creating the content and then placing an ad in it, but by creating the content around a brand. For example, one of the projects that we completed recently (though it’s not announced yet) features terrorists taking over the Alienware computer factory.


We’d like to provide sponsored content that also supports the brand of the FPS, allowing it to have a whole stream of maps that are available month after month, featuring different product placement each time. Maybe in a Jeep-Chrysler level you’ll be able to drive their vehicles. Maybe a Pepsi branded level where you jump through a Pepsi logo to materialise somewhere else.

 

[smwScott]

Free ad-supported games are great. Watching a 2 minute advertisement for Dodge Ram in the $50 EA game you just bought (Fight Night) is not great. That's the kind of thing that makes me not buy games, and if anything it makes me less likely to buy the products that are advertising in them.

 

[Polaris]

Btw in fourth season of TV show 24, main willian - arabian terrorist Habib Marwan using Alienware notebook to launch a nuclear missile against LA.

 

[VictimOfScience]

Fake ads in games? Wonderful and usually very creative and funny.

Real ads in games? Awful, tasteless, and transparent.

And does anyone really care if terrorists take over the Alienware plant? Snoozefest imho....

 

[smwScott]

That does raise a good point. The stakes aren't very high...

"You failed, the mission is over, everyone at Alienware has been killed."
"Ah well, **** it, I'm gonna go play HL2. Those computers are overpriced anyway."

 

[Ridge]

I see no problem in ads in games, if it lessens the price/makes it free.

Im no going to dump $40-50 on a game like BF2142, which will have ads in them, where the companies will make small fortunes from both the advertising and the sales, and the community get diddly.

Meh, whatever, BF2 is my last EA game, anyway....

 

[Asuka]

I dont mind ads as long as they are practicle.

 

[63]

I don't mind ads as long as they don't detract from gameplay.

Let's hope 3Wave can do better than Kuma...

 

[MultiVaC]

Al Queda mission briefing:

Big news from Osama, guys! We're going to take over a factory that makes overpriced computers. So the Americans will have to buy their PCs from another company. THAT WILL SHOW THEM!