I was just playing the new Dirt game for Xbox 360 and something hit me. On some games (and it's usually the racing/sport titles) there are a shit load of adverts. Not a couple, but A LOT!!!! Advertising EVERYWHERE. Just look at the field in John Madden Football, or FIFA Soccer, or Dirt. It's really incredible to see the logos everywhere. So my question is this... why is the game so DAMN expensive? I mean aren't the companies getting a lot of money from the advertisers? Can they charge them an amount based on the number of games sold? Having a logo in a game such as Madden is MUCH better than a TV advertising. You can't switch off the television, change the channel, fast forward through the commercials... the logos are just there. And they are there day 1 as well as day 365, they don't go away.
So why don't the developers charge these companies a boatload of money for the advertising and sell the game for $5???? Since Madden and most of the sport series seem to have an update every year, that just makes it double painful.
To tell you the truth, if the game price were that low, I'd be okay for them to stick some logos in other titles too... Gears of War, Lost Planet, Oblivion, etc... you can signs, logos on the walls/floor/ceilings. It could be pretty suddle and not in-your-face.
So how about it? Let's start with the sports titles and see how that goes eh? Cheaper games means MANY more sold too!!! And the piracy would go away as well, imagine that!
So what are the chances??? hmmmmm....
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Personally, i have done something like this in a Map i created for UNREAL/Tac Ops (cattlemarket). it was a map of Fabric-the club, and we put "Flyers & posters" into the MAP.
It should be easier for Adverts to be Current in ONLINE games, like Everquest, ( ridiculous example!-imagine an advert hoarding between you and the Trolls) and Unreal Tournament.
These net games could easily substitute texture packs with the new Adverts loaded in already, Gmaes should be Free, considering that they all market something else, , like Joysticks, , consoles, sports wear, etc, , motor vehicles !
Great point tho!< why pay for games, or any software for that matter?
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