Comments on: Cut the shit! – Product placement in Video games?

By: Suesin

Suesin — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:24:46 +0000

>maybe even having the main character dress up to look like Ronald McFuckingDonald… Oh the awful thought!

I hate to be the one to tell you, but in Japan Dragon Quest IX had a special set up with McDonald’s where you could download an exclusive red (Ronald McFuckingDonald) wig for your character if you connected your DS at a McD’s

By: aviel yamin

aviel yamin — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:11:41 +0000

+1 to recon’s post
add to the list: red alert 2: yuri’s revenge has few missions which involves few Hollywood stars, without their permission:
Sammy Stallion, Arnie Frankenfurter , Flint Westwood
with Massivesoft Campus (microsoft was the original brand)
and if Einstein was alive they would’ve had twisted his name as well

By: recon

recon — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:24:34 +0000

What bothers me more and takes me out of a game is seeing a fake advertisement of a real one. Like the Taco Bell in Modern Warfare 2 etc. If they wanted to put Taco Bell and other stores in there for realism, then strike up a F’N Deal with them and put the real logos and stores in the game. But Mock advertiseing is the worst!

By: recon

recon — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:12:17 +0000

Rainbow Six Vegas 2 already has done this… and has changed the add posters in the game.. When it first released there were adds for Far Cry 2s release, now its something else… I think its the inly place marketing sould be on the 360. It adds emmersion, and serves its purpose without clutter up the dash menus that are not the marketplace.

By: VenomXR8

VenomXR8 — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 06:42:01 +0000

It is bad because it really hampers the “video games are art” argument. I mean would the Mona Lisa have been so revered if she was holding a can of pepsi in her hands???

By: Dale

Dale — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:47:14 +0000

Also, to the person above saying he doesn’t like the fact that in GTA there are fake restaurants. Get over it. No company in their right mind will ever license a real restaurant to a game in which you can walk in the joint and blow everyone away a gun. No one will ever want to be associated with that happening. And if they do, well, you can imagine the fallout they will receive when life imitates art. And trust me, it eventually will happen.

By: Dale

Dale — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:42:23 +0000

If the ads were kept at a minimum and only used when it made real world sense, it would be fine. But you and I know corporations and ad agencies are never satisfied. Give them an inch and they want a mile. It might be ok for a little while, but soon they’d be pushing to have ads in between loading screens. Heck, anywhere they could! Take the DVR, for instance. Ad agencies are trying to find a way to stop people from fast forwarding thru commercials. They’ve even contemplated having commercials play at super slow speeds so that when you fast forward, you still could see their ads. WTF!? See what I’m getting at? No amount of money will ever be enough for these people. Give them a little and all it’s doing is adding fuel to the fire.

By: David Macphail

David Macphail — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:52:15 +0000

Ehhh………what? I said if a stadium had ZERO advertising. If a stadium uses it’s seats for advertising then that would mean it has more than zero advertising…………

By: nate

nate — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:26:53 +0000

Whining about product placement in videos games being out of control? Take a look outside! Hell, take a look around your house. Product placement, and company logos are everywhere. That’s call “capitalism”… And business. Its all about making money. I’m far more bothered by product placement in the real world than I am about it being in some game.

By: spoz

spoz — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:36:33 +0000

@ #31

desagree, for exemple, if the stadium it’s empty it can show advertising in it’s seats.. like many stadiums do..