Comments on: Splinter Cell Conviction to have in-game ads

By: rainer

rainer — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:44:01 +0000

All the Splinter Cell games have had ads in the them bar maybe the first, they were static ads for a company or movies like in one scene the PC’s have an AMD screen saver on them.

By: No_PUDding

No_PUDding — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:43:22 +0000

@Blerk: ‘The news came from a Microsoft Advertising’s Gaming Upfront presentation’

Not that it justifies the whining or genuinelt has anythign to do with Microsoft. Splinter Cell has ALWAYS had ingame advertising. And it has NEVER damaged the expeirence.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:39:51 +0000

It’s also B$ not BS.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:38:42 +0000

That’ll be Ubi$oft, not Micro$oft.

By: NoxNoctisUmbra

NoxNoctisUmbra — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:33:18 +0000

Ahh Micro$oft, yet another BS attempts to make money.

By: No_PUDding

No_PUDding — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:09:03 +0000

Didn’t make Chaos Theory bad, I just chose not to buy Airwaves.

By: freedoms_stain

freedoms_stain — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:19:59 +0000

That’s why man invented torrents and streaming (God makes you do it the hard way).

Ad breaks are up to 5-6 minutes are they? Used to be 3.

By: Detale

Detale — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:11:06 +0000

Yep, I’m the same. I pretty much Sky+ anything I’m interested in and then I can fastforward the ads.

By: Phoenixblight

Phoenixblight — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:59:53 +0000

Thats why God created DVR you can just record your shows and watch them without the damn Commericials.

By: G1GAHURTZ

G1GAHURTZ — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:54:05 +0000

Whenever ads come on, I either change channel or just turn the sound off.

I hate them.

But yeah, they are usually 5-6 minutes long, apart from the ones between Channel 4 news, which are about a minute long sometimes.

By: satsugai

satsugai — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:49:34 +0000

Just want to say something about advertising on tv here… I don’t watch tv except for the odd show I like but I was sitting watching whatever was on this morning and there were adverts that rolled on for about 5-6 minutes. Has it always been this way? I can’t remember the last time I saw that many adverts played back to back.

By: Bulk Slash

Bulk Slash — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:47:47 +0000

This is nothing new for the SC franchise, I remember there were close-ups on packets of Airwaves chewing gum in every cut-scene of one of the games (I think it was Chaos Theory but they all blur together these days…)

If they’re putting adverts where the player is most likely to go, it’s a pity the game isn’t about hiding in the shadows any more…

By: Phoenixblight

Phoenixblight — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:34:50 +0000

Yeah not surprised from it. We cannot seem to escape Commericials even in our games…

By: G1GAHURTZ

G1GAHURTZ — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:25:29 +0000

Ubisoft have been doing this in their games for years.

By: Detale

Detale — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:19:11 +0000

Nice one Blerk, I’ve just spat coffee everywhere

By: ultrabrilliant

ultrabrilliant — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:17:47 +0000

I expect there’ll be a lot of shimmying across Coke billboards.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:16:31 +0000

Maybe the ads will be overlaid on the scenery like the mission prompts?

You could smash a guy’s head against the wall and an advert for cream cleaner could pop up. “Nasty blood stain? Cillit Bang!”

By: OrbitMonkey

OrbitMonkey — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:14:37 +0000

Your next objective: Meet the informant at Burger King…. Have a cool refreshing coke and collect intel.