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Circling the drain - consoles

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=24677
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX4f9zts6JM


This is being done post-release, on number of titles that originally sold without adds.

More proof that control over gaming platform leads to all kinds of asshatery.  Unless this get sued out of existence console games will quickly spiral down to TV-like 17min of adds per hour.

Please stop making these retarded topics.

Are you not even remotely interested in the fact that bunch of titles got sold without adds, then got bait-and-switch patched with adds? ... or did you already accept this as inevitable?

I'd be more willing to discuss it if it weren't part of your bizarre theory that consoles are in some sort of death spiral.

They aren't in any bigger "death spiral" than The Jerry Springer Show... just getting targeted toward lowest common denominator audience that even you might not want to be part of.

Perhaps better term - spiraling toward trash entertainment.

Stop being dumb, Sinij.

Nothing prevents PC game makers from doing the exact same thing.

I thought PCs were in a death spiral because od DRM and piracy? Now consoles are on the way out as well?

We're all DOOMED!

(http://geekadelphia.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/darth_vader_noooo1.jpg)

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DRAMATIC STATEMENT COMPOSED OF INSANE LEVELS OF HYPERBOLE.

STUPID LINK 1
STUPID LINK 2

RETARDED CONCLUSION.

Different issues. Ad revenue funds free-to-air TV and helps reduce the cost of pay-tv program development. In-game advertising is currently just a way to earn a few extra bucks for the developers. It depends about how much developers / publishers start to depend on ad revenue to develop / maintain games. Thus far, the actual returns haven't been good and online ad sellers like DoubleFusion have been making significant losses.

Also, it's been done: CoH/V launched without ads, had them implemented, currently they are MIA. Reason? Probably that no advertiser cares about a piddly 100k audience in a superhero MMO unless they are selling superhero-related products (and, funnily enough, few do).

Don't panic.

"WoW 3: Illidan's Son Returns will be back after these messages!"

*twitch*

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If consoles are circling the drain, PCs are clawing at the drain trap.

Ads.

Thanks, I forgot about that one. Good lookin' out.

I figured they were the nasty ball of hair stuck in the P trap, but hey.....

It's okay the world's ending in 2012 anyway.  We can limp to the finish line.

Yeah, but it's late in the year so don't make it sound too final. 

Still time to get those xmas season releases out!

The ads have already been pulled due to the load time increases they were causing.

These ads have nobly destroyed, not consoles, BUT THEMSELVES!

If only Sinij had not poisoned our perceptions we might have embraced them as the heros they are were.

Motherfucking communists!

Cal State Student Arrested for moding

http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/tech/Cal-State-Student-Faces-10-Year-Prison-Term-for-Playing-with-Video-Games-52386872.html


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That's the most sensationalist bullshit headline I've seen in a long, long time.

Also, it's "modding."

Oh, and you can't be arrested for just modding. I'd know, given one of my previous employers.

Since this thread was posted anyway.

He knew what he was doing.  He likely knew the risks.  Big. Fucking. Deal.

I can't say I even notice the goddamn ads in Burnout as I go flying by at pans-shitting miles per hour.  If you have a billboard in a game, feel free to tart it up with whatever ads would've been there in the real world.  I'll ignore it just the same.

Cannot find anything on ICE's website (http://www.ice.gov/pi/news/newsreleases/index.htm?top25=yes&year=all&month=all&state=all&topic=all) for details perhaps over the next few days we might find out a bit more.

Police seem to hound him (http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1784460348)  :why_so_serious:

They can still go after you with a civil case if you are modding (and circumventing copy protection) for your own personal use.

This guy was presumably selling modded systems and then it becomes a criminal offense.

http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap12.html#1204

Dude. You just let out the secret of every topic on the entire internet. Ever.

Might as well close the fucker down now.