Deus Ex 3. I shit you not.

[Kitsune]

http://blog.gib.me/2011/08/23/deus-ex-human-revolution-no-ads/

[Threash]

Huh? what ads?

[Ironwood]

Ditto.  I never noticed.  Is there some subliminal shit, or do the Eurofags get a no ad version because of Socialism ?

[K9]

Huh? what ads?

[apocrypha]

No ads on mine either.

America, land of the free! Oh wait... 

[Lantyssa]

Might just be us then.  I noticed it yesterday as I was finishing up my second play through.

[MuffinMan]

Pay no attention to the mountain of candy bar wrappers in the corner of my living room.

[Ceryse]

In Canada; no ads on mine and I just played. I was all ready to get annoyed and outraged before I'd stop caring.

[Threash]

All of us "what ads?" people are gonna look like fools when final fantasy 27 comes out.

[Xilren's Twin]

It's strange, the Star Wars ads now show up on my loading screens now, but only sometimes.  Not sure if there's a rhyme or reason to it.

Patching in useless advertisment a couple of weeks after the launch....good job guys.  At least they waited until most people had finished a complete play through.
In all seriousness, why bother to do these ads after the fact?

[apocrypha]

Testing the waters without the risk of adversely affecting sales due to negative reactions in the early launch phase of the game.

[eldaec]

It's strange, the Star Wars ads now show up on my loading screens now, but only sometimes.  Not sure if there's a rhyme or reason to it.

If I were selling ad space, I'd want to sell per impression, meaning it would only show when it can call home, in fact it is probably using your bandwidth to download the ad each time (hello Ubi-DRM) and only even then probably subject to some sort of rate per hour globally.

GIven ads will likely eventually be sourced from Google or some other central service - you can probably still screen them out using your hosts file.

[rk47]

Good thing this game has very little longevity. I wouldn't mind shit like those in BF3 loading screens etc, but man, a playthrough of this game would have more than 20-40 loading screens if you explore most content and being bombarded by ads would surely get to you.

[K9]

Can someone screencap one of those so us filthy eurofags can see what the deal is?

[eldaec]

[Ironwood]

Yeah, I've never had that shit.  That's fucking obvious and awful.

I MEAN FOR FUCKS SAKE CHAPS, THE GAME ITSELF HAS BILLBOARDS ALL OVER.  AT LEAST GO SUBLIMINAL AND BREAK IMMERSION RATHER THAN THAT SHIT.

Capitalism.  It's GRrrrreeeattt !

[calapine]

Yes, if these highly paid marketing people had any style or taste we'd have billboards in Detroit advertising the upcoming World of Starwars MMO.

Cala

Addendum: And lightsaber augs at LIMB. I'd buy those.

[K9]

Yeah, that's a piece of shit right there.

[Tannhauser]

Meh, I'd rather see it on a loading screen than on a billboard in game.  Loading screens break immersion anyway.

[UnSub]

My two obvious exposures to in-game advertising were:

1) CoH/V, where the billboards would display real ads along with the in-game world ads. But since I'm a filthy non-American and my money is no good, I think I only ever saw the launch ad that everyone saw (for Jeter shoes). I understand that this service has been discontinued.

2) In Prototype, where the city billboards were advertising the A-Team movie. That amused me. But Microsoft has since closed their in-game ad group Massive.

But there are problems with in-game advertising, a major one being that most ads (as they currently stand) are a poor fit for games at the individual level.

[eldaec]

I thought one of the BF games was selling in game billboards?

And I imagine some shitty console sports games do the same thing?

Also, Zool.

[Ingmar]

I am pretty sure I've seen it in some racing game or another.

[croaker69]

Planetside as well at one point.

[K9]

[Ironwood]

Why is he carrying a potted plant ?

[MuffinMan]

That's for after he has warmed up with Batman and Robin.

[Xilren's Twin]

Just finished up my Pacifist playthough, and by trying to go full bore to the end, i actually limited the end game choices

Now im going to go look up the Man in the Shadows acheivment.  No idea what that one is.

[tgr]

Sales numbers for 360:
http://gamrreview.vgchartz.com/sales/43321/deus-ex-human-revolution/

405k so far on that platform alone, and the last 2 weeks has seen sales of 32-35k, so it'll probably surpass 500k units there in a few months. I still haven't seen sales figures for PC or PS3, but it's looking like they should've gotten their investment back at least.

[Threash]

I would hope this does a shit ton better than just break even.

[tgr]

Additionally, when I said 405k sold, I was being a dumbass. That was 405k in america, it's 606k world-wide for the 360 alone.

If they're not in the black on this game, then they've done something very, very wrong.

[LK]

That doesn't seem like a lot of sales.

[MisterNoisy]

That doesn't seem like a lot of sales.

That's just 360 only.  PS3 in US will probably be about 50-75% of 360 sales and probably higher than 360 numbers outside the US.

Figure that equates to roughly 200-300K in US and 200K+ in other territories on PS3, and I'm pretty sure they're good to go.  Only Valve knows how many copies moved on PC.    

EDIT:  Ack, VGChartz.  My estimates are predicated on the numbers in tgr's link not being completely made up.

[Thrawn]

All acheivements unlocked, woot.  

I've never played a Steam game enough or cared to get all of them, Deus Ex actually mostly lived up to my expectations.

[K9]

Nice

[Azazel]

Apparently the boss fights in Deus Ex were outsourced.

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/09/19/deus-ex-hrs-boss-fights-were-outsourced/

Apologies if this has already been linked/posted - I checked the posts since the date the linked article went up, but I've mostly been avoiding this thread to avoid spoilers.