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[Manitou]

Originally Posted by Hamma

Didn't there used to be something like that on the TV's in game? Or am I imagining that.

They had stuff like this in BF:Vietnam. I remember the Vietnamese chick screeching out "GO home, GI!" or something to that affect.

[Firefly]

Originally Posted by Hamma

Didn't there used to be something like that on the TV's in game? Or am I imagining that.

They had those fucking annoying ads for real-life shit. I thought about paying the money to have an ad of my own, a propaganda ad or something. That would be a great recruitment tool... allowing the option of paying an extra fee to get your outfit ad in-game.

[MooK]

Originally Posted by Firefly

They had those fucking annoying ads for real-life shit. I thought about paying the money to have an ad of my own, a propaganda ad or something. That would be a great recruitment tool... allowing the option of paying an extra fee to get your outfit ad in-game.

Wait. I never experienced this. What the hell?

[Firefly]

Originally Posted by MooK

Wait. I never experienced this. What the hell?

That's probably because you rage-quit over Core Combat. Judging from some of the things I've seen you write, you missed out on a lot.

1) Dev turnover comes from failing subs. Subscriptions fail, a dev gets laid off. Case in point - Mythic Entertainment following WAR.

2) Core Combat being removed. This was explained a few months into the whole deal. A dev came out and said words to the effect of, "it was a fail idea, but we can't get rid of it because it's on the box art and that's false advertising".

Now as for these ads... for a long time, ads in-game were prevalent. They were live-action ads for real-world shit. Complete with sound, moving picture, etc. There was annoying shit from everything from Pentium processors to US Air Force recruitment ads. This should would spool up upon you respawning in Sanctuary. It had a positive side-effect - you got the fuck out of Sanc a lot faster.

[TRex]

Originally Posted by Hamma

Didn't there used to be something like that on the TV's in game? Or am I imagining that.

Originally Posted by Firefly

They had those fucking annoying ads for real-life shit. I thought about paying the money to have an ad of my own, a propaganda ad or something. That would be a great recruitment tool... allowing the option of paying an extra fee to get your outfit ad in-game.

I vaguely remember the initial propaganda for each empire appearing on the big tv's in sanctuary , then they brought in some of the real life adds like fanta or whatever ..a failed idea never really took off the way they thought it would ..then after that we we left with the static stuff we have now.

[Ghryphen]

Originally Posted by Firefly

Now as for these ads... for a long time, ads in-game were prevalent. They were live-action ads for real-world shit. Complete with sound, moving picture, etc. There was annoying shit from everything from Pentium processors to US Air Force recruitment ads. This should would spool up upon you respawning in Sanctuary. It had a positive side-effect - you got the fuck out of Sanc a lot faster.

I remember them, mainly Fanta.

http://www.secretlair.com/index.php?...ns_planetside/

[Traak]

The "I'm half horse, but hung like a mouse" ads were particularly gay.

[Bags]

Insult the in-game ads all you want but if it wasn't for them I would never have found out about this cool game called "Planetside".

[Grimster]

Haha I think ingame ads were awesome. If they bring in more money to the game then its fine with me.

I also remember when they stuck a Intel Pentium ad on the loading screen.

[Jonny]

Originally Posted by Grimster

Haha I think ingame ads were awesome. If they bring in more money to the game then its fine with me.

I also remember when they stuck a Intel Pentium ad on the loading screen.

Thats a slippery slope your treading there. Video games are one of the last digital mediums to be free of adverts, unlike everything else in society where you're bombarded with them. They're evil and have no place in games. If you're paying a monthly fee why do the developers feel the need to advertise too.

Totally not on in my opinion. It would make me reconsider paying for planetside next if it had any non game world related adverts in it.

[Baneblade]

Originally Posted by Bags

Insult the in-game ads all you want but if it wasn't for them I would never have found out about this cool game called "Planetside".

How exactly did the ingame ads bring you to PS?

[Grimster]

Originally Posted by Sobekeus

How exactly did the ingame ads bring you to PS?

I believe he was being sarcastic since the billboards ingame nowadays only have what appears to be ads for PlanetSide.

[Grimster]

Originally Posted by Jonny

Thats a slippery slope your treading there. Video games are one of the last digital mediums to be free of adverts, unlike everything else in society where you're bombarded with them. They're evil and have no place in games. If you're paying a monthly fee why do the developers feel the need to advertise too.

Totally not on in my opinion. It would make me reconsider paying for planetside next if it had any non game world related adverts in it.

Well I don't really see the problem here as long as the adverts stay as billboards ingame. I mean product placement is quite common and that could be a kind of product placement in some sense.

You can't really compare it to for example TV where you have commercials every 10 minutes or whatever it is.

If it would be a proper comparison the game would be interupted every 10 minutes for some commercials and yes that would be bad but a few billboards ingame with some commercials is nothing I see a problem with.

If that brings a few extra bucks to the game developers why not? You can simply ignore them if you don't like them.

Like it or not they make the game to earn profit not to satisfy you even if satisfying you brings them profit it still bottles down to that their main goal is to make profit.

[Bags]

Originally Posted by Grimster

I believe he was being sarcastic since the billboards ingame nowadays only have what appears to be ads for PlanetSide.

Winner winner, chicken dinner.

[Hellstar]

RE: Certifications and abilities

The BEP should relate to much more than just adding new certs. The abilities as a tanker should be enhanced as your experience levels in that vehicle progresses. If you receive merits for performance then that should allow new abilities like more precise aiming, better armaments on the tank, possibly a mine fieds clearer device on the front for just some examples. This can work for any field, create a MOS type system like the military and reward those in that "career field" for excellence. I have played PS for 7 years and see the current merit system as worthless. Changing it this way would be exciting and a strong incentive to be very good at what you like instead of just boring mass spam killing at the tubes for example. I love being an engineer and would like to see my hard work for all these years be meaningful and see the gameplay of skilled players rewarded. Lets not lose all those really great players, they are starting to come back and the game is so much better for that. This is our chance to get it right!