Are Optional Ads Worth The Trouble? 245
azuredrake writes "NCSoft's City of Heroes has just announced that in-game ads are being added to the game, provided by an advertising firm Double Fusion. However, unlike in many games, the ads being brought to CoH have been defined as 'always optional'. The publishers see the ads as a purely additional revenue stream, not as something that will ever allow advertisers to affect game content. Commentary is available at Gamasutra. Is making advertisement volunteer-based a viable way to get around cynicism? The tone of these ads seems to be 'check them out to help the game'. Are there any sites or services in which you'd voluntarily look at ads to lend a hand? "
Wikipedia (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Wikipedia (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Yes, with a however (Score:3, Informative)
new adblock for firefox beta5 (Score:4, Informative)
rather annoyingly firefox beta5 isn't compatible with the mainstream release of adblock however the development build here works fine.
All i need now is a method to remove the gray tramlines running down the page on slashdot. the nesting soon reduces me to 20% width comment 20% side bar 60% tram line. god knows what mobile users get.
Re:Optional ads still break immersion (Score:3, Informative)
This really is a win-win for NCSoft this time. Paragon City and the Rogue Isles will become 'more real' to me.
Re:Except... (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Doesn't offend me when it is on COH. (Score:3, Informative)