"Bobby Kotick, chairman and CEO of Activision, soon to be Activision Blizzard, recently said that the company will be trying to maximize revenues out of the highly anticipated StarCraft II. To do this, Kotick asserts a new business model for the franchise, which could potentially include in-game advertising."

http://pc.ign.com/articles/857/857150p1.html

To remind everyone, Blizzard previously denounced any changes as a result of the merger:

"This will not impact Blizzard’s games."
"There will be no changes in the way Blizzard operates."
"[B]oth of our companies will continue to operate as they have previously with regard to game development."
"the transaction will not have any impact on our games"

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=3168513659&sid=1

Is World of Warcraft next?

Can it possibly mean they are putting advertisement on the .net waiting room? Nah, it's too crazy, it's better to believe they are putting Coca-Cola ads on the walls of terran spaceships.

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Can it possibly mean they are putting advertisement on the .net waiting room? Nah, it's too crazy, it's better to believe they are putting Coca-Cola ads on the walls of terran spaceships.

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Space-coke by Coca-Cola. The Softdrink of the Kala.

If it reaches WoW... I have 1 question.

If the designated advertising spots are free game to anyone who wishes to buy them...

What happens when IGN buy them?


Lol



BUY WOW GOLD on a poster right next to the AH.

After a hard day Zerging, I enjoy a cold refreshing Protos Energy Drink.

And people called me a troll when I predicted this would happen months ago....

when will you people learn that I am always right?

Spawn more overlords. Brought to you by Pepsi.

All I have to say is if I see adds in my game I better be getting to play for free.

It's extremely unlikely they'll put ads anywhere in WoW except the loading screens and main menu windows. There's just nowhere they could set up ads in the actual game world that would be prominent enough to warrant the work, but wouldn't look out of place or cause a very negative reaction from players.

If this were City of Heroes, you might expect to one day be bounding across Paragon City and pass a Coca-Cola billboard. I seriously doubt you'll be seeing goblins at the Booty Bay Auction Hall wearing Activision t-shirts, though. I think the boldest they'd ever get are a few Starcraft relics littering the game world like the crash site in Tanaris - you know, stuff that can be explained off as an anachronistic little shout-out to their other games.

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And people called me a troll when I predicted this would happen months ago....

when will you people learn that I am always right?

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You ARE a troll, and so is the OP, nothing has changed.

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"Bobby Kotick, chairman and CEO of Activision, soon to be Activision Blizzard, recently said that the company will be trying to maximize revenues out of the highly anticipated StarCraft II. To do this, Kotick asserts a new business model for the franchise, which could potentially include in-game advertising."

http://pc.ign.com/articles/857/857150p1.html

To remind everyone, Blizzard previously denounced any changes as a result of the merger:

"This will not impact Blizzard’s games."
"There will be no changes in the way Blizzard operates."
"[B]oth of our companies will continue to operate as they have previously with regard to game development."
"the transaction will not have any impact on our games"

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=3168513659&sid=1

Is World of Warcraft next?

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So I buy a game with my hard earned money and then while playing it I am subject to tons of advertising. I don't think I would buy any games that did that.

Relax, their talking about the banners in B-net and the sponsored tournaments.

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/51641

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So I buy a game with my hard earned money and then while playing it I am subject to tons of advertising. I don't think I would buy any games that did that.

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You don't happen to have BF: 2142 do you :)

I would buy the game and play it.

My primary goal in life would then be to circumvent and disable any built in advertising client and making it as mass-distributable as possible.

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I would buy the game and play it.

My primary goal in life would then be to circumvent and disable any built in advertising client and making it as mass-distributable as possible.

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LOLOLOL When they send you to jail can I have your stuff?

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/10/19
Not quite the same, but humor makes the day a little better, eh?

Activision is trash.

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You don't happen to have BF: 2142 do you :)

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Nope and thats why.

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It's extremely unlikely they'll put ads anywhere in WoW except the loading screens and main menu windows. There's just nowhere they could set up ads in the actual game world that would be prominent enough to warrant the work, but wouldn't look out of place or cause a very negative reaction from players.

If this were City of Heroes, you might expect to one day be bounding across Paragon City and pass a Coca-Cola billboard. I seriously doubt you'll be seeing goblins at the Booty Bay Auction Hall wearing Activision t-shirts, though. I think the boldest they'd ever get are a few Starcraft relics littering the game world like the crash site in Tanaris - you know, stuff that can be explained off as an anachronistic little shout-out to their other games.

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If I see any ads in WoW, my subscription rate better go down. I don't pay 15 dollars a month to have ads crammed down my face because they think it will actually make me want to buy some piece of crap product because I saw it in a video game.