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Well, that's Kiip's solution, but I think it's an elegant one. Beats pop-over ads anyway. Honestly, I think the game industry should be looking for other ways
by davidtyleryork 15y ago
Well, that's Kiip's solution, but I think it's an elegant one. Beats pop-over ads anyway.
Honestly, I think the game industry should be looking for other ways to monetize their content.
- melvinng 15y agoI'm there are much better solutions out there, the gaming industry has always been quite good at this. Remember how we fixed pirating of games? By making levels non archievable if you are using a pirated version.
- sukuriant 15y agoSee, I thought companies reduced (you can't stop) piracy of games by making their content so awesome that people wanted to pay for the game. Examples include Valve and Blizzard's lineaup.
- anonymoushn 15y agoActually, Blizzard is reducing piracy by requiring you to connect to their servers to play the game and sending an army of lawyers after anyone who attempts to create their own servers. Most of the content in StarCraft II disappears the moment you aren't connected to BNet, and what was left over disappears 30 days later. Diablo 3 will not work at all unless you are connected to BNet, and WoW is an MMORPG. S2 has taken a similar approach: their game does nothing unless you can connect to their servers. I'm not sure what Valve's approach has been. Does it also involves reducing the quality of the games offered by not including LAN play?
- SomeCallMeTim 15y agoI think it's a cute idea, but honestly I don't see how it's going to fool anyone into thinking they've "won" anything. An ad with a discount is called a coupon, and you can get piles of them from the paper on Sunday. Or from your junk mail. Or online. I don't think people will consider them to be valuable unless they're categorically better than what you find in the paper.