Sony Patent Will Stop Game to Play Advertisement

[memadmax]

oh god.........
My WASD keys just sprouted legs and walked off......

 

[amoralman]

OMFG!

If this happens, I sure hope we can get pirate-edition that removes those unwanted ads. I have no issue with in-game ads, actually ads most of the time to realism, but this? When I buy a DVD, I re-encode it without all the stupid 10 minutes of ads at the beginning (to preserve the original in mint condition of couse). Wow, now we have proof that Sony hates gamers and only see a cash interest in them.

 

[Guest]

I will make sure to never buy ANY of the products advertised in game. No matter how great it is.

 

[bigdragon]

I used to watch TBS...or maybe it was TNT. They had these annoying ads where a character from some new TV show stood in front of what you were watching, used a remote to pause it, and then promoted the show. I immediately stopped watching everything on that network. Put an ad in my video game, my escape from everyday life, and watch as I do the same. I complain when I want to try and improve something. In the case of this type of advertising there is no complaint -- it's an immediate drop or complete aversion to a product. If I'm buying a game the ads have to be as unobtrusive as possible. Pausing the action is unacceptable, period.

 

[KrzyMoke]

This made me so mad, I even signed in to POST.

Looks like I will be moving on from Sony Video Games. Pretty Lame. I don't believe in Pirated games and I BUY everything I have and to now have to put up with game stops to see ADS! This is just a kick in the Beans and Franks. Time to boycott or just move on to another company.

 

[mrmez]

I heard Sony are also introducing a "kinec type device" with eye tracking. If it detects you aren't actually looking at the ad, it won't go away. You will have to stare at it for 30sec before you can resume your game.

 

[jojesa]

Another breaking news: Gamers Stop Buying & Playing Sony Crap

 

[Plasmid]

I wonder how effective these advertisements are when you don't buy their stuff,

 

[spectrewind]

[citation][nom]whysobluepandabear[/nom]Cool. Make the game free, and we might have a deal. Oh wait, you still wanna charge $60? Yeah, fuck off.[/citation]

Correct, if the game is "free" to play, then OK. If they still want to do this after the consumer pays their $60 licensing fee to play a copy, I can see almost no better way to kill future sales.

 

[willard]

Yeah, like any gamers are going to stand for this.

You can only take your money grubbing so far before there is a backlash and you lose money. I'll take games with slashed production budgets over game-stopping ads any day. As anyone who grew up with the Atari and NES will tell you, photo-realistic graphics are overrated.

I want a game, not a movie. Fun comes first, visuals are secondary.

 

[amuffin]

Sony being a dick.

 

[mitch074]

I haven't owned a console since the original Game Boy came out. Yeah, I feel old now.

So, if I understand well, a single console game now costs $60, contains ads, cannot be resold, needs an Internet connection, will probably fsck up your DVD-ROM drive configuration and/or host a TRojan horse program to prevent copying, and stops right in the middle to display ads?

On top of being short-lived (a dozen hours in average), rather easy to play through (savegames all over the place) to cater to a larger demographic, and encourages you to pay for in-game improvements.

The same game, pirated, will run without ads, won't require jumping through hoops to play it nor will it install a backdoor on your computer/console, and may even spring a community of modders...

This is not encouraging: honest people are actively discouraged from being honest.I think I'll look at indie games.

 

[billgatez]

You interrupt games for ad's. We interrupt your cash flow by not buying the Console.

 

[Guest]

Perfect excuse to give up on games and start paying more attention to girls

 

[cookoy]

instead of trying to generate revenues from ads, why not just make much better games that people would actually line up to buy

 

[john_4]

I will quit gaming first.

 

[Guest]

Let's look at this from another perspective. Let's say Sony recognizes the fact that no gamer would tolerate such an advertising system. Sony then files a patent for the advertising system thus preventing anyone else from being able to put such a system in place so long as the patent stands.

Long shot but, you never know.

 

[drwho1]

I play mainly Wrestling games on my PS3, I certainly don't want to stop the match to watch any stupid ad, and "then resume this match in progress".

$60 for a game (any game) is already way overpriced, if this would ever see the light of day, I will simply stop buying any games.

This is an insult to gamers.

 

[acerace]

[citation][nom]amuffin[/nom]Sony being a dick.[/citation]

Sony IS a dick.

 

[eddieroolz]

I dearly hope the system never sees the light of day, when I paid for the freaking game.