Ads in Counter-Strike?

[CSN NewsBot]

Imagine this: You're walking along long A in dust2 heading towards the bombsite as a Terrorist. You take out your AWP and you fire off a shot at the target in your sites. What, you didn't get the kill? Of course you didn't get the kill! You just took out an in-game likeness of Subway's Jared.



Why is Jared in your game of Counter-Strike? Well, according to Gamecloud, there's a new line of in-game advertisements that may start showing up in your favorite online FPS.

You can add Valve's shooter Counter-Strike to the list of games that have gotten in-game advertising. This press release announces the launch of a new in-game ad provide called Engage that has already worked a deal with Subway restaurants to put in in-game ads for specific cities like San Francisco, Las Vegas and Sacramento. While the press release only states that the ads appeared in "the most popular online action game played among men 18 to 34", Gamecloud confirmed with an Engage spokesperson over the phone that the ads appeared in Counter-Strike game sessions.

So far as I've seen, there has been no official statement by anyone from Valve about the validity of the appearance of ads in Counter-Strike. I'm awaiting a response back that will either deny or confirm their agreeing to include ads, but in the meantime feel free to voice your (mature) opinion on the matter!

[washuplushie]

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HELL NO. I thought those damn in-game banners were bad enough but Jared would be way too much!!. I believe a boycott is in order .



edit: boycott of servers that use this crap

[RP]

Has anyone actually seen this?



Anyway, about the topic - I don't like it for the simple reason that it affects the game...



I don't care (I don't like it, but can live with that) having commercials in-between rounds, or when map switch.

But having banners or similiar things poping up in mid game, that is way over the line.



TBH, I doubt that VALVe will do such thing...

[GodsmackeD]

that sounds so damn gay.

[peagle]

I always thought the irony was that clients clearly have no understanding of the medium. I played cs for years and someone had to point out to me that there were banners on d2. Games aren't like TV, an fps demands you focus on playing, not staring like a zombie at some texture.

Our post-campaign survey showed a 94 percent ad recall

And I'm sure your contract showed a 94 percent chance of additional compensation based on the 2 people you corralled.

[washuplushie]

i cant wait until they invent animated ads where you 'pwn the monkey and win an ipod'

[Mikemike 2.0]

lol its not jarrett, its with a single d...



anyway, about the advertisements... i wouldn't care about them as long as they aren't too flashy or distracting, like the current banners in d2, they would be fine as long as they are similar to that.

[Erik Johnson]

We'd like to take a look at this, but we're having trouble finding a server that is running in this fashion.



If someone can find one, can you shoot me the IP or name of the server please?



erik@valvesoftware.com works.



Thanks



Erik

[HeadHunter592]

this would blow if true

[RP]

Erik Johnson wrote..

We'd like to take a look at this, but we're having trouble finding a server that is running in this fashion.



If someone can find one, can you shoot me the IP or name of the server please?



erik@valvesoftware.com works.



Thanks



Erik

Good to see it's not something that is "sponsered" by VALVe, but rather some over-"creative" company...

[Renegade[CSR]]

I'm glad to see this is not supported by Valve.

[sniper5000]

Ehhhhh i would hate that crap. but if i get paid for it, ill put it in my server :)

[sugii]

http://www.engageadvertising.com/case_studies2.html



that makes me sick.

[washuplushie]

looks tasty though

[masterren]

sugii wrote..

http://www.engageadvertising.com/case_studies2.html



that makes me sick.

Yuck.