Ads in Counter-Strike?

[donkeynuts123]

ahahahhahah rofl those ads are fine i dont give a shit about that but it just amkes the maps uglier i thought they would be like pop-up ads lol

[LeRaldo]

I haven't read any of the previous comments, but there's been quite a few servers for several years that have had shitty server mods/plugins that put ads over several of the normal/stock maps like de_dust2 and so on. Whatever this company is doing is nothing new as far as I'm aware...

[esky]

Can't Valve just block these AD programs like they block cheats? A client could probably easily block this by disabling downloads or decals, but Valve could combat this stuff better...

[VuLLrath]

lets see... what shares a common hate with ads... oh popups...



i seriously hope they do not put ads in my cs games.

no one will play. you go to do something and boom ads popups and spray paint bull crap.



as if connecting to a laggy server with html ads wasnt enough as well as stupid spraypaints but now their gonna add this crap?



if this goes into effect then yes that previous post about cs getting competition with bf2 cod2 n such will have new meaning. cs will die, and have no competition because its self will not be a form of competition...

[snkcube]

Ads....*cries

[[CZ] Qw4z0]

yea!!!



one more reason to play much better games like bf2!

[agent420]

i think im gonna take that subway ad and make a spray....

[Deletable_Man]

lol all we need now is to install firefox in our CS :P (yes, thats a silly joke)



Seriously though, I'd like to make a spray with a giant adaware logo and spray it over those subway ads. Yeah, just my way to rage against the meatball sub.

[Splatula]

Unfortunately, even if Valve didn't/doesn't support ads... the way marketing companies use guerilla marketing techniques they could just use sprays to blanket a server with ads for a few rounds. It's cheap, effective and you can target specific audiences. Like for example, imagine you are watching the final round in summer CPL (i need the thoughts of warm weather right now) and one of the teams sprays tags of their sponsor all over while they play. Well... that will be thousands of young people who will have been exposed to a quick flash of an ad in game. Heck, in CSS you can even have animated sprays, which means even crazier ads. Yuck!

[ukHazard]

UK2 put their own ads in CS for years.



Worst hosting ever.

[EdisLeado]

WTF?! I'd rather ads in a plausible place, like lets say in a subway station map, there's ads on the walls. Not in the middle of CS_OFFICE! Put the adds on magazines on the table, or on the TV or on the computer screen, not a gigantic ad on the wall where it sticks out like a sore thumb.

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thor2488 wrote..

How is this bad? This will allow more people to host servers, because they can defray the cost of the server with advertising...

Do you realize what the ratio of empty servers to full ones is? There is no need in the CS community for more servers, and this is true whether you're talking about CS1.6, CS:CZ, or CS:S. What their is a lack of is high quality servers, with a consistently high standard of play and a lack of obnoxious addons (like "HEADSHOT" or ads such as these).

MikeJ wrote..

I've played plenty of games where I wouldn't mind real ads anymore than the fake ads they replace, but trying to squeeze them into places where ads were never meant to be is just sleezy.

I think placement, size, presentation, and clarity are all factors that affect this. For instance... cs_assault_cz features a rather distracting ad that can definitely take your attention away from the terrorists below the bridge. But that said, we're talking about a billboard-sized ad which takes up a significant amount of screen real-estate.

LeRaldo wrote..

I haven't read any of the previous comments, but there's been quite a few servers for several years that have had shitty server mods/plugins that put ads over several of the normal/stock maps like de_dust2 and so on. Whatever this company is doing is nothing new as far as I'm aware...

Yeah, I've come across such servers before over the past couple years, but I'd say they've been an abberation from the norm in my experience. Additionally, I've seen advertisement for clans and the server's hosting company typically, not for products, especially totally unrelated ones such as a food chain.

Deletable_Man wrote..

Seriously though, I'd like to make a spray with a giant adaware logo and spray it over those subway ads.

Typically the ad-placement has been done by adding an extra model or something along those lines via a server plugin. As a result, every time I've attempted to spray over advertisements, the spray has gone against the wall, slightly behind (and covered up by) the advertisement. Yes, I get annoyed by that fact.

Splatula wrote..

Unfortunately, even if Valve didn't/doesn't support ads... the way marketing companies use guerilla marketing techniques they could just use sprays to blanket a server with ads for a few rounds. It's cheap, effective and you can target specific audiences. Like for example, imagine you are watching the final round in summer CPL (i need the thoughts of warm weather right now) and one of the teams sprays tags of their sponsor all over while they play. Well... that will be thousands of young people who will have been exposed to a quick flash of an ad in game. Heck, in CSS you can even have animated sprays, which means even crazier ads. Yuck!

Honestly, despite how many people play CS, posting an ad in a game server is not an effective advertisement technique. Your viewership is limited, and most people will only get annoyed by such ads... it's likely to have a negative effect on both the server and the companies being advertised.



Given that the CS community is composed primarily of young males, I'd imagine your only effective ads will include pictures of barely dressed women with a "running low on tissues? Try Kleenex for the softest rub ever" ad over it.

[Ava3ar]

wasnt something like this suggested or tried 2 years ago ???

[V.C. Sniper]

I don't eat Subways.

[mickey]

I'll leave cs16 to the kiddies remaining in it. CSS is far more fun :)



Valve don't make the ads and they have nothing to do with it, get it?



Go flame the companies making the ads and ad plugins. I don't see a great issue as long as the ads are relatively small and not very distracting. In the heat of battle you tend to ignore irrelevant stuff and after the first time you see the banner you probably won't even notice it being there.



At least I find that to be the case for all those banner ads in web pages.