Ads Now In CS1.6

[baconman]

ADS YES!



not like we paid for the game or anything..........................................
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......terrible idea

[DevgruSeal H.E]

shorty114 wrote..

http://digg.com/gaming_news/An_Open_Let...e_in_game_ads

Uhh..http://zmorris.com/?p=313 ?

[DaRk-AnGeL]

Edited by [user="55531"] @ [time="1173181154"]

Interested in Advertising with CS-Nation?

If your company is interested in advertising with CS-Nation, please contact CS-Nation's Business Director, John Jensen. John can be reached at john.biz at csnation.net.



CS-Nation is committed to providing low-cost advertising solutions to companies of any size. CS-Nation has been a mainstay in the Counter-Strike community since August of 1999. Since then, we've grown to become a large site with millions of advertisement impressions per month.



We hope to hear from you soon!

Sincerely,

John Jensen

CS-Nation Business Manager



john.biz at csnation.net

Advertising is a way of life, no matter how shit it makes stuff look. On one level, websites like this NEED advertising to pay the bills, we understand this. On another level, Valve put ads in game to make more money (they are greedy and sold out when they didn't have to).



I no longer see Valve as a reputable games maker and believe they have lost all direction of where their games should be going. Once again a great company has sold out into the shitty watery mainstream that is EA games. Very soon we will have Half-Life 2008, 2009 etc etc. They will milk the franchise down into some scripted pile of junk....

[MAX.PAYNE]

You know what guys?

Im REALLY MAD&ANGRY!!!



i played cs since it was 1.3,when it was just like a popular HL mod

And that big corporation suddenly just consumed the poor mod!!

And they are abusing it NOW!!!!!!!!!



Lets remove the ads ,make a patch or something like that

We should just replace couple of maps,few wad. textures and done!

[Thortok2000]

Here's the thing. Ads are a bad thing. Ads will make you want to buy the product. If you 'get used to them', and forget they're there, that's even WORSE. It's a proven, scientific fact that if you advertise something, more people will buy it. The more obtrusive and hard to ignore the ad is, the more people will buy it. And if it gets to the point where you're mostly 'tuning out' the ads and letting them go straight to your subconscious more often than to your consciousness, still more people will buy it.



I know this is how ads work. Ads will make me buy things, or inclined to buy things, I don't want to buy. Sure, I'm admitting that I'm weak-willed and feeble-minded, but only because all humans are. It's the reason we even have advertisements. It's the reason AOL is one of the biggest ISPs when they're one of the most worthless ones, because they spend so much on marketing instead of improving the quality of their service, and whenever internet newbies decide they want to get an ISP, the first one they think of is AOL. Even though there's better ISPs out there, the only one they've heard of is AOL, so that's what they get.



It is a proven fact that ads affect you.



So this is why I in general do not watch TV unless a show really catches my eye. (The only show I really watch right now is Heroes.) I generally wait until a TV show is released on DVD before I watch it, and before shows were released like that, I just didn't watch them. I like having an awesome television set, but I use it for console video games, DVDs, and eventually I plan to hook it up as a computer monitor, some of the time, if it turns out it works well as one.



I use Firefox to block ads. I have a virus protection software program that also blocks adware from getting on my computer. I also block spyware so that ads can't become more personalized. I filter spam in my e-mail. I use software that doesn't have any ads in it.



In short, I avoid advertisements when at all possible because they affect my decision-making when it comes time for me to buy a product. And they do so detrimentally; I may not be making the best choice if I just go with what I've heard from the horse's mouth.



In short, I feel the worst thing that can happen is for CS players to just get used to this, because they are just opening themselves up to be brainwashed by Valve. I honestly believe that every CS player should do one of the following things (in order of preference):



-Never buy a product from Valve again.

-Quit playing 1.6 altogether.

-Never look at the scoreboard or play maps with ads on them, ever.

-Hack/cheat the game, either via server or client, to remove the ads.



Players who do not do any of the above are just letting themselves get brain-raped and -washed and just asking for more abuse of the same.



I sure hope Valve realizes that their karma is rock bottom right now. The only way it could get worse is to put ads in all of their games, even HL1 and HL2.

[Jamestronik]

IF VALVE DOASN'T REMOVE ADDS THEY WILL LOOSE 50 % of GAMERS I CASE of STRIKE

[Fragalishus]

Like I alluded to in my previous post, the gamers have every bit of the power here, they just absolutely refuse to use it. I guaran-fucking-tee you if Valve walked in to work one day and saw 4 people playing Ricochet and noone else logged in to Steam at all they'd yank those ads faster than you can say....something that you can say really fast.



But they won't do it. Like fucking crack-whores looking for a fix. Valve knows they can just take a huge dump in their mouths and they'll just swallow it and say "damn that was good, got any more?".



Boycott, my friends. Petitions don't work. "Open letters to..." don't work. Stop giving them money? Works every fucking time.



While we're at it, you should make a note of every single sponsor you see in game. Sit down and write them an intelligent letter letting them know you will not be buying their products, either.



Once again, these things only work if the majority of people do it. A few of us on soap boxes aren't going to get anything done.



As I said I don't even play 1.6 so I jumped on a server to check it out. The scoreboard and spec menu aren't that bad. If they'd have stopped there I think everything would have been fine. But dust2 looks retarded as hell. Valve should go back and read the description for the game, especially if they used words like "immersive" and "realistic", which I think they did.



Anyhoo...your dollars are all that matter to them. Make them count for something.

[EnRIz]

A FIX IS MADE!!!

[Ryosuke T]

I already see real ads in the game already.



So far I mostly see Intel ads with their Intel Extreme cpu.



They can't seem to blend them in nicely, but oh well. It's just going to be a distraction but heh. We should be fine.

[omgomgz]

EnRIz wrote..

A FIX IS MADE!!!

You mean I complained for a few months straight.. for NOTHING??

[acidsnow]

At first i was like





but now I'm like

[bugmenot]

When cliffe and Goose made the deal with Valve for CS, Valve was supposed to keep the game free. Forcing players to watch ads is making them pay for the game. Even worse, Valve don't even run servers of the game, this is totally wrong. They make money on those paying to run servers.

[Zips]

The ads are all done client side. Nothing with the ads goes through the game servers at all.

[omgomgz]

bugmenot wrote..

Forcing players to watch ads is making them pay for the game.

Did I miss the memo where it stated that all ads were uncontrollable subliminal messages? As far as I know, they aren't making money off the ads if you don't get influenced by the ads.

[DaRk-AnGeL]

omgomgz wrote..

Did I miss the memo where it stated that all ads were uncontrollable subliminal messages? As far as I know, they aren't making money off the ads if you don't get influenced by the ads.

Doesn't matter a goddamn bit if you act upon the ads or not. Valve still get top dolla for them being in game.....