In game advertising?

[No601_Swallow]

Apparently Supermarine are getting a lot of product placement. They must have paid Oleg "top dollar". Further down the line, perhaps some American aerospace corporations might want to get in on the act...

[Erkki]

Originally Posted by No601_Swallow

Apparently Supermarine are getting a lot of product placement. They must have paid Oleg "top dollar". Further down the line, perhaps some American aerospace corporations might want to get in on the act...

I dont think the Il-2 either is bad advertise for, say, Rolls Royce, Mitsubishi, Boeing, BMW, or even N-G!

[Artist]

Have a think, what other brands have been around for ages

Mhm, expanding that idea to the other side, there are surely some german companies willing to pay money to be not advertised ingame - for exactly the same reason

Dreadful Idea!

Are we not bombarded with enough advertising in our lives as it is?
You do realise that advertising works on having you subconciously make a decision to buy a brand, this is done by constantly bombarding your brain with xxxx that appeals to the diffrent sides of human nature to make you buy.
Personally I'd like the free will to buy because its want I want rather than having seen a product so much my brain leaps to that conclusion.

Adverts in IL2 no thanks

[meshuggahs]

Since the flame effects seem pretty nice in IL-2:CoD I think they should advertise freetrack & trackir on the same spot. Maybe even throw a "valve" logo somewhere.

[JG52Krupi]

I've heard that all the aircraft are locked to bright pink hello kitty skins.

Anybody who thinks in game ads are the way forwards have two options either they jump off a bridge or I push the off.... Choose!!!

If you don't believe me there is a beufighter in a floral pink scheme that proves me right

[BadAim]

Yep, bad Idea. It would be letting the camel's nose under the tent. I wouldn't mind some limited and tasteful (no blinking yellow ads) ads for related products in the multiplayer lobby perhaps, but not in the game.

Ha - go to the potential advertisers about this and the next thing you know Oleg (we) will be paying them just to keep their wares in the game ...

[Kikuchiyo]

Originally Posted by JG52Krupi

I've heard that all the aircraft are locked to bright pink hello kitty skins.

Anybody who thinks in game ads are the way forwards have two options either they jump off a bridge or I push the off.... Choose!!!

If you don't believe me there is a beufighter in a floral pink scheme that proves me right

Haha I know where that skin came from, and it was pretty much created with the soul purposes of irking serious business flight simmers. It was tongue in cheek poking fun of people that can't get over the fact that it is just a game.

[TheGrunch]

No thanks, not ever. Big corporations are one of the few subjects where I'll take a slippery-slope argument and run with it with confidence. The boat hasn't already sailed on that one yet so let's not force it.