Now that marketers have gotten a foothold in video games, it’s going to eventually turn out just like ever other media, where the “content” is just something that is there to fill the spaces between advertisements, and the customers are not the gamers, the customers are the companies selling the advertised goods, and the product is not the game, it is the number of gamer eyeballs the marketers can deliver to sellers.

And you will still pay for the privilege of being bombarded with ads in yet another venue.

This sort of thing will, of course, continue until every last available bit of free space is covered with advertising, and there will be built-in projecters in your home projecting context sensitive ads onto your walls, based on keywords from your conversations, and you will accept this because the landlord will say that this helps keep rent prices down, which will be total bullshit, but you’ll capitulate anyway because your brain will be so overloaded trying to filter out all the useless information it is receiving that you won’t have any will to fight about it, anyway.

So, yeah, I guess you could say that I’m against advertisements in games.

If adverts are in the game during transitions or billboard style then great. If it gives game studios more flexibility to release games themselves without publishers then great. Publishers like EA and Sierra have killed gaming, especially on the PC. Although EA are releasing a dumbed down version of Battlefield with adverts in mind.

Advertising is a great economy which is helping fund lots of projects.