Nike-swooshed body armor, 1kg of sugar will be megahealth, shards will be crunchchips and instead quad - poster of nick nolte ? it will be fo sure real fps thriller of the year.

I prefer Adidas armors. thx.

Adidas sux

adidas ftw

Abibas > Adidas

that's for Jibo

sif those are not forged in child labor

poster of chuck norris

as long as beer can be health bubbles I'm all for it

as long as they dont put any food to represent health cause liam will become the convincing champion in a week and ruin the game.

hahahahah :D


[+]'ed

that would make for some epic games between me and liam!

i changed my mind, change health with armor in the statement, he'd make cooller look like a nobrainer

http://combatcarl2.ytmnd.com/

Software should not be ad-supported! what does "google" know about what gamers want?!? nothing.

Also, it should be free. Or not, I don't care, I'll just download it from bittorrent anyway. I don't even have a job. And if I did have a job I would not spend my hard earned money on some dumb video game.

/sarcasm
//knows for a fact (and citations can be provided from this very site) that this is a common viewpoint of many gamers.

EDIT:
"Sounds like a great opportunity for many indie and Flash game developers, but what does this really mean for Joe Six Pack like you and me?"
WTF? Did Sarah Palin write this? No wonder it's so retarded.

Question.
If there were an option to purchase the game, thus disabling the in-game ads, would you pay it? Assuming it was a reasonable amout? (say... $15.00 for quakelive, for instance)
I'm honestly curious.

Gosh darnit, you betcha. That was a joking reference.

You maverick!

article acts like it's something new for QL, but id has always said that QL will be ad supported to keep it free for gamers. i'm fine with a pepsi ad--or whatever, really--appearing in game while playing against others.

"real sports" have tons of ads all over the arena and even on the players jerseys. that's why you can watch them over broadcast airwaves for free.

Google just made a system to easily put in (controlable) adds in flash games... ql is not flash.

omg, someone else actually looked into it properly.

Googles stuff doesn't really have any impact on anyone here, cos I bet nobody here plays flash games...

yes yes, that's absolutely true. And it would be true even if my boss wouldn't be looking over my shoulder right now. really

hey I do :(

turn-based flash rpg best for touchpad :D

Clearly, you haven't played Grid 16.

article is full of saggy tits

Anyone remember that game global gladiators, I think it had a huge mc donalds sponsorship. Sure it ws a dave perry game whatever it was. Megadrive days.

Can't say I care TBH, so long as it don't fuck with the game, what is the dif if an ingame billboard says a realworld corporation, instead of a fake one?

we'll all picmip it to death anyway...

Picmip doesn't work on ads in QL.

motherfuckers!

Yep. =/

Indeed! That evil company trying to support it game with ads so it can reach a bigger audience, what a sin!

Or just make it up to par with having to cost money, and then charge for it.

Trackmania Nations Forever is full of ads from McDonald's, auto companies, etc...it doesn't affect the gameplay itself one bit though, and it won't with QL either.

Hadn't noticed :)

Ads in games will end up like ads elsewhere - people will be overexposed and will block them out...

Or at least that's what you think you're doing.

I wanna drive Audi A6 in QL instead of power ups

:)))))))))))))))))

all i am waiting is on pepsi and redbull ads. Then ill know ql has become competitionsponsorzthewholelot-big.

Quake 5 is gonna have popups inside the game, pausing the match for 5 seconds

you heard it here first
also, they will give you ads based on your surfing behaviour

sbs: #H/#L Waiting for YA @ bang bros area

if this allows games like QL to remain free, i don't care really. Hell i just realized there were adds in QL by reading this altho i've been playing it for almost 2 Months, so it's not like it's buggering me i guess :)

we need someone to crack some adblocker into the game.

walter! i heard he's good with wall editing....

Funny you mention that, almost any in-game advertisement system that I've ever encountered can be defeated by figuring out which host the advertisements are coming from, and if it's not coming from the same servers as the game itself you can redirect it to wherever you want.

Usually people just have it lead nowhere, but if you're clever, you can actually replace the ingame advertisements with your own pictures.

and if it's not coming from the *same servers as the game itself*

i'm afraid this will be the case

Who cares. Advertisements and product placement in games are not distracting provided they are done tastefully.

It seems like anytime thinks of advertisements in games they immediately think of the absolutely awful advertisements put in CS 1.6 and Planetside; literally just gigantic bitmaps plastered on sides of walls that look totally out of place.

BF2142, ETQW and City of Heroes all had ingame advertising, and it looked fine. They had signs and posters on the sides of buildings, and the advertisements actually looked like they belonged on signs. I also remember playing SSX3 a few years ago, it literally had a car that you got points for doing a trick through the middle of, yet it didn't feel out of place and didn't detract at all from it being a brilliant game.

Who cares. Advertisements and product placement in games are not distracting provided they are done tastefully.

Except that many of us have already paid for the game. Several times, in my case.

And?

If you're talking about Q3->QLive, it's not like you're being forced to update your copy of 1.32c or anything.

I'm not surprised you're still trying to promote your game like a fanboy. It might be hard for you to draw a parallel, but dealing with ads in QL after buying Q3 is akin to buying a DVD and then having to sit through commercials during your movie.

By all means, keep trying to vehemently defend the game - you might just get 16 more players to agree with you.

It might be hard for you to draw a parallel, but dealing with ads in QL after buying Q3 is akin to buying a DVD and then having to sit through commercials during your movie.

Of course! Since everyone who plays Quake Live would have already bought and played Quake 3 bef....wait a second.

Quake 3 and Quake Live are two different products. Did you actually go back and attempt to comprehend that parallel to see if it actually made any sense before you hit submit, or does being that damn dumb come naturally?

QL has matchmaking and a web interface. This is not a new product.

Can people who have never bought Quake 3 play this game?

Yes or no. This isn't a hard question.

Can they? Sure. Will they? No.

I never bought Q3, you fail.

Your voice on the forums is enough to prove that you won't play QL.

played 24 hours the last two weeks.
TBON3 and some others can probably second this.


How does it feel like to be wrong every other comment?

Wait, so you're trying to argue how much of a nerd you are, and you're actually supposing that you would need confirmation from another person to prove it?

Trust me, I don't care. Continue to prove me correct by spending more time on the forums than in the game.

since we both are arguing on a gaming forum I doubt we have to prove to be nerds. Even though you try to be the rebellious, angry nerd and when that fails claim to be a just a troll (which is obviously also nerdy)

Also both you and me know if I hadn't written the confirmation part there is a high chance you'd have jumped at that.

Also both you and me know if I hadn't written the confirmation part there is a high chance you'd have jumped at that.

Oh, you've got me all figured out.

since we both are arguing on a gaming forum I doubt we have to prove to be nerds. Even though you try to be the rebellious, angry nerd and when that fails claim to be a just a troll (which is obviously also nerdy)

The best part about all this is getting you angry enough to keep replying.

and there we have the switch to "I'm just trolling, I never meant anything I wrote".

cya

Not at all, I meant it all. Getting you angry enough to respond is just a bonus.

When faced with a simple question, you decided to answer it and but simultaneously try to change the subject.

Is that the best you've got? Or are you that desperate to prove to esreality that you're not simply representing a loud minority?

This has been my position from the start - you'd know that if you payed attention.

Doesn't change the fact that you're a loud minority. You literally post in every single Quake Live thread with your nonsense, desperately trying to be a one man echo chaimber because of a completely irrational grudge against id software.

You represent the absolute worst the Quake community has to offer. Thank goodness you aren't a representative sample.

I post in every thread, not just Quake live. You new bro? I do note that you vehemently defend QL in every thread, despite claiming that you aren't a fanboy.

I'm always a minority when I make claims, and then a few months later everyone agrees with me. Fancy that.

I post in every thread, not just Quake live.

So instead of shitting on Quake Live threads, you shit on every thread.

I do note that you vehemently defend QL in every thread, despite claiming that you aren't a fanboy.

Because I'm not a fanboy. Period I make a point of trying to approach each game from an objective viewpoint. I mean, what exactly do I have at stake here? Especially in this case. I didn't pay for the game, so it's certainly not convincing myself that I didn't waste $59 like I did with Quake 4. I don't give a shit about the ESReality community, so I'm not trying to ape community cred here or there.

It's simple. If a game is good, I'm going to say so. If a game is dogshit, I'm not afraid to say so. If a game turns into dogshit (Warsow I'm looking at you), I'm not afraid to say so.

Do not get me twisted. This isn't about Quake Live, it's about you being a complete fucking idiot.

So instead of shitting on Quake Live threads, you shit on every thread.

Hey, you just learned something. Great job.

Because I'm not a fanboy. Period I make a point of trying to approach each game from an objective viewpoint. I mean, what exactly do I have at stake here? Especially in this case. I didn't pay for the game, so it's certainly not convincing myself that I didn't waste $59 like I did with Quake 4. I don't give a shit about the ESReality community, so I'm not trying to ape community cred here or there.

If you didn't care, you wouldn't reply to me 50 times.

It's simple. If a game is good, I'm going to say so. If a game is dogshit, I'm not afraid to say so. If a game turns into dogshit (Warsow I'm looking at you), I'm not afraid to say so.

Do not get me twisted. This isn't about Quake Live, it's about you being a complete fucking idiot.

Then put me on ignore. You obviously think there is room for debate since you keep coming back for more. No, you don't like that I express my opinion, and it scares you that I'm right. If the game is so great, my negative views expressed here will have no impact, so why keep responding?

You are the very definition of a fanboy.

Thus, you're getting something new for free.

<insert good old "you don't have to play it" sentence here>

I know I don't have to play it - that's the point. Why not just make something worth paying for? Why not try to make me WANT to play it?

So why are you grumpy about advertisements in a game you're not going to play?

I would have liked to play a well made game, and I'd've been willing to pay for it.

What are we talking about again?

giraffes

DO NOT FEED THE TROLLS

why is this posted as an article?

Welcome to the after-bug era of esr, where user count is hardly >500 and little rants are considered "articles".