Gaming News and Debate

We all know that adverts on WebPages help pay for the running costs etc, but do we really want this in a game? Ad Sense is basically an advertisement service run by the guys and gals at Google, People who own websites can sign up to this service, which will then allow Google to show text, image and video advertisements in designated areas, website owners then receive money from Google when people click on these advertisements. The same process is being beta tested for games, which will probably take off due to having the Google behind it, which has a surplus amount of money at their disposal. If I’m not mistaken there are advertisement already appearing in console games, which is not terrible, however I would like to see the consumer reap some of the benefit from the revenue the games manufacturers are seeing, by way of some reduction in the price of the game. My fear is that the games will start to suffer as a result of all the advertisements, developers might start to get greedy and then start to implement features into a games that’s sole purpose is to advertise.