Quote: "Personally, I'd like to see advert-funded games, instead of publishers charging £40 for a game they make it a free download, and load it up with in-game adverts and product placement....
... And if you calculate how much actual money get's back to the people making the games, I reckon sponsorship could be a more commercially fair option for them as well. Most games don't make a profit anyway, so why go to the expense of releasing them in stores when you can throw it on a website.
It cut piracy down to nothing too, there would be nothing to pirate!.
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I had the same idea too, and want advertisers for my loading screens.
That's the plan for my third release after I have some working samples.
But, you let the cat out of the bag now, so everyone will be doing it.
Sound logic, just like...
If you outlaw guns, then only outlaws will have them.
I find it easy to agree with your logic VanB.
Although, keeping the best ideas hush-hush is more diabolical.
You force me to act like the Digital Cable and Satellite companies did to us with our Analog Television.
Even though it was free because of the commercials, we're going to charge you and still charge the advertisers too!
I'm just kidding about the last part, but the big boys aren't.
There are pay to play games that already have advertisers in them.
Every brand name in games gets exposure and only the developers know if they paid for it or not.
PostScript
On a personal note:
I think that the term "Abandon Ware" is misleading if the publisher is offering it as a promotion.
As you pointed out, it promotes their company and brings traffic to their site of current projects.
It can not be abandoned if it is still in use by the company, even in a no-cost fashion.
It's too bad the public adopted such a term.
