Feedback talk:User/Kormon Balser/Advertisements

Though I fully understand that games development is a business who's goal is to make money, there's a limit to that beyond which I'm not willing to tolerate. I play the game to relax. Part of that includes escaping the ads, banners, pop-ups, and all the other crap that has infested the Internet and which we are bombarded with on a daily bais. The last thing I want is an ad for McDonalds (no matter how subtle or kept within the context of the game) breaking my immersion within the game and intruding on my senses.

If people want to pay real money for vanity fluff from an in-game store, that's their choice and that's fine by me. But please don't force an ad-based money-making scheme onto the rest of us who'd prefer to be left well enough alone. If I've already paid my fifty or so odd dollars for the game, leave me in peace to escape into it for a few hours and leave the real world behind. Guild Wars 3 perhaps 06:05, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

I agree with Guild Wars 3 perhaps. Why would we have in-game advertisements anyway? We didn't in Guild Wars. In terms of stopping at a Mcdonalds for a health boost, I think it's an awful idea. Mcdonalds? In GuildWars? That alone would make me not buy the game. Weindrasi 18:06, 13 September 2011 (UTC)Weindrasi

sadly I must agree with all the above posts. I play guild wars to escape real life.. --The Holy Dragons 18:13, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

Haha, thats really not what I meant (I thought I made it clear I don't want lots of advertisements in the page). What I meant was more along the lines of maybe hiking through a barren wasteland, only to find a desolate dungeon, and way down in there, there is a little side passage, with a little tunnel going off, and when you climb up there, there is a little cavern with.... a McDonalds. And thats the only one. It would be out of place, and funny, and I bet there are people that would travel to it just for that reason. It would be more like an Easter Egg, which is probably what I should have titled it. Kormon Balser 23:29, 13 September 2011 (UTC)

The Easter Egg concept I can accept; in theory. Unfortunately, in implementation and corporations being what they are, I don't see it working out quite like that. Even if keeping it subtle and out of the way was the original intent, once you start down that road, money talks.

Oh, sure...it starts off innocent enough; one lone McDonalds tucked away in some forgotten tunnel. But before you know it, McDonalds is offering ArenaNet some money or incentives to increase their branding. And in no time at all, there's a McDonalds in every city, every town, and every crossroads and every character will be required to sport the Golden Arches symbol somewhere on their person.

Elementalists will now be casting Flaming Hamburger Patties, Warriors pummeling us with the Hammer of McRib, Guardians laying down an impenetrable Wall of Serving Trays, Rangers will be shooting Arrows of Golden Fries, Necromancers will be raising Undead Chicken McNuggets, and Engineers will be shooting Special Sauce from their Elixir Guns (well, maybe not that last one...scratch that).

Then - instead of Mad King Thorn on Halloween - we have an appearance from none other than Ronald McDonald himself to look forward to.

Where does it end?!?!?

I accept ArenaNet needs to make money. Opening it up to corporate sponsorship/advertising, though, isn't the way to do it. Guild Wars 3 perhaps 03:48, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

Hahahaha, maybe we could have a McDonald's holiday and incorporate all of those? Kormon Balser 21:32, 14 September 2011 (UTC)

No McDonalds anywhere, EVER! Haha it'd be pathetic. Even the Holidays need to make some sense XD Weindrasi 17:36, 15 September 2011 (UTC)Weindrasi

No. Just no. It's really bad. To have ads while logging in or on the main site, fine. But having ads in game? No. Wazwolf 19:55, 16 September 2011 (UTC)

DO. NOT. WANT.--Will Greyhawk 08:06, 19 September 2011 (UTC)