Hello, As it says in the original article (http://www.csnation.net/articles.php/interview_231/):
"The current plan is to put ads in a few different places. There will be some ads posted on walls in the game world, an ad on the scoreboard screen, and one in the letterboxed area of Spectator mode." Embedding adverts into maps is generally fairly challenging - someone has to physically position them, and make judgements on whether or not that place is a good balanced place (and by balanced I mean will it satisfy the need to show the advert but also not be distracting while playing the game). So, adding adverts into a custom map is probably something a map designer would have to consider rather than the position being added procedurally. That is, if the server will require a map to have designated advertisement space... Regardless, there are still the scoreboard and Spectator adverts still to be shown, which will be more effective anyway. This heated debate has been rattling on for a few days now, and I'm not really seeing what the fuss is all about. Internet advertising (whether it's in the new advertising medium of computer games or traditional web sites) is here to stay, and it is a growing market (you can probably blame the Internet advertising agency^W^Wsearch engine company Google for that). While I can see the argument about server administrators that don't run gaming servers for commercial reasons (i.e. hobby or clan servers) not seeing any return from Valve in regards to advertising, you still have a great game to play, provided by Valve (server/client bugs aside). As to answer the concerns about whether or not in-game advertising is actually necessary, well, Valve would have to open up their account books to allow this to be answered. Valve does employ a fair number of developers (and, as I used to work in the industry, no doubt on above-average salaries) if Valve sees this as a way to increase income on perhaps an expensive business model, fair play to them. Finally, back to the original article, "we're just testing things with CS 1.6" - testing is probably the key word, let's not jump to conclusions... -- Bart King http://www.bart666.com -- +44 781 219 5654 -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of linux penguin Sent: 11 December 2006 00:24 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [hlds_linux] VALVe wants advertisements in CS 1.6 -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] what about the custom maps? would they get adds too? :\ -- _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds_linux
