Quote Originally Posted by crawdad62 View Post
Now I don't want to get into it but if that's your criteria I'm sure you could find tons of stuff you do that you've paid money for and there's advertising involved. Heck you can't hardly buy clothes that don't have logos on them. That is effectively advertising. Even movies that I've paid money for and either had luck by-passing the trailers, ads, marketing of the intro I have to endure a avalanche of product placement or downright shilling of goods and services.

I guess that's my problem with it though. There's so much of it everywhere that I was hoping my video game would be the last bastion of ad free entertainment. Of course that's not the case. In fact I was shilled to buy Wipeout HD long ago in High Velocity Bowling (even though that makes more sense than trying to get a twitchy video gamer to buy life/home/auto insurance.
I totally understand what you're saying, but here is why I think it's different:

-when you are listening to an album/cd, people would be pissed if they put ads in between tracks

-if you are reading a novel, there is an ad after every chapter

-you are watching a movie, and in between scenes, an ad briefly flashes on screen

I just think people would be more pissed off if it was happening in these forms of media...I believe the same degree of anger should be leveled at this game.