[PATV] Monday, September 3, 2012 - CheckPoint Season 2, Ep. 18: Core Crisis

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[PATV] Monday, September 3, 2012 - CheckPoint Season 2, Ep. 18: Core Crisis

What is gameplay worth to you? Square says: Your time and eyeballs.

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Falx

So... what exactly is stopping people from just queuing up like six hours worth of ads and just going somewhere else?

Other than the inherent honesty and virtue that fills the internet to overflowing, that is?

AnTyx

Probably mouse-movement checks within the website, or they just won't let you queue stuff up. Also, nobody cares enough. (This business model has been tried with the "ad-supported free PC!" stuff in the 90s.)

Then again... what is this "somewhere else" you speak of?

Tleilaxu

I only had to watch a 15 second pre-roll ad to see CheckPoint. I can only assume that your seconds are worth half of my seconds. I demand twice as much CheckPoint now!

AnonymouZero

you know those people that comment only with that quote from the video they just watched? i'm one of them. therefore:

"shut, up!" LOL

CaptainLoser

I have never seen an ad before watching this show. Am I stealing your show from you?

TrueFlyingCow

I believe I read about the thing square is doing with watching ads --> play games, and to get around the "walk away while ads are going and come back and play forever" thing, they're limiting you to storing up a max of 1 hour of playtime. But it seems like you can still have the 1-3 minutes of ads going then switch to any of your other 20 open tabs and poke around the other parts of the internet until the ads are done.

Punk Rex

Why are they re-releasing The World Ends With You? I still have that game up stairs, its not dusty or anything, you guys can burrow it if you want.

Its quite good.

TiagoR2

shutuuuup

theleman

I met Graham and Kathleen at PAX! They are both such enjoyable people. </fanboyism>

Nergy

Pre-roll Ad? Oh yeah, I totally watched that. Yeah, No Adblock Plus Firefox Extension for me! Nope.

Tube

So glad you feel the need to let the people who spend huge amounts of time making free entertainment for you to watch know that you're going out of your way to make sure they can't make a living out of it. Way to go you. You're a cool guy.

Graved

Dungeon Fighters Online still unavailable in Europe and Russia. This sucks ><

urknighterrant

LMAO @ "That dpoesn't seem like a very good deal."

Kathleen you guys are awesome. That's a great deal.

Bewildered_Ronin

I wonder; with the Sqenix service, could you just load up a bunch of ads and then walk away? Hell, next time you're browsing around just leave the site open in a tab, go back and click on a new ad every few minutes, and rack up a bunch of free game time. It's an interesting idea, but I think the potential for exploitation is very high.