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Penny Arcade - Comic - Seemium
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Penny Arcade - Comic - Seemium
Videogaming-related online strip by Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins. Includes news and commentary.
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Now imagine some cyberpunk dystopia where you can lease a brand new shiny set of high performance cyber-eyes for cheap; but they come with ads. Just slap the right branding on them and the masses will eat that slop right up. The Apple iCyber II series X™!
So... like AR goggles, bleh. It's here, its just not wetware yet.
Ads are the pimples of humanity, ick
"Hand me your phone. I'm uninstalling all the mobile games and buying you a Steam Deck."
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/11/can-cities-kick-ads-ban-urban-billboards
I get that it's a tough choice for developers and content producers, though. Advertising currently pays for a lot of "free" content, and always has.
That's one of those areas where the answer is "it depends". Could they have increased the ticket price and actually have kept the same amount of customers, or would they have lost them? Are the ad sales just additional profit that would otherwise have to be smaller, or is the service only breaking even and losing money. (If it's a passenger train in the US, it's probably losing money, but I don't want to make assumptions.)
That money didn't appear out of nowhere
Both Gabe and Tycho probably have premium ad-free accounts on all the streaming services that offer them. If you have the money it's not a problem going ad-free
Believe it or not, you can have the money but still be reticent to fork it out. Usually comes about from growing up without the money. I speak from personal experience.
Also, some services don't even have a completely ad-free version. Admittedly it's usually for other shows on the service, but Paramount+ only has "fewer ads". Prime too.
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The fullscreen ads while watching a show are "just like a videogame" because it's like the experience of watching someone play a game on Twitch, right? Not the same as playing a game? I can't recall a non-mobile game that takes ad breaks. No, wait, MGS4 had parody ads between chapters.
I get that I'm officially An OldTM. "I used to be with it," etc.
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Maybe he meant just freemium mobile games? A kids is less likely to differentiate between those and "real games".
The worst is the pause ads. When you pause a show, it serves up an ad! What the fuck?p
I was raised in house with minimal TV. One thing that makes me unreasonably angry is a TV I can't turn off or mute. If I ever encounter ads that can unmute my TV it will be a very dark day.
I think about the following Futurama joke a lot:
This old-school version of the ad-supported model feels oddly like detente. Instead of the double-dip many services are going for. And while I could switch over to playing stuff off the media center, I'll often just put on the ST:TNG or MST3K channel instead, and see if they're showing a block of good episodes to half-watch, half-listen to while I'm doing something else.