http://suttree.com/2005/06/12/nocd-begets-noad/ Beatniks with better clothing. Tue, 04 Jan 2011 09:03:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://suttree.com/2005/06/12/nocd-begets-noad/comment-page-1/#comment-22 casualities at Suttree, Elixir for Immortal Baboon Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:39:23 +0000 http://suttree.com/?p=24#comment-22 [...] How willl players react to in-game advertising? With NoAd patches. [...] [...] How willl players react to in-game advertising? With NoAd patches. [...]

]]> http://suttree.com/2005/06/12/nocd-begets-noad/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Fast and links at Suttree, Elixir for Immortal Baboon ~ Casual Games development Sun, 15 Jan 2006 12:37:12 +0000 http://suttree.com/?p=24#comment-14 [...] Which is odd since Counter Strike started life as a free mod for the original Half Life. Which is also odd since in-game ads are shaping up to be the next big revenue stream for games. I’ve talked about the impact on in-game advertising before, but in this case I’m on the advertisers side. CS servers cost a lot of money to run and I’m all for the owners opening up new revenue streams. A CS site like Axia.org.uk relies on its community to pay towards the servers through donations and I see no reason why they server admins shouldn’t use in game ads to help pay the costs. [...] [...] Which is odd since Counter Strike started life as a free mod for the original Half Life. Which is also odd since in-game ads are shaping up to be the next big revenue stream for games. I’ve talked about the impact on in-game advertising before, but in this case I’m on the advertisers side. CS servers cost a lot of money to run and I’m all for the owners opening up new revenue streams. A CS site like Axia.org.uk relies on its community to pay towards the servers through donations and I see no reason why they server admins shouldn’t use in game ads to help pay the costs. [...]

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