Comments on: Games as Portals https://afkgamer.github.io/afkgamer-com/archives/2005/03/02/games-as-portals/ Hello. I see you. Tue, 28 Feb 2017 12:33:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.1 By: Erkht https://afkgamer.github.io/afkgamer-com/archives/2005/03/02/games-as-portals/comment-page-1/#comment-371 Thu, 03 Mar 2005 20:39:55 +0000 https://afkgamer.github.io/afkgamer-com/archives/2005/03/02/games-as-portals/#comment-371 Ya, AO did this a long time ago, over a year? I remember seeing the billboards for Notum Wars and thought “ok, it’s only a matter of time”, and it was.. Unlike the other tards that might do adverts in-game though, AO did it with class, it wasn’t offensive, and just came off as “cool”.. There it was, a billboard display for Alienware computers.. Fit right in!!
Damn you AO for not upgrading your graphics last year while you were doing the Alien Invasion action.. Damn that game had/has some of the coolest environments.. The Shadowlands zones are freaking beauty, and as I created a new character to play there I thought, damn, *still* using these same low-poly faces?? Let’s meld CoH’s char-creation/detail, bubblechat and smoothness with AO’s concepts and world.. Huzzah!

]]> By: uruloki https://afkgamer.github.io/afkgamer-com/archives/2005/03/02/games-as-portals/comment-page-1/#comment-370 Thu, 03 Mar 2005 19:22:55 +0000 https://afkgamer.github.io/afkgamer-com/archives/2005/03/02/games-as-portals/#comment-370 Errr, isn’t it Anarchy Online that is already pimping RL ads to the new free accounts? I’d look it up, but I have a naked NE dancer callling my name on the other screen.

]]> By: UnionCarbide https://afkgamer.github.io/afkgamer-com/archives/2005/03/02/games-as-portals/comment-page-1/#comment-369 Thu, 03 Mar 2005 07:48:56 +0000 https://afkgamer.github.io/afkgamer-com/archives/2005/03/02/games-as-portals/#comment-369
XFire (http://www.xfire.com/) supports in-game messaging between any number of different games.

The downside is that you have to run Yet Another Client, but it seems to work pretty well.

]]> By: Foton of AFK Gamer https://afkgamer.github.io/afkgamer-com/archives/2005/03/02/games-as-portals/comment-page-1/#comment-354 Thu, 03 Mar 2005 01:34:23 +0000 https://afkgamer.github.io/afkgamer-com/archives/2005/03/02/games-as-portals/#comment-354 Answering the door is for noobs. 🙂

Have you considered a future in marketing? heh, I know you were being facetious, but those ideas aren’t bad.

]]> By: Mannox https://afkgamer.github.io/afkgamer-com/archives/2005/03/02/games-as-portals/comment-page-1/#comment-353 Thu, 03 Mar 2005 00:18:23 +0000 https://afkgamer.github.io/afkgamer-com/archives/2005/03/02/games-as-portals/#comment-353
I can see it now…in game commercials, discounts and even spam in your game mailbox. How about camping the Uber Free Pizza coupon that drops once every 8 hours from a random mob? I can hear the Ninja Loot cries as we speak!

I further see games charging a premium for non-spammed and commercial free accounts.

Imagine the immersion of walking into a tavern in game and ordering a beer and then the doorbell rings with your delivery! Wouldn’t that be something! No /pizza! You walk up to a merchant right click on him and buy food just like you buy arrows. It charges whatever CC you use to pay your subscription with and BAM! BOOM! You got food/drink!

Still gotta afk for bio breaks and to answer the door but I am sure they are working on that as we speak!

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