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Counter-Strike gets in-game ads

The release of Smokin' Aces DVD will be promoted by in-game advertisement in Counter-Strike: Source online multiplayer shooter.

The adverts themselves appear as posters on walls in various different locations in the game, and will enjoy more than five billion minutes of playtime generated by the game each month.

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DirtyRat - 947 days 22 hours ago

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Valve have caught up with EA on this front then...I think it's sad they dont give gamers the option to opt out of viewing the ads

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Bullseye - 947 days 22 hours ago

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2 - I agree with you, it would have been respectful to allow a choice.

However, the worst thing is people will still buy it just the same, despite being ignored over choice.I won't be buying this game, but then i do believe in exercising my choices, so i'll buy an alternative without advertising. STEAM is sh!te, down with STEAM!!!

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DeadlyFire - 947 days 21 hours ago

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3 - Why do you care?

You can simply paint over them in game anyway in CSS. :P I hope some ads get placed on destructable environments in the future. LoL Blow up them ads.

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Krimson - 947 days 21 hours ago

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4 - Bleh

This is kind of brutal. I don't mind advertising in games when it blends in to the environment (such as putting a BK in a city of a racing game or something) but this just totally stands out and is an eye sore. Hopefully we can spray over top of these! :P

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Icewake - 947 days 21 hours ago

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5 - Terrible

wtf is this BS. Thankfully I only play Zombiemod now.

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ZeroAlarm - 947 days 21 hours ago

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6 - Now we can really see Valve EA roots

Hm maybe the devs who broke off with EA and started Valve still kept in contact, their plan to get the support of hardcore gamers and then use methods that EA use once they were drawn in. Explains the hacked figures of Steam's oddly high income - why was all that money in a subsidiary account, and who was it going to...hmmm... That's one very implausible conspiracy theory lol.

Anyway, this is pathetic. Influenced by or in competition with EA or not, this is a disgusting move by Valve; basically selling-out their fans. I'm personally boycotting the game and any products that I hear have been advertised on it - the less support this system gets the less likely it is that this horrible marketing ploy will catch on to other games.

Who actually buys products because of seeing an advert anyway? "BUY COKE" sorts of adverts are pointless. The only good advert is an informative or creative one, and even then they require moving pictures most of the time and so aren't suitable for these kinds of static in-game ads. Unless... lets not even go there.

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