However,
advertisements aren’t even a necessary evil; they’re the opposite. Ads
are vital to almost all business, and gaming is a business. Not only do
they help thousands of smaller groups, websites and organisations stay
afloat, but, usually, they’re helping out two or three different
companies at once (the host of the ad, the product the ad is for and the
place the ad is being displayed). What’s even more baffling about when
gamers complain about ads is that, usually, these ads are in no way a
hindrance or in the way of your gaming experience, oftentimes they’re
placed in loading screens when you wouldn’t be doing anything anyway,
sometimes they’re placed on the walls of an arena in a sports game or
the billboards of a sandbox game.
These ads
shouldn’t be combated, in fact they need to be welcomed. Michael
Pachter, financial analyst and games journalist, said (paraphrasing) “If
anything, advertisements won’t make games cost less, but it may prevent
them from getting more expensive for a while.” Yes, we pay for
something, but that doesn’t mean that they’re obligated to not show us
advertisements. You pay for movies, television, satellite radio and
magazines yet you are still shown ads. Free-to-play games have plenty of
advertisements usually, and you often end up paying the same amount as a
full-priced game from micro-transactions.Hdd Data Recovery
So
what makes games any different? It’s not very clear, but it’s likely
that gamers are very entitled people, more so than people who pay for
other services such as movies. They feel that they’re the ones in
control (or should be) and, while somewhat true, this is still taken out
of context or far too seriously. As consumers we do have control, but
it’s limited. Another issue is that very few gamers, likely due to their
age, don’t have a solid understanding of business sense and why making
money is important. This means that they don’t understand the ‘why’
behind all sorts of decisions such as going Free-to-Play or implementing
in-game advertisements. If we could educate people on these ‘whys’ then
perhaps we would see things in gaming become a lot more welcome.Data Recovery Software
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