That's boring. Draw someone puking while holding a can of Coke (with an arrow pointing to the can of course)
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Zynga planning "draw this brand" in-game advertising for Draw Something
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That's boring. Draw someone puking while holding a can of Coke (with an arrow pointing to the can of course)
wolfmat
Confirmed Asshole
Would you include advertisers in that thought? Because it really doesn't sound as hot as you seem to think from that perspective.
I actually never encountered this but then again, I didn't play with random people. If a friend of mine did this, I would mercilessly go to town on them on Facebook personally.
I find advertising in a product I've purchased expressly to remove ads to be a pretty gross practice. That isn't being entitled, it's being lied to.
butter_stick
Banned
Why? This is a free game. Do you not watch TV because of ads? Not read GAF because of banners?
When it comes to games, I think I prefer the ad supported model. If there was a 400 points version of Fez that replaced cubes with McDonalds logos, I would have taken it.
wolfmat
Confirmed Asshole
I prefer going out of my way to avoid sprinkled ads as a consumer. When I want to know about products, I also go out of my way to inform myself where it makes sense. I feel like I need to keep control over what drives my purchasing decisions for some reason. Weird, right?
Treefingers
Member
Like expecting to not be advertised to in a paid app? This is asking for too much?
You realize Zynga/OMGPOP makes a killing from this app already. The only reason they're doing this is because they're greedy fucks and always want more money without a care in the world about their customers.
It's really sad how far expectations have fallen.
Sorry man but imo that's really sad.
XANDER CAGE
Member
I... wait, doesn't it already have this? I thought that's why shit like "Tintin" "Spider-Man" and "Adele" came up.
Certainly in the paid app they should give the option to turn off.
TheBaldEmperor
Member
There are 3 options to draw so I guess you don't have to draw that specific item if you don't want to. I did draw a very nice looking bag of Cooler Ranch Doritos and had no problem doing it.
GeekyDad
Member
I suspect if you have to ask, no explanation will make sense anyway. But let me try an analogy:
I eat; I shit. I don't put shit in my food. The two activities have a relationship to one another, but they don't need to be that closely related.
I have nothing against ads in a general sense. I get it: free game, stomach the ads. Doesn't mean I want to grease my body with them, so to speak. That's what this essentially is. It's a wallowing in commercialism I want no part of.
butter_stick
Banned
This was one of my favourite games growing up, so maybe I've been intoxicated by the corporate world to the point that things like this don't bother me. Maybe it explains why I love Big Macs too.
boutrosinit
Street Fighter IV World Champion
Scum.
SousedLouse
Member
yes yes, you're a paragon of virtue and self-restraint for not playing a game, good for you
Anyway, this seems like a bad idea to me. The app's already becoming less popular; the article posted in the OP claimed that the amount of daily active users went down from 14 million at the start of April to 10 million as of yesterday. And once more people hear about the change, I think that a good chunk of them will just stop using the app altogether - assuming that the advertising words will be added to both versions of the app, and not just the free version. And of course, there'll be a bunch of people that just draw something gross based on the ads out of spite and then move on to the next thing - I guess that still counts as advertising, but it doesn't seem all that great to me.
I guess it falls under parody or something? I don't know much about legal terms, so your guess is as good as mine.
Pachterballs
Banned
Products are still words you use so I don't see why not.