Massive Incorporated Expands

[Epictetus]

Originally Posted by Panther

And "Good Night Marco"...let the man get his beauty-sleep or he`ll be grumpy

Yes exactly. We are all worried about you and it sounds like a big day tomorrow so get plenty of sleep.

[Sendaran]

Originally Posted by Marco|MindArk

Other things come tomorrow though...

Damn you Marco, damn you! I'm supposed to go to school tomorrow and I was thinking about getting some sleep before that, but it seems that isn't going to happen....

[Walker]

I've seen Massive offer ads in other games, and IMO it works out pretty well.

PE is all about the economy. I expect Mindark will sell ad space to societies, provided the ads are reviewed first.

[Dash Smashing]

Massive also does the advertising for NCsoft.. (all kinds of mmos, visit playNC.com) including the one im currently playing, Auto Assault.

Auto Assault totally *kicks ass* .. it uses the same gamebryo engine as PE.. and yet it totally pwns pe. a billion things exploding on the screen at once, and remember our old running speed? quadruple that.)

Anyways.. Im assuming we'll be seeing a lot of advertisements for OTHER mmo's .. pe in ncsoft, ncsoft in pe, etc.

The ad system itself is neat too.. it can tell if you leave an area after only hearing 2 seconds of the advertisement, and then once you re-enter an "adenabled area", it will start off right where it left off.. =))

[frenchmen77]

Originally Posted by PE content

Future advertising system trial
You may have seen the large Hall of Fame entries recently. These have in no way changed the number or the value of lower end loots. A new system is in development, which will enable us to distribute revenues generated by ingame advertising to the colonists of Calypso. To make things interesting this revenue will generate higher level HoF-entries such as the ones seen lately. Ingame advertising will be introduced within a few VU's and the testing of the addon looting system is ongoing in Project Entropia and will remain in place until the advertising system is fully operational. Anyone who wish will have the opportunity to disable the advertising feature, this action will result in the colonist receives normal loot levels as before.

So, your trying to tell us our avrage loot is still normal? looks to me like you lowered the loot, then with the new ad system your going to rais it again

[Shifty]

im sure these repeating ads are gonna peev the traders in PA off.
Also,
If theyre going to introduce coorperations, are they gonna get a possible stock market running?

[Xen]

Marco, i hope the extra PED that is added to the loot pool goes to increase average loots, and none to increase HOF's. The HOF's are already plenty big enough to give PE that wow factor. I think it would be in MA's and the players' best interests to increase the average loot. You'd make a lot more people happy.

[ZippO]

sounds like fun, but ma really needs to work on the streamlining ;P

[MadMikeHoare]

Will there be a smooth performance testing before you guys implement this extra load to the servers? As far as I know extra textures do not reduce the serverload, they increase the serverload. At some places it's impossible to play already due to high serverload and results in FAP-Lag and a lot of missing shots (which was supposed to be fixed as far as I remember).

So even I disable the "COMMERCIALS", I might still be a victim of the commersialisation of PE due to possibly high serverload in general.

Let's hope the average loot increases and not only a few more ATH pop up because this would really suck.

Surprise us MindArk.

[Alf]

Yeah... they are making it more "realistic"... do they ever think that maybe, just maybe, people don't want this "realistic" aspect in their lives? Its nice not to be barraged by starbucks ads all over the friggin place!!! can't wait till I see coca-cola ads on every TP!! ........but, you really can't blame em.... its the $$$ right?

better contribute to loots.......