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[zed-lep]

I'll take a sprite!

[Varin]

[GateKeeper]

[theShaggy]

Re: I'll take a sprite!

[Saevitia]

[AngelAnger]

[chulo333]

I think everyone that's posted in this thread have perfectly valid points including the people that don't mind the ads. The only thing is (and the reason I started this thread), They could have advertised in a way that didn't pull you out of the game. Advertisers are creative people. Infact, the whole ARG thing started (as I understand it) with someone trying to find a new way to advertise. The Sprite and Monster.com comercials in the phone lines "hold" music was fine...non-intrusive, subtle. But when the TV commercial has the Sprite logo, or worse, when the website they lead you to is obviously a Sprite website, it just pulls you out of the game. They haven't established any connection with Sprite in the story line, and like a previous poster said, why would Sprite websites lead to hidden documents on the Hanzo website...It just doesn't work with the story. The reason these ARGs are so interesting and sucessful are because they're an emmersive storyline. Notice that nobody's complaining about Monster.com...the advertising has so far been very non-intrusive and has done it's job so far. How many people are constantly scouring Monster.com now for resumes with some link to THF. Monster.com is getting tons of new visitors, and ARGers aren't bothered.

I'm not against the advertising itself...hell, ARGs aRE advertisements. All the PMs had to do was to establish some subtle story based link with Sprite and Hanzo, and people would be out buying Sprite and looking for clues on the bottle.

Anyways, I'm not pissed about it, just slightly dissappointed that there's been this much done wrong so early in the game. It does start to feel like inexperienced PM's handling this one. I'll still play this one all the way through though...I just hope they learn and improve it as we go along.

[RPGgame]

the biggest issue is that the pms are prob not looking at this site and since the discussion is taking place here they will never see it. By not seeing it they will not understand what is going on. Of course there is prob going to be a post game chat but i doubt they even know we exist.

[Huginn]

[CrispyG4]

Just throwing my views out there, I think you're all a little elitest. Conpare this with the same people who hate a band that they liked simply because it went on MTV or something like that. Also see: Sell Outs. It makes no sense because the game should be about the game. Trust me, I'm sure some of these other ARGs you loved would have gladly accepted a check from Sprite to do something as small as involve Sprite's marketing campaign in an IG site and have a small "sponsored by sprite" marking on the site.

And I REALLY don't see what the big issue is. For all we care or need to care, Hanso is just some other big company that advertises as well (the commercial). And this whole ARGs just a big way to get more people to watch LOST, not to mention the fact that Bad Twin's been thrown around these sites more times I can count. Bleh, if the sprite Ad really does turn you off from the game, good riddance. Less crap flying around.

[curiouswife]

For heavens sake, we watch Lost on the TV - complete with all the adverts in between - and those adverts help pay for the TV channel and/or the programs, in the UK we now have 'Drama sponsored by.....' and surely thats how soaps started.

Theres no such thing as a free lunch...

Enjoy the game, take as much notice or not of the adverts, and remember, we all have to earn our living somehow.

[Grand Theft Autumn]

[MrBeefy]

[Grand Theft Autumn]

Okay, maybe it's not quite on the level of The Beast yet, but it's still pretty good so far. I don't care if sprite ads are thrown in, just get over it.

[Jenna]

stop telling people to "get over it" - it's an opinion

Been a bit quiet in here today. Do things normally progress this slowly?