The D&D trial - what's the point?

[Frisk]

Sorry, I just don't get it. What is the point of "including" a free 7-day trial to DDO with NWN2, when that same 7-day trial is already available to anyone at http://trial.ddo.com/ ?

[tanita]

it's called "advertising". nothing wrong about that, but nothing won either :-)

[Dazlar]

As long as you can simply throw it away and not need to look at it... but if you take the box off the shelve in a few years and it's still there and you can't throw the advertising away, then it's bad.

*doesn't want to pay for adds*

If the advertisers pay for my game (and I don't mean finance it so I still have to pay most of it), they can write the adds all over the box, disc (except for the side the drive needs) and even make a little add in the main menu (read reasonable ratio between adds and price)... But that'll never happen anyway.

Kinda bad cause that'd be good advertising, in a way (and cheap for the consumers).

It's already an add, so it should in fact cheapen the product... which it doesn't! Saying it like it's a bonus is BAD!

I'm pretty sure I won't use it, I've heard what it's like, not my idea of RP. *pets Vivvles*

PS. Don't forget it's PAY TO PAY... uhm play. :nono:

[Lorft]

On a semi interesting note the new Battlefield game 2153? has embeded advertising. How long is it before instead of visiting 'yeah olde tavern' we see 'yeah olde starbucks'. Or perhaps 'this power attack was sponsered by pepsi max - do things to the max!'.

Lorft

[Dazlar]

Or perhaps 'this power attack was sponsered by pepsi max - do things to the max!'.

Lorft
I think that would result into the following scenario:

Customer: What kind of bakeep be ye that ye have no ale?
Barkeep: *gives a pint of Pepsi MAX*
Customer: *looks uncertain*
Barkeep: Don't worry, there's no sugar!
PC: But no taste either.

If I'm the PC at least.