Video game advertising is taken to court!

Wolfman Walt · Post by **Wolfman Walt** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:16 pm

Apperently the future of TV ads depicting video games is hanging in the balance! Or atleast according to an IGN Article which tells of a British consumer watchdog claiming that the Call of Duty 2 ads were false advertising. For those of you unfamilar and living under a rock away from a television, the ads are 3-d renders depicting generic World War II Nazi's trying to give heroic American troopers a hug with their Mp-40's and Panzers. Apperently the 3-d renders are misleading as they do not depict that actual graphic quality of the game. The ASA (advertising standards authority) ofcourse accepted this argument and rejected activisions counter argument of "Everyone else is doing it" and as such was acting on "good faith."

Ofcourse at the moment this only effects Teatime and the rest of the UK, but accordingly, it may be a trendsetter. Not like its any great loss, but it's ugh....well potentially a problem for anyone wanting to get into marketing?

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:26 pm

Wolfman Walt wrote:misleading as they do not depict that actual graphic quality of the game

This applies to half of the crap you see at E3.

Zetura Dracos · Post by **Zetura Dracos** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:32 pm

Do keep in mind that these are the same types of people who sue the city when they jump off of a pier labeled "NO SWIMMING" and crack their heads on a cinder block.

Retards are like Terminators, they absolutely will not stop until you are fucking dead. And by dead I mean, "Mentally blasted into a state of likewise retardation."

-Dracos

Thor Kaufman · Post by **Thor Kaufman** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:37 pm

It's not like ads are for information, or something. They are there to make stupid people buy shitty stuff and make ad companies rich. So, in conclusion the judge is even more stupid, or something?

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:43 pm

It's not like video games commercials on TV are common, atl east around here. I've seen some advertising for Splinter Cell and Prince of Persia, but only because they've been developped in Montreal.

Wolfman Walt · Post by **Wolfman Walt** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:46 pm

I suppose it depends on the TV channel. Alot of the bigger games get ads everywhere (Call of Duty did for instance) lesser games get relegated to audiences they know the game will appeal to, for instance, G4 viewers would be a prime example. Still, TV ads for video games are fairly common in civilized parts of the world.

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 5:59 pm

Listen...I hate to tell you but I'm English as well. I am the primary englishman now that teatime is dead as is Raymondo. And probably the other english posters like...?

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:11 pm

I'm lucky to live in a cultural haven. No MTV, no G4TV.

baby arm · Post by **baby arm** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:19 pm

Susan lives in a cave with Osama.

Koki · Post by **Koki** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:43 pm

Fuck it and them and CoD2 especially

Thor Kaufman · Post by **Thor Kaufman** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:55 pm

The yankee campaign won't load for me

Blargh · Post by **Blargh** » Tue Feb 28, 2006 10:17 pm

Hilarious.

Stainless · Post by **Stainless** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 2:34 am

baby arm wrote:Susan lives in a cave with Osama.

I'm sure Osama can't get enough of his MTV.

Koki · Post by **Koki** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 8:17 am

Thor Kaufman wrote:The yankee campaign won't load for me

BECAUSE YOU LIVE IN DEUTSCHLAND

Thor Kaufman · Post by **Thor Kaufman** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 9:00 am

Mein Gott, but I could play the other campaigns, was ist bloÃƒÆ’Ã…Â¸ falsch, es darf nicht sein

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 2:42 pm

Is there a WWII FPS or a even a mod where you can play as a fascist freedom fighter?

I'm getting bored of the yankeedoodle and brit accents.

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 3:19 pm

We all know little american boys want to be the good guys, and we also all know that Germans were BAD BAD BAD!!!

Redeye · Post by **Redeye** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 7:28 pm

Anybody know of a Cambodian Invasion mod for BF:VN?

I'd like to gut me some villagaz!

And then say it never happened.

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 9:19 pm

It would be fitting if they'd release an expansion where you'd have to defend your actions in a court of law. Just think of the possibilities; looking for loopholes in civil rights agreements, having buttsechs with the judge in his quarters, bribing the Jewish members of the jury or storming into the courtroom with a 9mm Parabellum.

"But I vas only taking ze ordars, herr Judge!"
"Zey looked like civilianz to me!"

Megatron · Post by **Megatron** » Wed Mar 01, 2006 10:42 pm

thers tsome fuckign gamer thwer youmplaynas a dead azi sldier an giht germans i dknt knwom knowhat sits caleled though you klll nazis and zokbmies thers a demo out

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