Way to keep Planeshift free

[MetallicSphere]

In order to keep cost of running planeshift as low as possible i suggest the PS team allows people like pepsi or coke or whomever would like to put ads in the form of bulletin boards.
This was as u walk thru town u see ads for like pepsi or sumtin. And pepsi would pay PS and that we WE dont have to pay PS :-D
good idea?

[Bill]

1: I, for one, do not want Pepsi adds in MY town!

2: Pepsi and Coke would never even care about PlaneShift because us compared to them is like a poor person\'s money compared to Bill Gates\' money. (mind you, I am not saying PS is bad)

[Kendrick]

I wouldn\'t mind a in-game adds... maybe not those big blue pepsi adds, maybe if they made it to fit the game

I\'m SURE any company would love to get their adds seen by 1000\'s of players a day

[Bill]

Maybe your right. Don\'t mind the last comment.

[MetallicSphere]

Im not saying that pepsi or coke would want to (im using them as examples) i mean places like gamespy or sumtin would most definetly want to put ads in town and such. u could even script NPCs to go up to large display boards in town and past the new ads up  
it might take down gameplay a bit but come on we want PS free eh? its definetly worth having to look at ads to keep something liek thise free.

[antonio842]

so what your saying is the adds would be like on banners in town
towns that are in the game

or

that there would be adds like on the side

[corsairk8]

I dont particularly like that idea, its not very roleplay like. It probably wouldnt make much money because it would be difficult to track clicks or views like with webbased advertising.

[Buechler]

Trust me If you make Banner Ads mandatory to click they\'ll work.    Once the full Planeshift game is ready to download their may be thousands of accounts; and if they all clicked the banner ads 3 times a day, there\'d be NO problem.

Another option is to get cheap servers only holding 100 players at the most, from friends.  

The Main Goal= To have Planeshift free

[Bill]

Buechler, if you haven\'t realized, clicking an add gives them about $0.01. And its not like you can go freakishly clicking around because lots of banner adds only count them every few hours. So its about 99.9% sure that sorta won\'t work.

[MetallicSphere]

Well ads in game may reduce roleplaying BUT it also gets rid of paying for the game. I know another mmorpg (that costs money) is doing this. http://www.neocron.com

[Kiern]

eh? why not just put this on the same post instead of spreading it out on different boards and different threads?

[Lenric]

I can see the bonus of having sponsers but at the same time can see problems due to the distraction really I think it is a good idea if ps has backers willing to support it but i think it would bring to many disney roleplayers and flack if the game had in game boards stating pepsi or coke now this might work as a sideline or bar banner but in game come there would be all sorts of people talking ooc in game using the pepsi coke image as a statement Hey i can talk about computers the game why not it isnt like tthis is a real roleplaying game i mean look at that big add for pepsi right there ( I do love pepsi though ).

Lenric

[soca playa]

EVERYONE CLICK THE ADDS!!!
WAIT... DO WE EVEN HAVE ANY ADDS?

[soca playa]

actually my friends dad\'s best friend in mississippi owns like 5 tv stations and is a multimillionaire and has a freaking server in her house!!! last time i was there she said she didnt want to worry bout all that internet crap, now she has a server and doesnt even know how to use it.

Maybe you could buy it, or use it.

[Malastare]

Originally posted by soca playa
actually my friends dad\'s best friend in mississippi owns like 5 tv stations and is a multimillionaire and has a freaking server in her house!!! last time i was there she said she didnt want to worry bout all that internet crap, now she has a server and doesnt even know how to use it.

Maybe you could buy it, or use it.

should u tell the PS team how they can contact them?!?!