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Jeku said:
"No offense Shrap, but your site is like the only site I regularly visit so... it would be the site that might pop up."

It's like I'm talking to a wall. I said it *doesn't* log the sites you visit. How many times can I say the same thing over and over again

My bad, I wasn't refering to any comments. I was just making a facious joke. I haven't been following the posts so I didn't read yours. I was just making a generalized comment in an attempt at facious ironic humor.

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Suicide Junkie said:
Tracking sites you visit has no bearing on whether it is adware or not. It is the simple fact of having Ads built in.

Ads + software = Adware

You know we really need to point out that most of what we do now is tracked in one form or another from cell phone carriers to the GPS system in your car. That data is tracked, monitored, and sold. The cell phone industry tracks your colling paterns, cell sites signals to track your movements, and times of day or night that your phone is on and used. They then sell this info to ad companies who then stratigicially place bill boards in those high traffic routes and know when to call you on your phone for sales oppurtunities.

The GPS in your car is also used for the same thing. On Star was recently critizied for this. Cannot find the article or web site but I do recall hearing about it on the news a few months back.

[Yimboli]

Correct AT. I recall discussing this in an electronic navigation class in undergrad. If I find that stuff I'll post a link ...

[Combat Wombat]

On the 2142 note how can it make relevant in-game ads without tracking what you are doing on the internet. If it doesn't do that then it must just generate generic ads for everyone, if so then why does it need to do anything outside of run the game?

Exactly it does moniter what you are doing.

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Can you imagine a time when your playing a game and up pops an ad for the porn site you just accidently visited? ROTFLMAO... Or worse, your kid is playing Barnies Great Gay Cookie Monster Adventure with Big Bird and Erne and up pops an add for a porn site for which you are a paying member of. Can any one say "Moooooooooooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmeeee eeeeeeeeeeee!"

[RonGianti]

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/10/19

[Fyron]

Jeku said:
Like I said, I work at EA so I did my own little investigation when the game was released.

While I don't doubt that you did your investigation, that's not a verifiable source that all can refer to and, well, verify.

EA has to pay to keep their servers on, and given there is almost 100,000 players logging on every DAY, you can imagine that this gets expensive.

I can also imagine huge sums of money coming from all of those sales...

If they can not afford to run the servers (which I doubt), then they should charge to access the servers (or maybe charge to access "premium" servers and have free, but lower bandwidth/performance servers). Adware in a paid-for product is not acceptable.

In-game advertising is despicable in all forms. We are already overly saturated with a bombardment of advertisements everywhere else; we do not need games to fall prey to ad-whoring as well.

[Combat Wombat]

Are there still ads on non-ranked servers in which EA is not spending any money doing stat tracking? yes

Also its a bad trend what is happening in battlefield games where you have to play 100s if not 1000s of hours to unlock weapons and features that should have been available to you from the start. These features can only be obtained playing on ranked servers. But who cares more money for EA when you play their ad filled game...

Then the expansion packs, they make them even if theres still massive glaring issues in the orignal game that should never have been there to begin with. At least with MMO games you get the expansions for free almost all the time or you eventully get them for free if you wait long enough.

[Jeku]

You guys are hilarious. Ads have been showing up in games for *years*. Remember Space Quest V's Sprint logo? This isn't new. What's new is the ads update, so you don't get an ad for a car that's 5 years old.

Do you get upset when you see a coke can in a movie?

EDIT:

It's not like you have to sit through a commercial-- it's non-obtrusive. You pay for your cable TV every month but you still have commercials--- what do you do about that?

[Phoenix-D]

I don't pay for cable TV, that's what. And commericals are *exactly* why.