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[lordcooper]

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/06/14/gamesgate-explain-freegames/

A short advertisement in exchange for free games?  This seems doomed to failure, but I'll be watching with interest.

[RF]

It seems doomed to dominate Steam, more like.

They'd be better off if they had an overlay and community like Steam, but oh well.

[Max White]

Sounds like Lockerz for gamers.

[Graven]

Sounds pretty reasonable, even if only to try out games before we buy them... if they offer more recent games. If not - sorry mates

[Rakonas]

They'd be better off if they had an overlay and community like Steam, but oh well.

Oh god no, the lack of facegame is why I usually use gamersgate.

[lordcooper]

It seems doomed to dominate Steam, more like.

Really?  I guess I'm just a little sceptical of the actual revenue generating potential of this.  Say a new game comes out for £40.  Am I really going to watch £40 worth of advertisements?

[freeformschooler]

It seems doomed to dominate Steam, more like.

Really?  I guess I'm just a little sceptical of the actual revenue generating potential of this.  Say a new game comes out for £40.  Am I really going to watch £40 worth of advertisements?

Yes. Turn your volume down. Minimize the window/open a different tab. Do this all day and free game.

[YouR_DooM]

It seems doomed to dominate Steam, more like.

Really?  I guess I'm just a little sceptical of the actual revenue generating potential of this.  Say a new game comes out for £40.  Am I really going to watch £40 worth of advertisements?

Yes. Turn your volume down. Minimize the window/open a different tab. Do this all day and free game.

In before quick-time events during commercials...

You have 3 seconds to answer this question to verify you are not a bot: 55/2.6... beep...beep...beep...

[freeformschooler]

Yeah, okay, you got me there.

[lordcooper]

It seems doomed to dominate Steam, more like.

Really?  I guess I'm just a little sceptical of the actual revenue generating potential of this.  Say a new game comes out for £40.  Am I really going to watch £40 worth of advertisements?

Yes. Turn your volume down. Minimize the window/open a different tab. Do this all day and free game.

Not quite what I meant.  If (as stated) there is only a short advert to watch when starting up a game, how many times would I need to boot this up to have watched enough adverts for GG to fairly charge the advertiser £40 for?

Google Adwords seem to charge advertisers around £0.01 per click.  Assusming that is standard, I would need to start up each individual game 4000 times for GG to make their £40.  That's not gonna happen.

[breadbocks]

Pay a bit more attention to the article; It's looking like you'll be limited to 5 a month, and it isn't their entire cataloge you can choose from.

[lordcooper]

Pay a bit more attention to the article; It's looking like you'll be limited to 5 a month, and it isn't their entire cataloge you can choose from.

I never stated otherwise.  That 4000 times playing estimate was per game.

[breadbocks]

Something tells me it isn't the big 40E titles that will be available. 5E indie titles? Sure. But not the big leagues.

[Tilla]

Note that Gamersgate is owned by a publisher (Paradox) - and frankly it doesn't REALLY cost them anything but bandwidth to get you their games - so they don't NEED to show you the full retail price of the game in ads - they just need to give you enough ads to make it worth their while - bandwidth + a bit extra. Anything above the cost of bandwidth is profit they wouldn't normally get unless somebody paid full price for their game.

[Rakonas]

Note that Gamersgate is owned by a publisher (Paradox) - and frankly it doesn't REALLY cost them anything but bandwidth to get you their games - so they don't NEED to show you the full retail price of the game in ads - they just need to give you enough ads to make it worth their while - bandwidth + a bit extra. Anything above the cost of bandwidth is profit they wouldn't normally get unless somebody paid full price for their game.

Gamersgate hasn't been owned by paradox for a while, actually. I'm pretty certain it split a while back.