Comments on: Google launches AdSense for Games

More than a year after its $23 million purchase of AdScape Media, the search giant finally gets into the crowded in-game advertising field.

[jef5623]

Adsense is going to be there for ever, On our Site www.holidayrental.com we experienced that users always click those ads that are of most revelance to the search term on which they landed. if Google keeps the relevancy in check, adsense for games is also going to be a massive Hit.

[noadsingames]

I refuse to purchase any games that contain advertising. If a game I currently use, does start advertising, I will delete it from my computer and find a company that does not and use there games. I hate how much advertising has entered into my life and any new form of it will force me to change my spending habits. As an example.... I dont watch T.V anymore. I only rent movies or use one of the services like HBO, CINEMAX, SHOWTIME and so forth.

[noadsingames]

I refuse to purchase any games that contain advertising. If a game I currently use, does start advertising, I will delete it from my computer and find a company that does not and use there games. I hate how much advertising has entered into my life and any new form of it will force me to change my spending habits. As an example.... I dont watch T.V anymore. I only rent movies or use one of the services like HBO, CINEMAX, SHOWTIME and so forth.

[benjimen]

I don't think this article refers to for-purchase games. I believe they're talking about free online games.

[mynameiscoffey]

I think the idea noadsingames is that this is going to be used for FREE games (I agree wholeheartedly on ones I pay for).

I think its a great way for publishers to get paid for their product while people can be cheap and expect to not pay for anything they receive. Just hope this keeps in the realm of FREE games and doesn't start popping up everywhere in the ones that I pay for...

[playswfgames]

I think its good for google and adsense to expand (even though its allready massive)
and its good for arcade owners like myself ( www.playswfgames.com)
my site is very new and it would help i also run mochi ads which is ads in games and i think this is a partnership between google and mochi, see here:
http://mochiland.com/articles/extra-extra-mochi-media-partners-with-google-to-further-monetize-your-games

- playswfgames.com

[gonumber2539]

Amazing, we put a man on the moon in the 1960s and it is 2008 and people are getting exctited because a well funded company is able to work out that placing advertisements in games may be profitable. Why is it that there is so little technical and business innovation today, despite the amount of money. Why not simply CHARGE for the games? The appalling (and I mean appalling) quality of the games for the iPhone on the App store is why fee based products will normally be better. Why? a) People are more likely to pay for something of quality - therefore funding the developers. b) Advertisements are distracting and may influence the ethics of the game play. I have no problem with paid in game advertising - but have a problem with the lack of innovation in todays world. Even the image recognition in Google's Picassa does not work. It has failed to pick out or identify most of the photos I have imported into our family gallery. For true world changing innovation, check out Space X or some of the solar panel manufaturers in the valley.

[KrunkAttack]

I don't mind that there's advertising in games.... as long as it's not intrusive.