Thoughts on enabling advertisements in exchange for Donuts?

If it is a banner in game; I would say no. If it were a product placement, sure. A week of Marge caring a Can of Cola; would not be bad, a new temp task, where Maggie get to use new pimper sponge diapers, would be OK. Public service message that Nuclear power is safe would ....... never mind he just blew up the town; that would never sell

datasurgeon wrote:
If it is a banner in game; I would say no. If it were a product placement, sure. A week of Marge caring a Can of Cola; would not be bad, a new temp task, where Maggie get to use new pimper sponge diapers, would be OK. Public service message that Nuclear power is safe would ....... never mind he just blew up the town; that would never sell

ROFLMAO!

(... Annette wipes coffee spray from iPad screen ...)

billconner441 wrote:
No. The game crashes enough as it is. Ads would only make it worse.

This ^ is what I think.

If it was something I could turn on and off, then maybe. But then how would they track it? There are players who have more than one device, so what if they have ads enabled on their tablet but not their phone?
I think the idea about viewing an ad elsewhere in return for a donut is better. It could be one of the options in the donut-buying menu. Maybe enter some sort of code that comes up after viewing it online, since I'm not sure all devices could watch all ads. Yeah, I'd do that.

What about people who already buy donuts? Why should we have our game lagged out or have to endure an ad banner just so the ungrateful leeches have something else to complain about? You know no matter how many they give for "free" the unwashed masses will still feel as if they are entitled to more.

Mjr1124 wrote:
What about people who already buy donuts? Why should we have our game lagged out or have to endure an ad banner just so the ungrateful leeches have something else to complain about? You know no matter how many they give for "free" the unwashed masses will still feel as if they are entitled to more.

Booom!!! totally agree. There's always gona be someone asking for more! Even if they do add this ppl will say they don't get enough donuts for watching a advert. U can't win so leave it ad free. (IMO) :lol:

Mjr1124 wrote:
What about people who already buy donuts? Why should we have our game lagged out or have to endure an ad banner just so the ungrateful leeches have something else to complain about? You know no matter how many they give for "free" the unwashed masses will still feel as if they are entitled to more.

What about the people who already paid for donuts? I already bought BOATLOADS. Who cares? There will be new content coming out for a while, so a few extra donuts never hurts. Especially if it benefits both sides. Nobody said you'd have to endure anything, because I clearly said if the ads were optional.

or we could 'complete offers' to gain donuts such as watch vids, signing up for random things, competeling surveys...etc

like The Sims, n Minon Rush'

I wouldn't want ads to intrude within the game itself, BUT if they had an option within the game to watch ad videos, for an exchange of doughnuts I'd be very happy with that. Honestly this would work for everyone, especially EA. However the sum of doughnuts would have to be at least 5 per ad. Hell, maybe they can even give more for longer ads. For example a one minute ad would give 5d, a 2-3 minute ad for 10d, and subscription based ads would be worth at least 20-25d.
If there's anyone from EA who looks at this thread, I hope they bring this up to someone who can maybe get this idea rolling. Or at least give us a reason why an idea like this wouldn't be feasible.