User blog comment:Duskey/Ingame advertising, where will it end?/@comment-1519608-20100618013256

OT how do you get around the launcher?

I hope you're wrong, but I'm sure that it will come eventually. At the least, I can see them putting ads on in-game posters and billboards - at worst, I fear product placement (I don't want my Sims to crave McDonald's, OK?). Minor voluntary PP is fine to me - allowing users to download Ford cars, for example, doesn't bother me since it's voluntary. Even releasing stuff packs based on a company's goods is ok (although I don't like the concept of stuff packs) since it's all voluntary. But when the game is manipulated to allow direct in-game ads with no opt-out, it irritates me a little bit.