Guild Wars 2

Just a humorous idea that popped into my head would be a very limited selection of RL items/businesses that might be well received in GW2. Having my character, as my virtual avatar, drinking a cup of coffee and eating a couple donuts before a hard day of exploring, fighting, running …. (cough) … in a new direction, etc etc etc. Well I think it would be rather amusing.

And frankly Anet needs to have a good revenue stream or else it folds the game up and moves onto something else. Having a strong revenue stream is useful for the company and could be entirely ignored by a large percentage of the gaming population who simply don’t care about it. But for those who are amused by the idea it would provide something interesting in-game.

Am I suggesting bottles of Pepsi be a loot drop? No because that would break the first rule which is to have a system that is entirely opt-in. I am suggesting selected vendors with stores in selected locations where players who go there can get items that are available IRL.

And of course YMMV. Now. Flame on!

Dunkoro Donuts

To be direct, I really dislike this idea. I don’t want to see real-world brands referenced in-game. (Other than the occasional reference to GW2 and Anet, for obvious reasons.)

I don’t demand that the game world be perfectly realistic, or completely immersive, but I want the exceptions to be for the sake of fun and fantasy, not product placement revenue. There’s really no amount of “opt-in required” that works for me, because those items and brands are going to spill out into my experience just the same, from people linking their brand items in chat to official marketing messages. Any volume low enough that I won’t mind it isn’t a volume that’s worth them running a tie-in campaign for.

Gnat.9405:

Dunkoro Donuts

Darn you—Don’t make me enjoy this idea.
+1

You know I was just thinking to myself the other day we need to get corporations involved in even more things in this world. We don’t get nearly enough brand naming everywhere else.

On a serious note, why do you need to eat dunkin donuts rather than just some generic donuts?

Koss' Krispy Kreme Consortium

Tahlkora's Tantalizing Tarts

Cynnabon

Pyre's Pastry Palace

Mhenlo's Menagerie of Marmalade Muffins

Gwen’s Groceries

General Morgahn Rum

Olvendred.3027:

General Morgahn Rum

my never-sober norn engineer would love this

Real world product advertising doesn’t work in anything but an MMOs in a contemporary setting. Maybe a game like The Secret World but any fantasy or scifi setting it would be out of place.

Have you seen the recent Explorer’s clothing? All it needs is a whip you can equip and a pistol and you’re set.

They look more WWII German Afrika Korps than what an archaeologist would wear.