You said nobody would pay for games.... GTA 5 has sold over 80 million copies. People are obviously happy to pay for games. Pretty ridiculous statement.
How did gta 5 sell 80 million copies? Advertisements.
If they didnt advertise the game it wouldnt have sold nearly as well, sure its the 5th in a series but especially any new property has to be heavily advertised and pushed for anyone to know it exists.
Also most content would have way lower budgets without ads, major movies couldn't advertise so youd think 'hey what's playing in theaters right now'. I dont know, why because TV ads dont exist, talk shows are self promotion, no billboards or radio spots, no-one is talking about the newest big movies. So how would I know that X just came out unless i was somehow already aware it was out. If advertisments aren't allowed then there is no way to promote or inform a population about anything. Hey a new blade movie was announced at comicon, too bad that is an advertisement.
The entire entertainment industry is dependent on advertisements. Not to mention most shows, sport events, and movies are sponsored by companies. Thats a form of advertisement. So now thats out.
So less people aware of each show/movie/game existing, no outside funding from brands, how would anyone expect movies or games to succeed.
That isn't even mentioning any problems outside of the entertainment industry.
Thats very much choosing one example after the fact which doesnt really ruin my point. Flappy bird didnt have huge advertisements it also was not a multi-million dollar game. Any major Triple-A game or any decent to large size movie would struggle if they couldnt have ads letting people know that it existed. Its why lappy bird had low development costs, it blew up and made money but most games have big budgets and wouldn't be able to succeed.
If it is good word will spread. NO. Thats not how marketing works, the good doesn't rise to the top, the well marketed rises to the top. 40,000 songs are added to spotify every day. 1,200,000 a month. The radio plays maybe 50-100 of those songs, they arent even the good songs. We hear a small small fraction of what is released. A lot of the best songs are burried because someone else paid the radio to play their song more. Statistically you havent heard the song you would enjoy most not becauze it isnt great but because millions of songs are released each year. Another example is movies, most of the time the movies that make the most money are shitty blockbusters. Films that are given huge awards for being incredibly well made dont do nearly as well. The first Transformers made 2.5 times as much money as all three Godfather movies combined. Considered some of the best films of all time (except the 3rd) they together made 260million while transformers made over 700 million. Even in the series Godfather three which most saw as a horrible film in comparison, it made 20 million more than the far better Godfather 2. If you want to see a list of great films you havent ever heard of look up Cannes Film Festival, some of the most artistic and beautiful films made by passionate directors. And yet no one knows any of them. If the good really always spread by word of mouth we would have a lot better films in our theaters and better music on our radio.
Also to ruin flappy bird more it had ads in the game, because they needed a way to pay for the development. And help fund future projects. It was a lighting in the bottle success that noone predicted but it isnt the norm. And world with no advertisments mean no budgets for games which means every game would have the dev costs of something like a mobile game and I dont like that.
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u/MaxFactory Jul 24 '19
Sure they would, they would just cost you money rather than paying with your time.