rec.autos.simulators

Dirt cheap as advertising rates go...

Jan.
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| Exactly.  Try pricing a magazine ad or similar.
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| >> Agreed, but $400????????
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| > Dirt cheap as advertising rates go...
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You get what you pay for (and sometimes less).  Exposure for a magazine add,
one would think, is considerably higher than exposure in a track for
rFactor.  I find it hilariously tragic the extent people will go in order to
make a dollar.  In the end it's all the same, and might be far worse for
those with an avaricious bent.  :)

Alanb

Surely this would be illegal without ISI's permission.  Any lawyers around
here?

Ok, a quarter page add in Elektuur (local monthly electronics magazine;
circulation about 7000): $500,- for 3 months.

This is for a year and, if the mod is any good, a lot more than 3500 people
will DL it over that time. The company/individual is also seen as supporting
the rF community. I still say it's a pretty good deal.

Jan.
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Larry enlightened us with:

"Someone" decides to sell updated track gfx, skies and road textures
for rFactor and gets CRUCIFIED for it, yet "someone" else offers up an
Ebay auction for track advertising on a totally fictional race track
and it's "a pretty good deal"??? Looking at the auctions as I type
this, the "winner" (I use that term loosely) will be paying $500 for
the "right" to advertise at Crossfire Speedway. Can Nextel be far
behind?

Someone correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't one of the many mentioned
"negatives" of rF the totally fictional basis of the cars and
locations? And don't forget the fact the sim racing world gurus openly
ridicule ovals and oval racing as the sport of simpletons. So perhaps
3500 downloads might be a bit of a stretch.

Now, looking at the Racecast "rRank", I see that there are 4928 drivers
registered. Of course there are some who haven't registered and there
are some who registered more than one name, so let's call the 4928 a
reasonable number of rF owners. That's over 2000 less than the
circulation of an electronics magazine that I have never heard of.

Yep, I guess I am wrong...this is the deal of the century!

As well as Indy Car II, Nascar 1 thru 2003 (and all in-between).

-Larry

You're forgetting one little thing, aren't you?  Not everyone who owns
rFactor will be playing this particular mod.  So your circulation numbers
are not exactly correct.

You could of course say the same thing about a magazine.  Not everyone who
buys the magazine will read it.  All in all, I don't particularly care about
this issue either way.  If money and more money and money no matter what is
what someone is after, then go for it.

It's not going to get you very far, in the end.

Alanb
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When I am racing I don't "see" any ads as they pass by and I don't buy
products soley because I see an ad for it. I like Dale Jr., but don't
like Bud, I am a Tony Stewart fan, but shop equally at Home Depot and
Lowe's. I am a huge M. Schumacher fan, but have never smoked a single
cigarette.

Your last statement sums it up pretty well, however.

Now again, just like movies, FORD, COKE, Malboro PAY money to have it be
their product IN FRAME...  (who knows how much mayeb not a lot) This has
been the achillies heel and oxymornic plot failure in our sims, that Chevy
or interstate batteries thinks it should be paid because the walking talking
racing bilboard is going to be seen "in game" and I never did get that
theory...