What do you think of advertisements for real life products and services appearing in video games? Is it a good or bad thing? Would it influence you to purchase the product being advertised?
This isn't a very widespread phenomenon, as far as I know, but it is happening. The first time I heard of it being considered was in the early days of Phantasy Star Online. In one interview, one of the developers said they were considering putting billboards in the online game. I think they may have actually done it in a few quests, but I don't recall for certain.
I've been thinking about it again after renting the new Transformers movie game recently. I couldn't help but notice that almost every billboard in the game's cities was an advertisement for Helio cellphones. I don't care about the product, but the advertising was in so many places that there was no way to miss seeing it many times. Fortunately all the billboards could be thrown or destroyed, so I had some fun with that.