Anti-drink drive ads for Live Comments by Robert Purchese

The Day Today reference: +5 points.

including the 15-17 demographic in the stats: -5 points.

back to 0 then eg

last pun was brilliant.

/shakes head

So in games like NFS, where you're actively encouraged to break the law in many ways will be saying "Just don't do it drunk, that's all". Interesting message that sends out..

Presumably these will need Live to be actually working. We gonna get a news story on the the overall crapness of Live over the festive period then?

The new NFS isn't about street racing, estoo.

Drink driving is bad then while power-sliding and crashing is, er......good? Damn right!

But, in the words of Peter Griffin "what do they expect me to do, take a bus?".

What Mox said. Stupid amounts of Kudos to Rob for the reference!

Peej

does this include drinking while playing driving games?

/plans drink-driving game with extra-gory reality and trauma

/secures govt funding

There's a thread about this (submitted by me) last week in the forum.

http://www.eurogamer.net/forum_thread_po...

"Presumably these will need Live to be actually working. We gonna get a news story on the the overall crapness of Live over the festive period then?"

Why not report on that? I think this is a big story.

Because there hasn't been a press release to crib from silly!

"The adverts are said to be non-intrusive and subtle"

Easily ignored then.

It's cool to drive fast! Of course it's cool!

Presumably these will need Live to be actually working. We gonna get a news story on the the overall crapness of Live over the festive period then?

"Why not report on that? I think this is a big story."

Damn right - Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights Xbox Live time was totally borked - at least from a CoD4 point of view. Even playing other, single player games offline led to the console becoming a freezing stutterbox of annoyance whilst it was still connected via Ethernet cable.

The last couple of nights it seems to have been possible to get some CoD4 games after about 1am - but what fricking use is this to most people?

I won't launch into a diatribe about it being a paid-for service or the level of support that seems to have been provided over Christmas (next to zero), because there is a thread on the forums for that, but I will gladly register my interest in an EG News article about it, perhaps juxtaposing Major Nelson's comments about it being 'a bit broken but probably alright now' against the reality of staring at connection error, lobby closed and connection interrupted messages for about 80% of my night-time festive season playtime.

***holes.

Hey, I know... Lets make the warning on cigarette packs bigger!

"Hey, I know... Lets make the warning on cigarette packs bigger!"

If they made the cigarettes bigger those warnings could be like SIX FEET HIGH! XD

150 drivers aged under 25 were DUI over Xmas...

So that's 0.00000whatever percent of all drivers under 25, then?

Well worth a massive campaign, I'd say.

No, 150 drivers were *caught*, given that the percentage of cases that are actually caught is infinitesimal you can extrapolate it to any large number you like.

Aaaah... It reminds me of those "Winners don't use drugs" ads back in the Speccy days...

Yes, that really helped.

@ squarejawhero:

The ads are appearing in 2006's NFS: Carbon, not last years ProStreet.

"Damn right - Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights Xbox Live time was totally borked"

Did you take her for a drink on Tuesday? Possibly making love by Wednesday?

24 comments and not a single one about 360s crashing?

You guys disappoint me.

I dont want that shit on my games!

Hope ya can turn them off.