Ad Biz Talk Virtually Absent From Gamer Confab

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Virtual goods have a bright future in the explosive social gaming segment. But does advertising? Not based on comments from several of the industry’s biggest players.

Advertising was hardly mentioned during the early sessions of the New York Games Conference today, as several analysts and industry leaders laid out their predictions for the gaming industry over the next few years. When the subject of monetization came up, virtual goods and other forms of microtransactions were mentioned as the primary business model for social games — at least in the near term.

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