 Why havn't we seen this anywhere in SR?, ...or have I just missed it? |
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 Jan 22 2005, 02:25 AM
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Resident Legionnaire  Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,136 Joined: 8-August 04 From: Usually Work Member No.: 6,550  |
Here is a quote from an article I was reading (I'll link to where I got it, but I doubt it matters):
"5. Corporate name Las Vegas -- This city is missing out on a ton of revenue by not whoring out its name even more than it already does. Vegas could rent out the city's name every day to a different company. One day, we could be living in FedEx Las Vegas. The next, Nextel Las Vegas. If college football, with its corporate-sponsored bowl games, can be a whore, why can't Vegas?" from: How to Make a Better City This seems like just the thing that power-obsessed Mega-Corporate entities would LOVE to do. We could be running one day in the Ares-Seattle Metroplex, the next, in Saeder-Krupp Hamburg. |
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Jan 22 2005, 02:38 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,751 Joined: 8-August 03 From: Neighbor of the Beast Member No.: 5,375 |
Because then they'd have to take care of the day to day operating costs of running a CITY. It not a good investment. IIRC, there's been some talk of this before only on a nation wide scale.
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Jan 22 2005, 03:45 AM
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Resident Legionnaire Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,136 Joined: 8-August 04 From: Usually Work Member No.: 6,550 |
Sheesh, I must be horrible at putting my thoughts to the keyboard...
Think about it as when a company plasters their name on a football stadium. They do it for ADVERTISING. They don't actually own the stadium...sheesh. The company pays the stadium owners to put their label on it, and the owners run it like they always do. Just instead of being called George Washington Memorial Stadium or whatever, they call it "Mitsuhama Stadium" or what-not. Think the same thing, only with actual cities selling out their names. "Ares-Seattle: A Runner's Paradise" |
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Jan 22 2005, 03:52 AM
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Beetle Eater Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 4,797 Joined: 3-June 02 From: Oblivion City Member No.: 2,826 |
It might be frowned upon since corporations have near nation status, so it's more agnalogous to Russia-America.
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Jan 22 2005, 03:57 AM
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Resident Legionnaire Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,136 Joined: 8-August 04 From: Usually Work Member No.: 6,550 |
Oh well, I always figured there was so little nationalism anymore (in the 2060's) that nobody would really care :)
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Jan 22 2005, 04:26 AM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,453 Joined: 17-September 04 From: St. Paul Member No.: 6,675 |
I like it. I can definitely see Vegas doing this, maybe Reno and Atlantic City too.
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Jan 22 2005, 04:48 AM
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Prime Runner Group: Retired Admins Posts: 3,929 Joined: 26-February 02 From: .ca Member No.: 51 |
I think one of the reasons this hasn't shown up in Shadowrun is pretty simple: It wasn't really happening when the game was originally developed, and so it's built into the history that such sponsorship doesn't really happen ... it's one of those divergent history things that trouble near-future games.
It's certainly something that I could see happening, though ... perhaps not with huge cities, but smaller cities that are always struggling for money and to create jobs for their citizens? "Sure, we'll become Ares Fargo, if you build us a new car factory!" |
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Jan 22 2005, 05:03 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,430 Joined: 10-January 05 From: Fort Worth, Texas Member No.: 6,957 |
What? We're not just a few short years away from the Great Ghost Dance? But I've been waiting for so long! |
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Jan 22 2005, 06:56 AM
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I was just wondering why a corp would do this when they actually own areas big enough to be cities, or the eqv. to cities (Arcologies).
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Jan 22 2005, 10:04 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 276 Joined: 4-September 04 Member No.: 6,628 |
I know I've got MY fingers crossed. :D |
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Jan 22 2005, 05:38 PM
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Beetle Eater Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 4,797 Joined: 3-June 02 From: Oblivion City Member No.: 2,826 |
Maybe smaller corps that can't get ad time on the megamedia channels? Still, it's not unreasonable to expect roadways and subway/monorail lines to have corporate sponsors. Instead of the Blue Line you have the Boeing Line and Washington-245 becomes Geatronics-245. |
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