Link-tastic!:
Grimwell Online: Mmmmm Marketing
I'd heard this was happening, but this is the first time I've seen screenshots. I suppose in theory, it might be bearable, afterall, we filter out adverts everywhere in real life, and anyway, Anarchy Online always had in-game billboards, albiet advertising in-game backstory-based companies. I do find the idea of Motley Crue surviving 30,000 years into the future, and then going on a highly promoted comeback tour, very funny though. I get visions of their heads in jars, on barstools, Futurama style, and giggle a lot.
What's more interesting, for me at least, is if Funcom can actually afford to give the game away for free, and live only on advert money, and what compromises that will mean to the game. Expect another revisit and associated rambling some week soon.