In-Game Advertising Comes to Board Games

Grooves writes "Monopoly is getting rid of paper money in favor of credit cards. From the article: 'The new card, which resembles a debit card, is inserted into a small plastic reader/writer that can display and update the balance on the card. Traditional money is gone altogether, though purists can still purchase the original version.' Does this mean the end of complex Monopoly games where I charge grandma interest to borrow money?"

Who's the banker?

[wombert]

Now how will I cheat?

Damn, there goes MY winning strategy...

[nweaver]

Damn, there goes my winning strategy: Embezzlement!

Its amazing how much easier Monopoly is to win when you steal a few $500s from the bank before the start of the game...

Unless I hack the reader... Hmmmm.

Re:Who's the banker?

[bigtrike]

Credit card fraud. Go to jail - do not pass go!

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Re:stacks of money

[Anonymous Coward]

...and paying your Boardwalk rent in 1's...

Blast from the past

[rockchops]

What? People still play this horrible game? It's a nightmare form a game design perspective! The winner of the game is decided so early on in play, 80% of the time spent playing the game is virtually pointless because everyone can tell who is going to win (unless he/she makes an incredibly dumb trade or someone cheats).

At least if they're going to upgrade the game aesthetics, why not change the name to "Microsoft: The Game"?
*runs and hides*

The old game is still there

[RyoShin]

If you old fuddy-duddies can't wrap your head around these elecomotronics, Parker Brothers is still offering the cold hard cash version.

However, I hope that they keep the currency version around for a long time. To a kid, having large wads of paper in front of yourself to show off and rub the fact that you're winning in the other players' faces. If everyone has the same boring card, that just makes things even, now doesn't it?

Also, if they stop the cash edition, I won't be able to fulfill my dreams of filling a room with monopoly money and swimming around in it ala Scrooge McDuck.

Oh, the humanity...

[14erCleaner]

What's next, identity theft?

For everything else

[Jonathunder]

Take a ride on the Reading: $25

A house on Atlantic Avenue: $150

The look on your brother's face when he lands on Park Place with four houses: priceless.

Great!

[Reality Master 101]

And it's educational, too! Who doesn't charge their rent on a credit card? It's good, sound personal fiscal policy, the kind of lesson that I want my children to learn!

Hmm

[Anonymous Coward]

At least it not paypal -- you could be winning the game and have your funds frozen for suspect activity.

Re:Identity Fraud?

[eln]

No, but every time you land on a space owned by another player, they'll run a credit check on you before you are allowed to stay there.

Are you sure you're in the right place?

[Bill, Shooter of Bul]

Crack the card reader!!! Simply program it to send the fractional pennies left over from every transaction into a seperate account linked to yours. No one will every notice their money is gone!

Re:Easier to cheat!

[Phroggy]

If you're embezzling the bright pink notes instead of the gold ones, that might explain why you're not winning.

Damn it...

[The-Bus]

They make a paper money version? I wish someone had told me sooner.

I've been playing the "Monopoly: Yap Edition" from Micronesia. Keeping track of and moving hundreds of giant stone discs is not as fun as it sounds. Passing Go! is usually seen as physical punishment, not a reward. Toes get stubbed. Basically, after about 15 minutes, everyone gets too exhausted to keep going.

Re:My reaction

[dominique_cimafranca]

Monopoly the boardgame + American Express = new tagline:

"Don't leave home."

Re:Who's the banker?

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Now how will I cheat?

Google search: Diebold Voting Machines.

Opening the door for new strategies

[SalaciousPucker]

IF they are going to update they economics of the game, they should go all out..... You can buy Park Place with a 7 turn interest only ARM, inflate the profits using mark-to-market accounting and dump all the loses to a dummy corp setup under the Thimble. Genius!

Re:Are you sure you're in the right place?

[masterzora]

Just be sure to watch those decimal points...

Re:Absolutely Shocked

[snowgirl]

Legally, Visa comprises four non-stock, separately incorporated companies that employ 6000 people worldwide: Visa International Service Association ("VISA"), ...

Hey! They can't use self-recursive acronyms, that's a GNU patent!

Re:Are you sure you're in the right place?

[deathy_epl+ccs]

I'm always screwing up some mundane detail...

Re:Finance Charges

[prockcore]

Every other round someone hassles you about signing up for overdraft protection.

Re:Who's the banker?

[Anonymous Coward]

Counterfeiting [hasbro.com]

Re:Are you sure you're in the right place?

[dotgain]

Before you know it some mundane detail will be screwing up YOU!

(in soviet, federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison)

Re:lame

[WWWWolf]

Yep, I was guesstimating this as "people actually play Monopoly by rules?" The way we played it, everyone just bought stuff until everything was bought, after which game continued until every street was bought, after which you could buy just about anything you damn well please at any player's turn, no one knows whose turn it really is, and the game ends when everyone's bored again.

Seconded about Carcassonne. That game rocks. =)

Re:The Best Cheat

[Valacosa]

"I owe you $8, hm? Well, will you give me a $10 if I give you the $2 change?"

This worked on me...four days ago. In my defense, I was really tired and not paying attention at the time. And hey, at least I got an awesome photo of my friends laughing at me.

Re:Then...

[geminidomino]

You bastard!!!!!

-bash-3.00$ monop
Now installing Windows XP...