- vrighter ( @vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de ) 124•5 months ago
I will, in turn, be very thoutful about buying any of your games.
- Transporter Room 3 ( @Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website ) 29•5 months ago
If in-game ads become the norm, I guess I could either not play games anymore, or I could take my ship out onto the ocean.
There are more “lol fuck you” choices than there are “pretty please let me be bombarded with bullshit” options here.
- J'Pol ( @jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org ) 18•5 months ago
There are enough games that can be enjoyed bullshit free, that you’ll never have to buy a new game again.
- ThirdWorldOrder ( @ThirdWorldOrder@feddit.nl ) 5•5 months ago
People are already paying for ads in games. Look at American/European truck simulator where you pay to have Goodyear or whatever other company on your rig.
If they do it tastefully… like a coke can in a cafeteria which would make it more realistic than a generic brand - it could work.
They’ve been doing this in movies for decades.
If it’s shit like pop ups or little red notification dots, they can go fuck themselves with a rusty screwdriver.
- umbrella ( @umbrella@lemmy.ml ) 1•5 months ago
my ship sails the ocean because of shit like this for a while now. these people dont deserve money to nickel and dime us.
- r00ty ( @r00ty@kbin.life ) 35•5 months ago
EA Ads, they’re in the game!
- classic ( @classic@fedia.io ) 26•5 months ago
Oh no! If only there were thousands of other games I could play instead
- Artyom ( @Artyom@lemm.ee ) 21•5 months ago
Companies used to do this, but stopped when every game reviewer called them out on it. It was always in kinda shitty games too. You can rest assured that EA is fully capable of making shitty games with ads in them.
- Fogle ( @Fogle@lemmy.ca ) 6•5 months ago
I don’t mind it if it makes sense. Driving around in GTA if there’s a gap billboard I don’t care. I don’t want banner ads in the equipment menu though
- xthexder ( @xthexder@l.sw0.com ) 3•5 months ago
GTA is filled with parody ads, which are actually fun content and not intended to make you buy something. The second they become real ads, you’ll have brands complaining about being displayed next to gun violence or prostitutes, and all the fun goes away.
There’s a reason there’s no real car brands in GTA, because none of them want to be associated with running down pedestrian and drive-bys
- LostWon ( @LostWon@lemmy.ca ) 3•5 months ago
How about when they inevitably share user data with advertisers (assuming that isn’t the plan from the start)?
- frezik ( @frezik@midwest.social ) 3•5 months ago
Loved the ones in Burnout Paradise. It had billboards for CompUSA. Which had liquidated almost all their stores shortly before the game released.
- arefx ( @arefx@lemmy.ml ) 19•5 months ago
I will continue to not play EA games. Business as usual.
- Fixbeat ( @Fixbeat@lemmy.ml ) 16•5 months ago
I’m not even sure what games they make these days, but thoughtful is one thing these greedy corporate fucks are not.
- Sas [she/her] ( @Sas@beehaw.org ) 3•5 months ago
Only interesting game is Sims but even that is now finally getting competition
- 30p87 ( @30p87@feddit.de ) 15•5 months ago
To be fair, AAA games are bullshit anyways. I believe I have never seen a modern AAA game that is not utter shit with EVERYONE complaining about it.
- packadal ( @packadal@beehaw.org ) 6•5 months ago
God of war Ragnarok is a AAA game, and I absolutely loved it.
There, not everyone complains about all modern AAA games. Just in case you actually thought EVERYONE dislikes them, you might be in an echo chamber.
- Zeke ( @Zeke@kbin.social ) 15•5 months ago
I’ll be very thoughtful about avoiding EA games.
- jinarched ( @jinarched@lemm.ee ) 13•5 months ago
Let’s add EA to the list of companies I’m boycotting.
Oh? What a coincidence; it was already there.
- InternetUser2012 ( @InternetUser2012@midwest.social ) 13•5 months ago
The game better be free. I’m not paying to see ads. No chance. I’ll find a copy on the high seas that has that bullshit removed.
- xavier666 ( @xavier666@lemm.ee ) 13•5 months ago
EA: “If you want no ads, please buy our AAAA games”
- helenslunch ( @helenslunch@feddit.nl ) 1•5 months ago
Pretty sure that won’t be an option either
- DestroyMegacorps ( @DestroyMegacorps@lemmy.ml ) 12•5 months ago
EA is really pushing for their products to be pirated at this point like no one will put up with ads on their 60 bucks triple a game
- helenslunch ( @helenslunch@feddit.nl ) 12•5 months ago
If you were “being thoughtful” you wouldn’t even be considering it…
- Joe Cool ( @joe_cool@lemmy.ml ) 2•5 months ago
More like “We’ll do it but we feel REALLY bad doing it. We’re suffering more than you do. You should forgive us and give us money. We’re LITERALLY starving here…”
- applepie ( @applepie@kbin.social ) 9•5 months ago
Don’t buy EA! Easy solution.
- witty_username ( @witty_username@feddit.nl ) 9•5 months ago
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