I don’t really mind if it doesn’t break the immersion or lower the quality of a game.
If it’s some unskipable add or some big billboards for Pepsi in a medieval game, I do mind.
Who… Buys… EA games? I haven’t given them a dime shit since they launched Origin.
Yeah fuck all that.
I’d be all for it if it meant the other shit would go away. I’d rather see Mountain Dew (instead of Altitude Precipitation or whatever) in the Sims if it meant no microtransactions and other annoying ads. But it’s EA, that’s not gonna happen, we’ll just get Mountain Dew in the Sims AND ads AND microtransactions.
U.S. Patent 8246454B2 is a real thing.
“I love it! That’s what’s been missing the whole time!” --EA Shareholders
Looks like another punishment for buying their games legally. Cracked versions don’t connect to their servers so they wont load ads.
Oh no, don’t make me not buy your product even more. I’m already at 0.
Maybe we can pre-order and cancel…
And they keep asking why many people resort to piracy. Nothing is owned these days; I feel like they also want me to pay for breathing next year.
“Fun” to see them go for it again. I remember they had ads in Battlefield 2 for Nvidia and Intel. I can’t quite remember if they said they wanted the ads to be dynamic all the way back then as well or if the one-and-done billboard were intended.
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If the game is not good on its own and requires ads to be profitable… Then it’s not worth buying anyway
Thinking in terms of “need” is wrong for a business. They aren’t there to make a good product and the money is just to cover all the costs. Their goal is profit maximization. If there’s profit they could be extracting, but aren’t, they won’t make the numbers bigger and the shareholders will be sad.
Ads are a gas. They expand to fill all available space. If there’s a place an ad COULD go, then it WILL go there eventually.
They could offer it for free instead with that.
Free games with MTX and ads and shit are all the rage anyway
Im still baffled by all the money some games make off cosmetics.
Cosmetics in paid loot boxes are a serious issue, but if you can make money to help pay for your game with non paid lootbox cosmetics, all the more power to ya, but i don’t understand it hah.
Honestly, anyone buying EA games deserve it.
Running through a bombed out kitchen in a ‘call of battle strike’ game, hesitate when I see the oven is full of condoms and the cabinets full of luxury watches.
You now have 300 condoms in your inventory and an intriguing side mission with your fellow soldiers.
EA you’re already known as the worst, you don’t need to prove the point any more…
Between them, Ubisoft, and Blizzard/Activision, it’s been a frantic race to the bottom.
Bethesda still manages to stay in the “honorable mention” category.
EA to my knowledge just has shitty business practices. Ubisoft at a minimum had a culture of sexual harrassers, possibly assaulters. Blizzard certainly had rapists. Ubisoft also with the pioneering always online DRM for single player games getting back to the games portion of their evils
UBISOFT is trying vie for that number 1 spot, they went so far as help produce a show on appletv+ to spread good propaganda bout itself.
Obviously not bad enough because people continue buying them.
games like diablo4(expansions) is what keeps people coming back to blizzard.
Which is pitiful, because D4 is just a giant MTX interface with some shiny graphics.
I think I haven’t played a single EA title in a decade, will continue to do so.
