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[–] vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de 210 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I will, in turn, be very thoutful about buying any of your games.

[–] Transporter_Room_3@startrek.website 35 points 6 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] jawa21@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 6 months ago (2 children)

There are enough games that can be enjoyed bullshit free, that you'll never have to buy a new game again.

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[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 88 points 6 months ago (3 children)

“We’ll be very thoughtful about how to absolutely maximize our profits from this”

I mean, they’ve already been getting revenue from product placements in their sports games, many of which sell at or near AAA prices already.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 43 points 6 months ago (5 children)

To be fair, advertising in sports games is essentially expected. Advertising is all over the place in real world sports.

We all know that's not what EA is talking about here though. They 100% are trying to figure out how to get that sort of advertising into other shit where it doesn't fit well. You know they'd put real world ads into a single player Star Wars game right now if they could get away with it.

[–] joekar1990@lemmy.world 21 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It’s like how product placement in movies started off super small. Now sometimes it just fucking smacks you in the face where you think is this movie legitimately just an ad?

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[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 73 points 6 months ago (3 children)

"Our research shows that we can fill up to 82% of the visual field before inducing seizures!"

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[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 67 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ohhh so games will be cheaper because they'll be subsidized right?... right?..

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 51 points 6 months ago

EA Ads, they're in the game!

[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 43 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Feel free. I stopped playing EA games and AAA titles years ago. You all enshitificated it enough as it is that I left awhile ago. Adding ads will only harden my resolve to never pick up another title.

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[–] classic@fedia.io 37 points 6 months ago

Oh no! If only there were thousands of other games I could play instead

[–] chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world 36 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Oh, ok. I haven't bought an EA game in over a decade, and the one that I was gifted ended up being broken and nearly unplayable, so I'll just continue abstaining from them.

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[–] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 32 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Fuck EA. I'll never forgive them for Westwood.

[–] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Hell yeah, and maxis, them ruining command and conquer and sim city is unforgettable. I hope EA as a company burns to the ground.

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[–] Artyom@lemm.ee 31 points 6 months ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] arefx@lemmy.ml 31 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I will continue to not play EA games. Business as usual.

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[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 31 points 6 months ago (7 children)

So we will have to instal ad blocks for video games?

[–] AlternatePersonMan@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago (4 children)

We should be so lucky. Plenty of games (and movies) already have ad placements. The NHL recently added fucking banner ads with motion to the boards. I can't even watch that shit anymore.

Firefox doesn't have an extension for that yet.

Fuck. Advertising.

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[–] circlescience@lemmy.world 29 points 6 months ago

To be fair, the ads might bring a sense of pride and accomplishment to the game.

[–] jinarched@lemm.ee 29 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Let's add EA to the list of companies I'm boycotting.

Oh? What a coincidence; it was already there.

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[–] sweaterpuppys@lemmy.world 29 points 6 months ago (2 children)

EA ads..... it's in the game!

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[–] Zeke@kbin.social 27 points 6 months ago

I'll be very thoughtful about avoiding EA games.

[–] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 25 points 6 months ago (6 children)

It's only a matter of time before this leaks into all AAA games, I hate capitalism.

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[–] SteefLem@lemmy.world 25 points 6 months ago

late stage capitalism goes

brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I remember the days when games were 30 dollars, had a couch co-op mode, and a full single player campaign made by a team of just a few people.

Now we require in-game ads to sustain the development cost of the games? Somethings wrong with AAA if that's the case.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 13 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I don't think there's any claim that it's to sustain the dev costs. This is a "dear shareholders, prep your cocks for a tuggin' " pitch.

I'd expect more paid ads in the likes of Madden and not-FIFA.

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[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 23 points 6 months ago (2 children)

EA: "If you want no ads, please buy our AAAA games"

[–] UsedRealNameB4@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

For a low low price of 250$ you can buy the deluxe ultimate season pass starter edition of the game which includes only banner ads instead of video

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[–] InternetUser2012@midwest.social 20 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago

It may not be, because no amount of money is ever enough for a wealthy neoliberal. You could pay $200 in pure profit for a game and there will still be slimy executives saying "We could make that $201 if we showed them ads and $202 if we sold their data"

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[–] mrfriki@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago

Haven’t bought a EA or Ubisoft game in the last ten years or more. They can put all the ads they want on their games.

[–] gap_betweenus@lemmy.world 19 points 6 months ago

Of course they are, dystopian future novels are just manuals for business people.

[–] DestroyMegacorps@lemmy.ml 18 points 6 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

[–] rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee 17 points 6 months ago (3 children)

They been doing that with Need for Speed for decades. Surprised they didn't spread it to the rest of the company earlier.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 16 points 6 months ago

In the right context it doesn't necessarily hurt immersion. We've come to expect car racing to be filled with ads because car racing initially was an ad.

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[–] SomeGuy69@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (5 children)

All big games will have this from now on. Same as with microtransactions, very few have non anymore.

Next will be: "Watch X more ads, to speed up the grind"

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[–] 30p87@feddit.de 16 points 6 months ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] applepie@kbin.social 16 points 6 months ago

Don't buy EA! Easy solution.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 16 points 6 months ago

If they were very thoughtful then they'd already realize that it's a stupid-ass idea.

[–] TIMMAY@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago

That's it, that's the final straw for me. I'm a socialist now.

[–] aluminium@lemmy.world 14 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Anyone remembers the In-Game Billboards in their older racing games like NFS and Burnout?

[–] xavier666@lemm.ee 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Fun fact, Euro Truck Simulator 2 has mods which adds billboards with regional ads. Players are voluntarily downloading mods which adds ads for more emersion. The default ads were not enough. It helps that the dev, SCS Software, is not a dickhead and has supported the game for more than a decade with good DLCs with virtually no problems.

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[–] witty_username@feddit.nl 11 points 6 months ago

AAA: Acquire An Advertisement

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

I'm getting burnout paradise flashbacks

[–] farken@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

If you sign up for super subscription++ we promise not to drain your blood while you play our games.

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