disgusting. it doesn't surprise me. publishers are continously testing how much their customers can bend over.
this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2023
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Gamers continue to buy the games by publishers that do this and will continue to put up with it as they slowly boil like frogs.
It's difficult to fight the slow conditioning that started with horse armor and Farmville. There's no escaping it until we replace capitalism with something better.
The problem with the boiling frog metaphor is they would only stay in the water after being lobotomized.
Actually that makes perfect sense, carry on.
They are doing fucking what?!
The only ads I want in my video games are in-world lore appropriate ones. Like the biomechanical penis implant ad from Omikron: The Nomad Soul.
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Enshitification going so hard I wouldn’t even pirate it.
But who am i kidding, the pirated version will likely have this crap removed, better performance without denuvo and all exclusives unlocked. Yarrrr
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What did you expect from a company whose logo is a turd seen from above!
I already don't buy Ubisoft games. Which of you spineless lukes is bankrolling this crap?
I'm so behind companies doing this because too many people accept ads in every other part of their life and then act surprised when they get more ads showing up. It would be nice if this stuff woke people up.
You can't pick and choose. You have to reject all ads. They're a cancer we let it metastasize
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Take it back...call it defective. Fuck that shit, I don't care how good the game is, they're not getting my money ever again.
Yet another reason to continue my boycott of Ubisoft.
I wouldn't say I'm consciously boycotting Ubisoft, personally. But I sure as hell haven't bought one of their games for a long time, and with the way they've been going as a company in general, I can't see myself buying anything from them in the near future. If they do release something worth buying then I'll consider it, though.
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In other news: Ubisoft's revenue are up 14% year on year in September
but there's no good reason for studios to insert ads in the middle of a game
"Au contraire!"
— Ubisoft, highly likely.
The marketer's nightmare is that whenever you exploit a new vector to target consumers with ads, whenever you invent a new commercial style to which adults are responsive, you are simultaneously instilling resistance into their kids so they will grow up largely immune.
And if it's particularly invasive or annoying (such as interrupting fun to ad at them) they'll hate your company for the ads more than they like the product.
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