Who… Buys… EA games? I haven’t given them a dime shit since they launched Origin.
Yeah fuck all that.
Looks like another punishment for buying their games legally. Cracked versions don’t connect to their servers so they wont load ads.
“I love it! That’s what’s been missing the whole time!” --EA Shareholders
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.
Oh no, don’t make me not buy your product even more. I’m already at 0.
Maybe we can pre-order and cancel…
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.
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
Bethesda still manages to stay in the “honorable mention” category.
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.
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.
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.
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“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.
Man, EA just fully doesn’t give a shit about making games anymore, eh?
They care very much about making games that get bought.
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.
Years ago there was an rpg based around skittles. Yes skittles. It was a banger, fun as hell. It also flopped because absolutely-fucking no one wants to play an advertisement.
Listen here EA - the world fucking sucks, no one is fucking happy. Can you just focus on making fun fucking things and not take a giant enshitification all over the one things most of us have to keep us from being on top of a water tower with a high powered rifle? Can we have ONE FUCKING THING??!
Weirdly enough, there’s been A FEW of these types of games that were based either on a specific product or a specific brand, and they were for the most part, weirdly well done for the times they released in and actually sorta fun.
Off the top of my head, Pepsiman for a specific product and the whole lot of Lego games if we’re talking about a whole product line.
I think that whole genre is called advergames
Chex Quest was legitimately good, but mostly because it was just a Doom mod
I think legos are in their own genre no matter what. That’s like advertising a game franchise.
Those Xbox burger king games were legitimately fun…
Sneak king!
That was one of them… Weren’t there two others but I agree sneak King was the best.
Sneak King was fun but, sorry not sorry, Pocketbike Racer was the best. No clue what the third one was.
I am genuinely surprised none of the freaks around here have mentioned the KFC dating sim yet.
Sometimes I forget that the LEGO games are just really fancy ads.
The Dungeons and Dragons idle game has a champion that is composed of Nerds candy pieces. It’s actually a fun character concept because you can switch the nerds around to different colors, each one with a different class that changes how their mechanics work. But it’s just so weird seeing candy you can eat alongside Drizzt Do’urden that I never use them.
Candystand.com games went crazy back in the early 2000’s
The old Kellogg’s game from mid 90’s was really clunky, but it was great fun as a <10 year old not knowing any better!
That Nerf clone of Unreal Tournament was dope
The packaging for the game really tried to hide it was an advertisement game. Title is Darkened Skye which says nothing about it being a skittles game.
Apparently the singular of skittles is “Skittles” according to that game
Hell, 7up had a platformer. Wasn’t a bad game
*Pepsi Maaaaann!*
Those drink ad games were a fever dream.
That Xbox BK game, Domino’s Noid game, I think 7up had an othello clone.
The best game that was just an advertisement was Chex Quest. But, I mean, they hired some teenagers who loved Doom to make the game and gave them little to no oversight other than “explain what a healthy breakfast is and include Chex cereal.” So they just made a kick-ass Doom clone that only marginally advertises the cereal.
Unfortunately, Andrew Wilson needs more money to purchase more kidnapped children from Asia.
Ventrue Princes gotta Ventrue Prince.
Cool Spot was my jam but I still drank Sprite
I can’t wait to shoot my way around war torn half destroyed cities with pristine advertising signs in the next Battlefield.
