Yes! Keep killing your company faster. Can’t wait to see you go bankrupt.
The only way I could see this not being a complete shit-show is if they integrate them into the game in a way that makes sense, which has been done in places before. Banners along the roadside in a racing game (which exists in real life), a sci-fi hologram advertising “new-new-new coke, now with added element-320” as you walk by, etc
But since it’s EA we’re more likely to get an ad for hemmoroid cream during a loading screen, and the loading screen will be extended to ensure it plays the whole ad
Rainbow Six Vegas did it really well nearly 20 years ago. Lots of the ads and posters scattered around Vegas had real ads they’d change out. It really was more immersive.
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.
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
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
How about when they inevitably share user data with advertisers (assuming that isn’t the plan from the start)?
Loved the ones in Burnout Paradise. It had billboards for CompUSA. Which had liquidated almost all their stores shortly before the game released.
Head Tap Meme Can’t get called out by game reviewers if there’s no functional games media.
There’s very little decent media criticism of any kind left thanks to the ongoing media implosion, and games media is especially unprofitable.
I would be okay with cerveza cristal ads like they had in chile while airing star wars haha
Imagine the absolutely massive grave they would have themselves if we were still in the golden age of console gaming, I hope not any more than now
Hopefully they patent whatever method they use so that nobody else is tempted to make the same stupid mistake.
EA ads… it’s in the game!
pure gold… do they even use that slogan any more though?
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.
Mostly the same, although I did break my accidental EA boycott for Titanfall 2, It Takes Two and Tales of Kenzera.
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Of course they are, dystopian future novels are just manuals for business people.
Since advertisers are already paying for EA games, we need not buy them.
Seriously though, only thing capitalism breeds is enshittification.
If you were “being thoughtful” you wouldn’t even be considering it…
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…”
“thoughtful” is the en vogue corporate euphemism for “greedy!”
Yeah but have you heard of needful yet?
“being thoughtful” aka we’ll try to insert these ads into our games with the least amount of backlash from consumers but we’re definitely doing this dumb idea because we’re EA.
we’ll try to insert these ads into our games with the least amount of backlash
I wouldn’t even go that far. People think these companies care about backlash. They don’t. They only care about money. They’ll stop putting ads in games when consumers stop buying them. They’ll stop putting DRM, stop requiring 3rd party accounts, stop requiring first-party launchers, stop shoving microtransactions down your throat, and stop releasing broken games when gamers stop fucking buying them.
So it’s more like “we’ll insert as many ads as you will tolerate”.
And gamers and social media users have proven time and time again that there’s no amount of abuse that they won’t tolerate. So that’s what we’ll continue to get.
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.
Think of the shareholders!
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.
Corporations ruin everything.
I’ll be trying my hardest not to buy games from any major corporation. The indie devs have been nailing it lately anyway
I’m surprised that the billboards and stuff in games are not ads already. So many racing a FPS games that have scenery of billboards and stuff, it’s all prime real estate for ads.
I mean, I do remember T-Mobile and BurgerKing “sponsorships” in older Need for Speed games.
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.
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.
This is such an exaggeration that its legitimately funny. Maybe you’re periodically just on Lemmy or something, so you’re just unaware, but tons of people still love AAA games. Case in point: Starfield. Even that pile of garbage had tons of Bethesda shills defending it. Some of them were even on Lemmy.
You said it:
pile of garbage shills defending it
There are also people defending Nestle. You just got to search hard enough. Yet the consensus is still against it, especially compared to other companies, or here, games. Many smaller game studios or even indie devs are far more successful imo.
Yeah I’m not disagreeing with you, I think indie/small developers generally make better games than AAA studios these days. But this is what you said:
I believe I have never seen a modern AAA game that is not utter shit with EVERYONE complaining about it.
And I just think the utter absolutism you used there was funny.
