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.
They been doing that with Need for Speed for decades. Surprised they didn’t spread it to the rest of the company earlier.
Their sports franchises have similar in-game ads matching the real world in how they are presented in the stadiums.
That is thoughtful and people didn’t complain… They now want to shove in your ass and make you suck verification dick whle at it to ensure 100% engagement
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.
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
Fuck you EA.
thoughtful
Thinking about all the money that could be in his bank account.
I’ll be very thoughtful about avoiding EA games.
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”
These games are trash anyway. Adding ads wouldn’t change much.
Would you say all games with mtx are trash? No one stops the suits from picking an amazing game and force ada into them, same with mtx.
Ya for the most part. They always design the game around squeezing you and pressuring you into buying shit.
None of the games I play have ads or MTX. Just pure unadulterated gaming.
So, like mobile games? Got it.
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.
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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”
late stage capitalism goes
brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Sounds great! I’ll know exactly which products to never purchase
Yes! Keep killing your company faster. Can’t wait to see you go bankrupt.
If you were “being thoughtful” you wouldn’t even be considering it…
“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.
“thoughtful” is the en vogue corporate euphemism for “greedy!”
Yeah but have you heard of needful yet?
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…”
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
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.
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.
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.
