EA wants to place ads in full-price games, again
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Speaking during the company's latest earnings briefing, EA CEO Andrew Wilson said in-game advertising could become a "meaningful driver of growth" for the firm.

EA has tried this before, with predictable results. In 2020, EA Sports UFC 4 included full-screen ads for the Amazon Prime series The Boys that would appear during ‘Replay’ moments. These were absent from the game when it launched, with EA introducing the ads about a month later, thereby preventing them from being highlighted in reviews. It wasn’t long before the backlash led to EA disabling the ads.

  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Fellow gamers, now is the time to push back on this crap. If you don’t do it now, you’ll live with this forever. They tried doing this in past generations as well, and failed.

    Spread the word, tell others. Be vocal! Advocate for this not happening.

    And if someone tells you that this isn’t preventable, tell them not to be cynical. Remind them of the other positive changes we were able to have happen recently in gaming, and that in the past when they tried this, the pushback was successful in keeping the gaming companies from doing so.

    And remember, some of those you would try to convince are probably astroturfers/bots.

    (https://lemmy.world/comment/9975178) (https://lemmy.world/comment/9975178)

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