Looks like another punishment for buying their games legally. Cracked versions don’t connect to their servers so they wont load ads.
Oh no, don’t make me not buy your product even more. I’m already at 0.
Maybe we can pre-order and cancel…
“I love it! That’s what’s been missing the whole time!” --EA Shareholders
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.
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.
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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.
TV timeouts during the quarters of Madden games. They’ll do a skippable halftime recap then 5 minutes of unskippable ads. Make it like a real NFL broadcast.
Whenever they do something like this it’s just a nail in the coffin for me and I am that much less incentivized to ever buy their games
Didn’t we stop allowing overt advertising in movies and music videos for a reason?
When did that happen?
I’m also wondering the same thing. There are tons of product placement in movies.
The easy ones to spot are the car ones, since they always seem to have the manufacturer logo visible.
Wayne’s World even had a not-so-subtle clip about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lgLYGBbDNs
Yeah there is and you’re correct that I was mistaken to some extent but I’m not going to rehash it here. There’s a longer comment explaining that I made to the original user who responded to me that you can read if you’re interested but it’s… A lot.
Thanks for the ping! Worth the read.
Advertisements have changed a lot in my lifetime and I don’t keep good track of the why even though I recognize that there have been definite changes. Sorry for the confusion.
So we sort of did but not for the reasons you’d think. Not for the reasons I thought at least.
Specifically there used to be a time when there was ad placement in movies and tv literally all the time. But more often than not now a days this doesn’t happen that way because companies that have trade marked logos or symbols don’t want to allow their products to be used without getting paid a licensing fee and companies that would use this kind of product placement don’t want to pay the licensing fee which is why in the late 80’s and early 90’s there was a rise in blurring logos and brand names in media. There’s also the risk of certain licensing agreements not being legitimate for certain markets which can lead to blurring of the same type or it’s newer counterpart which involves using stickers or off brand styling instead.
But also some other countries do ban it. China apparently instituted such a ban in 2011.
But anyway I got confused because around the same time there was a ban on certain products being allowed to advertise in movies and directly in tv shows (cigarettes/tabacco products, alcoholic beverage brands, guns etc). I was exhausted and wrong and that’s on me.
Who… Buys… EA games? I haven’t given them a dime shit since they launched Origin.
Yeah fuck all that.
I think I haven’t played a single EA title in a decade, will continue to do so.
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.
