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EA wants to place in-game ads in its full-price AAA games, again (www.techspot.com)
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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.

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[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 27 points 5 months ago

I cannot buy fewer EA games.

Not with that attitude

The last EA game I bought ran on the Super Nintendo.

Have you checked Babbage’s return policy?

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Babbage as in the steam-driven mechanical game engine, version 2?

I remember the controllers being kinda clunky.

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 months ago

Heh

For reference for anyone

Now GameStop

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