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"I love it! That's what's been missing the whole time!" --EA Shareholders
Looks like another punishment for buying their games legally. Cracked versions don’t connect to their servers so they wont load ads.
And they keep asking why many people resort to piracy. Nothing is owned these days; I feel like they also want me to pay for breathing next year.
Oh no, don’t make me not buy your product even less. I’m already at 0.
Maybe we can pre-order and cancel...
"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.
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I think I haven't played a single EA title in a decade, will continue to do so.
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.
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.
Time to buy Paralives!
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.
EA you're already known as the worst, you don't need to prove the point any more...
UBISOFT is trying vie for that number 1 spot, they went so far as help produce a show on appletv+ to spread good propaganda bout itself.
Between them, Ubisoft, and Blizzard/Activision, it's been a frantic race to the bottom.
Bethesda still manages to stay in the "honorable mention" category.
EA to my knowledge just has shitty business practices. Ubisoft at a minimum had a culture of sexual harrassers, possibly assaulters. Blizzard certainly had rapists. Ubisoft also with the pioneering always online DRM for single player games getting back to the games portion of their evils
Obviously not bad enough because people continue buying them.
games like diablo4(expansions) is what keeps people coming back to blizzard.
Which is pitiful, because D4 is just a giant MTX interface with some shiny graphics.
I can't wait to shoot my way around war torn half destroyed cities with pristine advertising signs in the next Battlefield.
Years ago there was an rpg based around skittles. Yes skittles. It was a banger, fun as hell. It also flopped because absolutely-fucking no one wants to play an advertisement.
Listen here EA - the world fucking sucks, no one is fucking happy. Can you just focus on making fun fucking things and not take a giant enshitification all over the one things most of us have to keep us from being on top of a water tower with a high powered rifle? Can we have ONE FUCKING THING??!
The packaging for the game really tried to hide it was an advertisement game. Title is Darkened Skye which says nothing about it being a skittles game.
Apparently the singular of skittles is "Skittles" according to that game
Unfortunately, Andrew Wilson needs more money to purchase more kidnapped children from Asia.
Hell, 7up had a platformer. Wasn't a bad game
*Pepsi Maaaaann!*
Those drink ad games were a fever dream.
Man, EA just fully doesn't give a shit about making games anymore, eh?
They care very much about making games that get bought.
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
I foresee this getting their titles kicked off steam, since their developer TOS pretty much forbids this.
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reminder that saudi arabia's public fund has bought ea. they're trying to squeeze out all the revenue they can. tumble down the enshittification pyramid