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Watching an ad would earn players another block of ad-free play time, called a "credit"

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[–] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 139 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

Put ads in my games and I’ll stop playing your games. Simple as. Plenty of indies out there are more deserving of my time.

[–] ieGod@lemmy.zip 3 points 16 hours ago

Indies have been far more satisfying for me over the last five years or so; many wonderful gems out there.

[–] steelplatedmech@piefed.ca 31 points 1 day ago

And retro games to emulate.

[–] TronBronson@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago

Honestly the indies are the only ones worth your time and money. Just pirate the big studio bullshit

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Indies, romhacks, fangames, recompilations, mods, etc can extend the life of any game nowadays.

[–] ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago

I remember feeling bad about how the original PvZ was absolutely wasted on EA, who made sequels that are just mobile slop. Relatively recently I found out that a huge community exists to make more of the good stuff and it’s legitimately overwhelming how much community stuff there exists for this one game alone.

The other obvious example is Minecraft which for me has basically just been a platform for individual mod packs that are basically their own games. And of course, Skyrim. I’ll get back to that one day.


Am I turning into those people I used to see all over forums when I was a kid talking about games from the 90s that didn’t seem that compelling to me?

[–] dil@piefed.zip 10 points 1 day ago

So many games on sale I want to play, backlog infinite

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

Yeah these big players are acting like we still have the scale of choice from the 90s

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

There was Prototype, which experimented with in game ads a while back. They sold ads on the billboards in NYC in the game. They seemed less obtrusive

[–] BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk 1 points 2 hours ago

Football manager have always had "let's kick racism out of football" and other NGOs represented on their banners - Because they had no clue what to do with it, I'm pretty sure there's a settings option to replace them with real paid ads now

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not Fafe Sor Uggos

I wouldn't mind ads like how Trackmania does it, you can disable them from options or have it show only TM related stuff (clubs, events, cotd).