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Looks like another punishment for buying their games legally. Cracked versions don’t connect to their servers so they wont load ads.
"I love it! That's what's been missing the whole time!" --EA Shareholders
Oh no, don’t make me not buy your product even more. I’m already at 0.
Maybe we can pre-order and cancel...
EA you're already known as the worst, you don't need to prove the point any more...
Between them, Ubisoft, and Blizzard/Activision, it's been a frantic race to the bottom.
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
Bethesda still manages to stay in the "honorable mention" category.
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.
Who.... Buys.... EA games? I haven't given them a dime shit since they launched Origin.
Yeah fuck all that.
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.
Man, EA just fully doesn't give a shit about making games anymore, eh?
They care very much about making games that get bought.
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.
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??!
Weirdly enough, there’s been A FEW of these types of games that were based either on a specific product or a specific brand, and they were for the most part, weirdly well done for the times they released in and actually sorta fun.
Off the top of my head, Pepsiman for a specific product and the whole lot of Lego games if we’re talking about a whole product line.
I think that whole genre is called advergames
Chex Quest was legitimately good, but mostly because it was just a Doom mod
I think legos are in their own genre no matter what. That’s like advertising a game franchise.
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
The best game that was just an advertisement was Chex Quest. But, I mean, they hired some teenagers who loved Doom to make the game and gave them little to no oversight other than "explain what a healthy breakfast is and include Chex cereal." So they just made a kick-ass Doom clone that only marginally advertises the cereal.
I can't wait to shoot my way around war torn half destroyed cities with pristine advertising signs in the next Battlefield.
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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.
"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.
I foresee this getting their titles kicked off steam, since their developer TOS pretty much forbids this.
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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.
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
That's true, although very simplified. The slightly less simplified version is that Jared Kushner's private equidy firm and the Saudis took a huge loan to buy EA then loaded the company with that debt. EA will be forced to sell a huge chunk of their portfolio and layoff thousands of people. If they survive this somehow they will be a shadow of what once was but more likely they'll simply vanish soon. This shit should be completely illegal but I would lie if I said I'll miss EA. A few people at the top getting filthy rich by destroying the company seems like a very fitting end for them.
It should be illegal to buy a company on loan and transfer that debt to the company. You should be required to get your money back via dividends or by building the company up and reselling it.
Kojima or whoever did it before him should've patented it so the disease doesn't spread.
Finally!
If there's one thing EA's gaming lacked, it was an opportunity to accidentally click on something that tried to charge my credit card.
I think I haven't played a single EA title in a decade, will continue to do so.
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
Time to buy Paralives!
I remember when EA was the Goat back in the Commodore 64 days. How far they’ve fallen.
I'd be all for it if it meant the other shit would go away. I'd rather see Mountain Dew (instead of Altitude Precipitation or whatever) in the Sims if it meant no microtransactions and other annoying ads. But it's EA, that's not gonna happen, we'll just get Mountain Dew in the Sims AND ads AND microtransactions.
U.S. Patent 8246454B2 is a real thing.
Time is cyclical it seems. They did something just like this 20 years ago.