Comment on EA VP Urges Companies To Think About In-Game Ads During Development: ‘That’s A Huge Opportunity’

scutiger@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• lobut@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Only one I can justify is the EA sports games. Mainly because I refuse to play those games.

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  • snooggums@piefed.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Ads are not required for sports to be immersive.

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    • BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      But none intrusive banner ads is whatever, historically football games have included “fake ads” for charities and inclusion.

      If that got changed to opt-in proper ads for a 10€ price deduction we’d be all ears

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      • NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        This is EA we are talking about, the “opportunity” is not to give the consumers a discount.

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    • HerbGrower@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I can’t believe its a real representation of football without at least 8 paddy power ads.

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    • lobut@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I was making a bad joke about they’re expected in sports games but I just refuse to play EA sports games in general.

      I dislike how they’re all small iterations every year and filled with microtransactions.

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• brsrklf@jlai.lu ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There are so few games I play in which ads would make sense. Hard to shoehorn a dorito ad in a fantasy universe or on a distant planet. I very much wouldn’t welcome it.

  There are a few odd cases I can remember, like freaking Tonic Trouble ages ago was another Rayman-like from Ubisoft and power-ups in that game (in Europe) were crunch bars from a vending machine. Or back when I played Splatoon they did an event in which you had to fight for a brand of noodles or some shit.

  Oh yeah, there’s that absurd thing in Mario Kart 8 where they added 3 mercedes mini-cars out of nowhere. It’s terrible but also so stupid it’s a bit funny, especially since it’s the only product placement they ever did in that game.

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• TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Bullshit. What do you play, Pitfall?

  Advertising (which includes product placement) is so ubiquitous there’s essentially zero chance you’re avoiding it, you just don’t notice it…

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  • HerbGrower@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Never heard of pitfall. My recently played games:

    Rimworld, Factorio, CDDA, Quasimorph, Against the Storm, Highfleet, Vintage Story.

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    • TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      CDDA is full of real.world brands…

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