Comment on Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes

LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• steelplatedmech@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  And retro games to emulate.

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• lemmyng@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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  • bandanawearingbanana@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    They can even make Pokemon games fun to play as an adult.

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  • ggtdbz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨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.

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    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?

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• dil@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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• ieGod@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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• TronBronson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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

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  • LillyPip@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨minute⁩ ago

    Yeah, I actually wouldn’t mind that. It’s actually integrated and not all up your nose about it. Probably the only way in-game ads wouldn’t piss me off.

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  • BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk ⁨11⁩ ⁨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

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  • ms_lane@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Had that back in NFSU too.

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    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Not Fafe Sor Uggos

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  • CaptainBasculin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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).

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