Submitted 1 month ago by simple@lemm.ee to games@lemmy.world
Wow, this is awful. Some people reported that these ads are also very petty and not necessarily related to the game, like apparently Elden Ring shows an ad for a licensed mousepad when you hover over the game now…
This isn’t actually ads, just the news tab being brought up front, on steam it would be the top row in your library if you didn’t remove it, it’s a good idea with terrible execution, everytime I see an update over there I go check out the game.
There’s an advertisment for Spiderman Across the Spiderverse when the person is trying to play Spiderman Miles Morales.
The news feed can have ads, but the poorly designed feature itself isn’t about showing ads. It’s just showing the top item of the news feed.
Interesting. This makes more sense. Curious to see what we hear going forward.
I'm sure that'll help PS5 Pro sales.
Guess it’s time to sell the PS5 that I don’t play anymore anyway.
The PS5 was such a disappointing mispurchase. I was so excited to finally get one… It just doesn’t feel like any major improvement over a PS4. It is just gathering dust except for the occasional Blu-ray movie.
The promise with new consoles used to be “look at our new console, it has a new controller, a new philosophy of game design, AND better graphics! that will be $250 please!” and now, new consoles are like “we haven’t changed our game design philosophy, menu UI, or the controller in 20 years, but now we have a new lighting effect that you won’t even be able to make out because we’ve added so much motion blur to our titles to hide the poor frame rates! that’ll be $700 please!”
It’s upsetting how news outlets can now call anything an ad to generate outrage and people here just eat it up. Something about that word seems to turn people’s brains off and they start commenting misinformation.
This is:
A feature to show you news from the game you’re about to play.
Badly designed since it can’t be turned off and it covers the entire screen.
Prone to abuse for ads.
This is not:
An ad.
A money making venture by sony.
Unique to playstation.
On other news, welcome to my blog adshittification. The blog that uncovers the sinister truth about the ads being shown in your throat! This week’s highlights:
Youtube still hasn’t stopped ruining my week by filling up those precious few seconds between opening a video and going fullscreenwith intrusive ads that cover a quarter of your screen, and still even then you can’t stop the wall of ads that show up after the video finishes:
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I opened up steam to play some factorio to calm my nerves, but I got greeted by an illegal ad telling me to kill myself:
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So instead I opened library home to play something alse, only to be assaulted by more ads at the top!
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I decided to give up trying to play. Normally I would open reddit next but I haven’t been using it since they put promotions in the post screen:
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Thankfully lemmy is immune to such corporate bs
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No lemmy-chan not you too!
Huh, seems to me that there’s a full screen advertisement for Spiderman Across the Spiderverse when you hover over Spiderman Miles Morales. So that’s a direct ad that is also a money maker for Sony.
I don’t know, it’s a bit hard to assume this was an accident and just a poorly implemented feature. It does cover the screen with the most recent news post, but that’s often an ad, and even on first-party titles like Horizon it just covers the screen with a giant ad for the upcoming lego horizon.
All for the low low price of most of your money, most of your spare time, and most of “the best years of your life”
wow, hold me back.
every day im seeing my lack of dedicated internet access as more a good thing
It always seems like 1 step forward, 2 steps back with console gaming
Personally, it doesn’t bother me. I use my PS5 to game and steam shows. I spend a grand total of seconds on the Home Screen.
Can’t quite understand why this is such a big problem. But we’re all into our own things so it is what it is.
It kind of dampens and cheapens the experience of using the console. The PS+ tab and the PS Store tab are, essentially, full of ads already but at least they’re contained to the two left-most tabs on the home menu. Sure, you usually don’t stick around too long after selecting a game to play or a streaming service to watch something off, but I’d rather not see more ads than needed when the current system already works well as is.
Yeah. I get that. It makes sense, but I just don’t see it as some thing that really bothers me that much. I spent decades watching TV ads though, so, maybe I’m just more patient?
It doesn’t have to bother you personally to be unfair. I don’t pay this amount of money on their games and consoles to be bombarded by ads. It’s not a “big” problem, but it is a problem. Some people don’t want to see so many ads, to be tempted to buy stuff all the time or have a bloated home screen.
Just because you don’t mind doesn’t mean everyone has to do so as well.
It gets clicks from angry people, that’s the only reason IGN do anything these days.
Sad that they bought Eurogamer, because they were one of the last sites that hadn’t gone to complete shit.
That makes sense. Seems I am too though. Doesn’t change the fact that I’ve no idea why they’re so upset about it.
Ironic.
It was only a matter of time.
There is no reason to get a console. sure they can be a bit more convenient but all the negatives are much worse than any of the positives
Reminds me of the Steam news page
Hate when this shit is pulled, wonder if it om the pro. Imagine paying pro prices for unstoppable ads.
This is also directly targetted to people giving additional money. If you are connected to the internet you are likely, or previously, a subscriber. If you are not paying a sub you are more likely to disconnect and not be affected.
I think this was my last console, I’ll return to PC.
I’m so done buying console games, and consoles.
Not just because of this shit either. Games just run better on my PC. Like, a LOT better. Only thing I really use PS5 for anymore is playing blu-ray movies.
Noticed this last night. Shadow of the Tomb Raider, a game old AF has advertisement for Merch.
Jedi Survivor adre rises the EA gaming pass or whatever.
This is super shitty!
Shame on console
Build a gaming rig on Newegg credit, pay it off interest free in 12-24 months depending on current deals.
jetsetdorito@lemm.ee 1 month ago
again, Concord was expensive 😡
-sony, probably