Looks like another punishment for buying their games legally. Cracked versions don’t connect to their servers so they wont load ads.
Electronic Arts has launched EA Advertising, a way for brands to integrate ads in games
Submitted 19 hours ago by Innerworld@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
https://www.eurogamer.net/ea-advertising-ads-in-game-content-integrations
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mysterious_cake@feddit.nl 4 hours ago
Freakazoid@lemmy.ml 58 minutes ago
And they keep asking why many people resort to piracy. Nothing is owned these days; I feel like they also want me to pay for breathing next year.
FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 8 hours ago
Oh no, don’t make me not buy your product even less. I’m already at 0.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 hours ago
Maybe we can pre-order and cancel…
Asafum@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
EA you’re already known as the worst, you don’t need to prove the point any more…
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Between them, Ubisoft, and Blizzard/Activision, it’s been a frantic race to the bottom.
Stupendous@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
EA to my knowledge just has shitty business practices. Ubisoft at a minimum had 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
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 6 hours ago
Bethesda still manages to stay in the “honorable mention” category.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 10 hours ago
UBISOFT is trying vie for that number 1 spot.
artyom@piefed.social 14 hours ago
Obviously not bad enough because people continue buying them.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 10 hours ago
games like diablo4(expansions) is what keeps people coming back to blizzard.
deleted@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
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dabu@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
If the game is not good on its own and requires ads to be profitable… Then it’s not worth buying anyway
darthelmet@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
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.
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
They could offer it for free instead with that.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 8 hours ago
Free games with MTX and ads and shit are all the rage anyway
HereIAm@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
“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 he dynamic all the way back then as well or if the one-and-done billboard were intended.
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
Man, EA just fully doesn’t give a shit about making games anymore, eh?
minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
They care very much about making games that get bought.
CIA_chatbot@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
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??!
Whitebrow@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
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
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 6 hours ago
Sometimes I forget that the LEGO games are just really fancy ads.
vrek@programming.dev 16 hours ago
Those Xbox burger king games were legitimately fun…
Zephorah@discuss.online 17 hours ago
I think legos are in their own genre no matter what. That’s like advertising a game franchise.
jaycifer@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
The Dungeons and Dragons idle game has a champion that is composed of Nerds candy pieces. It’s actually a fun character concept because you can switch the nerds around to different colors, each one with a different class that changes how their mechanics work. But it’s just so weird seeing candy you can eat alongside Drizzt Do’urden that I never use them.
grue@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I am genuinely surprised none of the freaks around here have mentioned the KFC dating sim yet.
Cavemanfreak@programming.dev 11 hours ago
The old Kellogg’s game from mid 90’s was really clunky, but it was great fun as a <10 year old not knowing any better!
Butterpaderp@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
Candystand.com games went crazy back in the early 2000’s
turkalino@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
That Nerf clone of Unreal Tournament was dope
QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 8 hours ago
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
justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 14 hours ago
Hell, 7up had a platformer. Wasn't a bad game
Doc_Crankenstein@slrpnk.net 6 hours ago
*Pepsi Maaaaann!*
That game was a fever dream.
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 13 hours ago
That Xbox BK game, Domino’s Noid game, I think 7up had an othello clone.
DupaCycki@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
Unfortunately, Andrew Wilson needs more money to purchase more kidnapped children from Asia.
ms_lane@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Ventrue Princes gotta Ventrue Prince.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 14 hours ago
The best game that was just an advertisement was Chex Quest.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Cool Spot was my jam but I still drank Sprite
Aneorthisio@lemmy.ml 16 hours ago
I can’t wait to shoot my way around war thorn half destroyed cities with pristine advertising signs in the next Battlefield.
mrfriki@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
Honestly, anyone buying EA games deserve it.
ironycanal@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
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.
Regrettable_incident@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
You now have 300 condoms in your inventory and an intriguing side mission with your fellow soldiers.
manuremy@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
Time to buy Paralives!
shininghero@pawb.social 18 hours ago
I foresee this getting their titles kicked off steam, since their developer TOS pretty much forbids this.
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
smaximov@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I think I haven’t played a single EA title in a decade, will continue to do so.
harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
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.
Airfried@piefed.social 17 hours ago
Kojima or whoever did it before him should’ve patented it so the disease doesn’t spread.
5oap10116@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
dis_da_mor@anarchist.nexus 17 hours ago
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
Airfried@piefed.social 16 hours ago
That’s true, although very oversimplified. The slightly less simplified version is that the 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.
nogooduser@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
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.
Jiral@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
They won’t be missed, destroyer of game franchises, studios and pioneer in anti-consumer stuff and transforming games into gambling, children welcome.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
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.
atrielienz@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Didn’t we stop allowing overt advertising in movies and music videos for a reason?
grue@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
When did that happen?
QuadratureSurfer@piefed.social 11 hours ago
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
atrielienz@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
So we sort of did but not for the reasons you’d think. Not for the reasons I thought at least.
Specifically there used to be a time when there was ad placement in movies and tv literally all the time. But more often than not now a days this doesn’t happen that way because companies that have trade marked logos or symbols don’t want to allow their products to be used without getting paid a licensing fee and companies that would use this kind of product placement don’t want to pay the licensing fee which is why in the late 80’s and early 90’s there was a rise in blurring logos and brand names in media. There’s also the risk of certain licensing agreements not being legitimate for certain markets which can lead to blurring of the same type or it’s newer counterpart which involves using stickers or off brand styling instead.
But also some other countries do ban it. China apparently instituted such a ban in 2011.
But anyway I got confused because around the same time there was a ban on certain products being allowed to advertise in movies and directly in the shows (cigarettes/tabacco products, alcoholic beverage brands, guns etc). I was exhausted and wrong and that’s on me.
janewaydidnothingwrong@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
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
DrSleepless@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
I remember when EA was the Goat back in the Commodore 64 days. How far they’ve fallen.
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 hours ago
Greatest Offering Around Then?
Because “greatest of all time” implies it’s also great now… which is a time.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
We can’t know what’s going to be the greatest of all time in the future, only what’s the greatest of all time so far.
Bademantel@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
It does not. “Greatest of all time back in the day” does not imply it’s still the greatest. By your logic the future is also a time. As we don’t know it yet, nothing can ever be the greatest of all time, making the term meaningless.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 10 hours ago
turned around the time they bought westwood and killed off cnc franchise(technically) a decade later.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Time is cyclical it seems. They did something just like this 20 years ago.
PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 18 hours ago
I remember when Quake Live introduced it, but it never really gained any traction.
A popular server-side mod for Counter-Strike (the 1.6 era) introduced in-map texture substitution for advertising as well… but I think it was pissed on by the community so much that it never saw widespread use.
Sounds like the time is right to try again.
MintyAnt@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Rs Vegas 2?
ms_lane@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
NFS Underground 2 had in-game advertising for Cingular and Burger King.
NFS Carbon was absolutely plastered with T-mobile advertising.
Flamekebab@piefed.social 15 hours ago
I was thinking the same - i hadn’t realised that it ever went away (as I don’t play the genres traditionally associated with in game ads).
rtxn@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I can’t wait to see gamers fail to boycott this.
PixellatedDave@feddit.uk 18 hours ago
I haven’t purchased any ea games since 2013 and this reminds me why.
chamaeleon@fedia.io 17 hours ago
"After removing Holiday's Ad Restrictions We estimate we can sell up to 80% of a user's vision without inducing seizures" - Nolan Sorrento
rogsson@piefed.social 17 hours ago
I never play EA slop, so… anyways.
Hegar@fedia.io 17 hours ago
I dunno how many games EA makes set in the past or secondary worlds, but gauranteed it will drop. We may still get scifi games chock full of today's brands.
OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
… god dam it
DannyMac@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
“I love it! That’s what’s been missing the whole time!” --EA Shareholders