• Fox@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    They should be enraged about the rape apologists who are in charge of the company. But consumers forget fast when the shiny new thing is out.

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    1 year ago

    I don’t mind in-game ads printed on in-map billboards and stuff, but ads that interrupt gameplay? Fuck that. Especially if you’ve paid for the content.

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      I don’t mind in-game ads printed on in-map billboards and stuff

      Not ten years ago people were complaining about this very thing.

      It’s fascinating to watch the boiling frog in basically real time. Give it another 10 years and ads that interrupt gameplay will be seen as normal too.

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        1 year ago

        To be fair trackmania where ubisoft implemented that is free2play. And you can deactivate it when you bought their subscription, the only issue is that it’s not sutomaticly deactivated once you buy ir

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      1 year ago

      Ubisoft, epic, ea, Blizzard/Activision…

      I wont say Bethesda because I’m hoping for another Doom or Quake.

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        1 year ago

        What’s the problem with Epic Games, besides No Tux no Bux and anti cheat rootkits?

        I mean those suck, but it has to be more than that right?

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    1 year ago

    i can’t wait for the day when we will need to watch ads or buy premium before we can use our cars

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          Nope, my boss has an i4 that has this bullshit.
          I have an audi a3 that has the hardware for adaptive cruise control but cant use it because of the same bullshit…

          Car market is fuuuucked

          Edit : fyi, i wasnt aware of the problem when ordering it, and its a company car so i didnt pay for it

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    The first time I saw Ubisoft doing this was actually kinda neat because it was done well.

    It was Rainbow Six Vegas/Vegas 2 and the billboards and posters scattered around were real ads. I thought it was a clever way to improve immersion.

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        The World worked that way, but people accepted the new ad contained products they paid for.

        People even think it is fine to buy a product you don’t own

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          And people are making excuses for the forever inflating greed…

          I mean, how do you accept inflating prices and costs while your salary has been stagnant for decades?
          It just doesn’t make sense how costs, on individuals, are growing and growing.

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    1 year ago

    And they will get away with it because nobody does what will really hurt Ubisoft, which is NOT buy the games. No. They will simply come on reddit or here and complain, and then throw their hands up and accept it when that fails to produce any results.

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        1 year ago

        I always found this to be a bad example. 15 people out of the 51 on that page are playing the game they’re in a boycott group for. That’s a clear minority, even if that had been representative of all 1557 members.

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          1 year ago
          1. It’s page one, so I don’t think this is a selected subset.

          2. This is just the people playing right now, and only people playing on steam. This doesn’t show all of the people who bought the game or are playing on console.

          3. Obviously none of the gaming boycotts have worked, and we’re both putting way too much thought into one image.

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    11 months ago

    Take it back…call it defective. Fuck that shit, I don’t care how good the game is, they’re not getting my money ever again.

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      I don’t mind a little ad in the menu, about stuff directly related to game I’m playing. Those little “Hey we released a new content dlc to this exact game” infos can actually be informative. What I really can’t stand is stuff breaking the immersion of the game. I’m not even mad about product placements, when they fit the theme and are sparsely used.

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          1 year ago

          it even adds to the authenticity in those games, perfect example of it done right. the problem is advertisers thinking their template applies to every medium without exception

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            1 year ago

            But also the deciders in the dev studios, that take the money even if it doesn’t fit or don’t integrate it properly.