Electronic Arts Announces Plans to Cram Far More Advertising Into Its Games / EA Advertising will serve up real-time dynamic ads inside EA Sports titles
https://kotaku.com/ea-sports-fc-madden-advertising-ads-commercials-in-game-2000706601
https://kotaku.com/ea-sports-fc-madden-advertising-ads-commercials-in-game-2000706601
30 Comments
Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org · 30 pts · 57d
Glad I don't play sports titels, but bloody hell. In addition to paying for a full game and getting bunch of MTXs and season passes. Now we need to suffer through ads as well.
Why the hell are we even paying for a game in the first place. I've seen free mobile games with a better approach.
If I'm paying i don't want to see any ads, how hard is that to get through to CEOs?
TallonMetroid@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 57d
Well, you're also not the target audience. This is aimed at the people who buy Madden every year, who are already inured to predatory monetization, and so will probably just roll over and take it.
DelightfullyDivisive@discuss.online · 23 pts · 57d
You know...morons.
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 57d
My local basketball team recently made it almost to the finals, so my wife and I felt obliged to watch a couple of the games. Holy shit, there was so much advertising. Even when they challenged a call and they had 15 seconds or so they still stick an ad on the screen. They even have ads that are digitally super imposed on the court and you can tell cause they don’t always clip correctly around the players but who cares if it interrupts your watching cause we need our money.
tal@lemmy.today · 26 pts · 57d
Oh, I'd say that it pretty much tracks the sports experience that it's trying to simulate.
searches
https://qz.com/150577/an-average-nfl-game-more-than-100-commercials-and-just-11-minutes-of-play
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 57d
Anyone who watches through this is a completely cucked simp. Might as well work for free, then bend over and take it from daddy.
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 57d
Remember when Jared Kushner and other ghouls bought them
SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 57d
I was just about to hold my nose and buy Battlefield 6, then they did that.
datavoid@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 57d
I bought it like a week before, was extremely not impressed.
SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 57d
Well, BF4 still has an active player base at least!
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 57d
At least that would fit, thematically. I think if one played a Kushner Mass Effect it would cause some kind of tear in reality. Major bummer.
TheVoiceOfRaison@thelemmy.club · 14 pts · 57d
I've lived 43 years with never buying an EA sports title. I think I'll manage the rest.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 56d
The NFL Street, NBA Street, and SSX series were peak EA Sports (BIG).
Been downhill since
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 56d
Archon was goood. And wasn't it EA who made (or at least distributed) Pitfall?
DragonAce@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 57d
The entire concept of EA releasing a new 2K sports game every year is absolutely asinine. The fact that people shell out money for that bullshit is even more ridiculous. There are usually little to no changes from one game to the next outside of simple roster updates, which is something that could easily be done with a game update or they could have setup a subscription service to autoupdate rosters. EA is a shit company that creates shit games and it enshitifies every games it gets the rights to.
Flower@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 57d
"We estimate we can sell up to 80% of an individual's visual field before inducing seizures." ~ Nolan Sorrento, Ready Player 1
Blubber28@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 57d
It is so incredibly kind, all the marketing that companies like EA are doing for indie titles completely free of charge!
green_goglin@thelemmy.club · 9 pts · 56d
Pure_Psykosis@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 56d
Extra Schloppy.
AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@piefed.social · 8 pts · 57d
If you buy an EA sports game nowadays... you're kinda looking for it. But hey, your money, your rules, I guess? Enjoy it, I suppose.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 56d
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xtraAdsGlytch@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 56d
Ex. Tra. Ads. They're in the games.
TimothyOilypants@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 56d
EA has been doing this for more than a decade already; they just weren't promoting the ad sales pipeline publicly.
BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 56d
They're desperate. What happened to all the live service games that were supposed to bring billions and billions of dollars forever?
The only titles I recognize from EA lately are Battlefield 1 and Battlefield 6.
And I didn't buy them. Because EA fucked me. And also because they don't work on Linux.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 57d
I already avoid their games. Indies and other good studios are more worth it.
nosuchanon@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 56d
Etterra@discuss.online · 3 pts · 56d
LOL sucks to suck, competitive "gamers." Single player for life, bitches.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 56d
So what's everyone's favorite Indie sports games?
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 56d
Why would anyone play that shit?
mecen@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 56d
Great era is incoming adblock in games...