10th May 2024, 11:17 AM
https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games...t-says-ceo
EA is going to implement "thoughtful" ads in their games. The way they're talking about it like it'll be a new thing, it sounds like this is going to be a far cry from the billboards in modern cityscapes that games already do. It sounds like gameplay will be interrupted by advertising. And they want to charge $70 for the privilege. Screw that.
I'll just not buy games that do this. I'm not compromising on this, at all. One game stuck a full game interrupting ad inside back in retro days, and it was done as a joke:
Of course, the Tom's Hardware article got this right from the horse's mouth, so they can't say anything bad about it or risk losing access.
EA is going to implement "thoughtful" ads in their games. The way they're talking about it like it'll be a new thing, it sounds like this is going to be a far cry from the billboards in modern cityscapes that games already do. It sounds like gameplay will be interrupted by advertising. And they want to charge $70 for the privilege. Screw that.
I'll just not buy games that do this. I'm not compromising on this, at all. One game stuck a full game interrupting ad inside back in retro days, and it was done as a joke:
Of course, the Tom's Hardware article got this right from the horse's mouth, so they can't say anything bad about it or risk losing access.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)