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Ubisoft Allegedly Interrupts Gameplay with Pop-Up Ads (80.lv)

submitted 11 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Ubisoft Allegedly Interrupts Gameplay with Pop-Up Ads::Is it a bug or a new approach to ads in their games?

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[–] Bjornir@programming.dev 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That excuse only works for people who have no ideas how programming works. New features can't appear because of a glitch.

The only thing that can indeed happen is the feature was developed and tested, and it was enabled by a glitch. But the feature necessarily was developed intentionally, because things don't just appear like that in a program.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

"One of our engineers tripped and fell on the keyboard and accidentally coded an entire ad delivery system then accidentally shipped it."

The only way I could imagine this being an accident was if they'd already built the ad system and then decided not to use it because they had a burst of common sense at the last possible minute, then later on they accidentally shipped the wrong version in an update.