disgusting. it doesn't surprise me. publishers are continously testing how much their customers can bend over.
this post was submitted on 24 Nov 2023
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The only ads I want in my video games are in-world lore appropriate ones. Like the biomechanical penis implant ad from Omikron: The Nomad Soul.
They are doing fucking what?!
Enshitification going so hard I wouldn’t even pirate it.
But who am i kidding, the pirated version will likely have this crap removed, better performance without denuvo and all exclusives unlocked. Yarrrr
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I'm so behind companies doing this because too many people accept ads in every other part of their life and then act surprised when they get more ads showing up. It would be nice if this stuff woke people up.
You can't pick and choose. You have to reject all ads. They're a cancer we let it metastasize
What did you expect from a company whose logo is a turd seen from above!
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.
but there's no good reason for studios to insert ads in the middle of a game
"Au contraire!"
— Ubisoft, highly likely.
Yet another reason to continue my boycott of Ubisoft.
I wouldn't say I'm consciously boycotting Ubisoft, personally. But I sure as hell haven't bought one of their games for a long time, and with the way they've been going as a company in general, I can't see myself buying anything from them in the near future. If they do release something worth buying then I'll consider it, though.
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In other news: Ubisoft's revenue are up 14% year on year in September
I might be wrong, but don't they plan or already do put anticheat into single player games so people don't cheat-in the various ingame currencies they have to buy XP boosts (where without them leveing is a crawl)?
There thou art... The Big Three. Thy faces, AAA Publishers. Thy actions barely worthy of the name. Didst truly believe thy ploy would succeed? Dist believe Jolly Roger's would not notice? Publishers thou may be, yet thou hast proven thyselves fools, every one. The supplication of Ubisoft. The whimper of Activision. The death mewl of Electronic Arts...
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