EA Chooses DEATH: CEO Wants Ads in $70 AAA Games?!
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- čas přidán 9. 05. 2024
- The CEO of EA just said they're looking at putting ads in $70 AAA titles. But they tried this before, and it was a massive failure. As did Ubisoft as recently as last year. And guess what? It was a massive failure. But as AAA developers try to squeeze gamers for more and more, expect prices and microtransactions to increase.
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At this point, these gaming companies are competing with each other for who can piss off gamers the most and who can go bankrupt the fastest.
Nothing wrong with ads CZcams does it
Gamers can still get pissed at this point? I pretty much have apathy after everything that's been going on lately.
@@Allmenshouldrespectallwomen CZcams is also a free product. Games are not. Fuck off.
@@Allmenshouldrespectallwomen I bet you were banned from the Crayola factory for eating all the crayons.
@@Allmenshouldrespectallwomendid you pay 70usd for CZcams?
That CEO can bite me. Haven't bought an EA or Ubisoft game in 11 years. I remain firm in my resolve to follow the creed "If not owning something you paid for is the standard then piracy is not illegal".
I think your just broke. Go play Minecraft
Arrrgh me hardy! There be plenty of booty out there to play or watch fer the life of me parrot.🐦
@@Allmenshouldrespectallwomenfound the Corp shill
@@Allmenshouldrespectallwomensays the idiot who doesn't play video games.
I never trust a leader that looks like Mr. Sinister or a younger Gavin Newsom.
"Community" has become such a gross, corporate word
And an excuse , to boss the customer around.
As active member of the agreeing community, i agree
I’ve been saying it for more than 10 years now… IF IT SAYS "EA“, STAY THE HELL AWAY!!!
EA Sports: Ads in the Game
Sony: We are going to delist Helldivers in over 170 countries
Microsoft: We are going to shut down 4 gaming studios
EA: Hold my beer
Lmao 😂
Others: write it down....
Microsoft has shut down FAR more than that...
They ones they claim still exist, exsist in name only from my understanding...
EA were the original scummy games company. Bought out and gutted numerous great developers dating back to the 90s. Others just followed their lead.
They backtracked on the helldivers issue.
And then they delist Ghost of Tsushima in over 170 countries for PSN accounts.
Clearly losing customers were never an issue.
I can totally hear gamers talking in my head now: "If 70$ games have all the tricks that free to pay games have, why buy the 70$ games"
good point
I was just thinking that if it’s like a mobile game I’m not paying lol
I miss Korean F2P MMORPG back in the mid 2000s to late 2010s. That was the golden era for F2P MMORPG. Haven't heard of a single new and good F2P MMORPG at all, except for the ones that has been around since the mid 2010s like Black Desert.
You say this, you might even believe this (I do too, fyi), but how many people are still going to buy these games. Suicide Squad lost money, but people still bought it. In far larger numbers then you might imagine.
@@schemage2210 Hell they might even try the Fallout 76 BS where the physical copy is just a cardboard disc with an online code
The second I see adds in a game is the second I'll never buy from that company again.
Translation: I like money and I hate gamers. I will make so many half-baked games with these and you will buy it because you're stupid.
There. Ea speech in a nutshell. Don't bother with their games
Exactly. People forget these companies exist for profit and to them we are nothing more than consumers of said product.
Wow EA really is the worst video game company of all time
I mean they won the award for worst company two years in a row not that long ago. They have sucked for a while now.
I think you people just want to complain
@@Allmenshouldrespectallwomen I can't take you seriously with that name.
@@Bonesawisready926 i doubt anyone can
@@Bonesawisready926 Yes you will. Also I intimidated you. You won't defend yourself
And so the game company CEO tells us "I have never played a game in my life" without saying "I have never played a game in my life"...
Very thoughtful and ALSO impactful.
He also says "I don't know a damn about the customers I'm selling to, but who cares?"
In a single quarter we had Ubisoft clearly stating that they do not consider their customers actually owning anything, Sony/ Arrowhead changing ToS such that paying customers cannot use the product anymore and now EA going stupid again.
At this point it is just a matter of time until these big corporations go bancrupt - they pump hundreds of millions into products which cannot recoup the spending. So they are looking to increase revenues which just further alienates gamers. And instead of cutting expenses and increasing diversity with smaller games, they close these studios, shut down these projects and spend even more money on a few "blockbuster" titles, perpetuating the cycle of monetization...
I thought the CEO was telling us, "I'm ready to be replaced by another CEO."
@@bl8388
More like:
“Screw you all, I have money and I’m employing scorched Earth. I did it my way, and ITS MY WAY SO NO ONE COPIES IT!!!
Keep in mind that Andrew Wilson was also the guy who suggested to Bioware to add the jetpack/flying to Anthem. So, he has some idea of how to improve games, he just chooses not to.
I will never buy a game with ads in it thats just insane.
Imagine buying a game only to be distracted at key story points with ads. This ISN'T tv for crying out loud!
No point in writing 7 paragraphs telling y'all what you already know. So just Boycott AAA gaming already.
There you go. Straight to the point. Much better than these paragraphs some people think we care to read. 😂
Nuh uh. Not boycotting Fromsoft
Companies must be allergic to making money. They are already a hated company so this will just make your situation worse
They'll make revenue and eventually you'll get used to it. Don't whine
Lol no, consoles are dieing and the biggest break outfits for 2 years have been AA studios.
I think it all works in a boardroom with stats and graphs, which is fine for guiding most decisions but it doesn't take into account the human element. Take trend chasing for example - on paper it makes sense to add 'hero characters' from a popular game (Fortnite) into say Battlefield 2042, but the players overwhelmingly didn't like that decision as it doesn't 'feel' like a Battlefield game, and it's that 'feeling' that stats and graphs can't express.
CEOs are not gamers, they are merchants and stock traders, they don't know squat about games. And because they are so disconnected with common folks hence all these weird decisions that don't make sense.
@Allmenshouldrespectallwomen
Man, I wish I had a much free time/ was being paid to shill for multi billion dollar companies making bad ideas.
I see an ad reel in a game i pay 70 bucks for, im instantly asking for a refund. Hard pass.
They will only active them after the 2 hour mark.
@@justinwhite2725 All the more reason to never pre order and be careful with day one purchases.
They'll make sure to add non refund clauses into the agreement you have to accept before you can play the game
Pro tip, dont pay $70 to begin with. If theh can't make money on their dlc riddled cash shop casino simulator launching at $60 then they aren't going to last anyway.
@@MyShiroyuki I don't think such clauses are legal in some jurisdictions. I know in the EU & UK that there's a statutory right to return goods and cancel a contract in a 14, maybe 28, day window with no reason required. There are some exceptions but that applies generally across most transactions.
"You can turn off the Ads during gameplay if you'd like for only $2 a day!" ~EA's solution to the backlash probably.
Or "we'll have fewer ads" or "you can skip the ads ;)"
The solution is simple. Reject the fancy crisp graphics and fancy cinematics. Even the trailers are just big ads and those games are super shallow and boring. The more they hype the game, the more you know it's trash. Buy indie games. Support indie developers. They still care about games and the customers.
I thought that was the point of trailers...? And indie devs aren't flawless lil' angels. They can make some big stinkers too, and be just as greedy and selfish. Ever heard of Direct Contact?
Not saying anything to justify this decision or support the companies, what I'm saying is be cautiously optimistic. It's a good time for indie projects to get on their feet and snatch up estranged players and show up the companies. But don't just support *everything,* yeah?
Indie isn't the golden child so many people think it is. Remember a certain game-that-wasn't-a-game that released before Christmas that was a total scam? 🤔
The most hyped, or at least wishlisted, game, manor Lords, is developed by one guy. And good.
Imdie biggest flaw are scams using crowdfunding posing as indies. Watch out for that
Its time they go out of business. Giving them any more money is insanity.
Gonna suck for any games they released in the last decade or any game bought online only.
Poser gamers will still buy their games. Thats the problem with games going mainstream.
@@WhatIsMatter101 We really need to bring back the word "poser" to the common lexicon.
They call them tourists these days.
Nah, people will always buy the new shiny, regardless if it's good or not, filled with ads or not, and stuffed full of micro-transactions or not. The modern day "gamer" is pretty much slacked jawed idiots.
Let's be real. The last good games EA put out were made 14 years ago.
I remember way back when they made things like Lords of Conquest... Sigh
🤔 Burnout series was awesome and then 😐 it went away too
Was it some Call of Duty reboot? Or Fifa 2019?
I think you mean 20 years ago NCAA college football
Mass Effect 2?
God this makes the era of NES to Most of Xbox360 seem like the golden era of games.
You got a physical title, you got a completed game, sometimes a freebee like a shirt or a figure just for preordering.
I miss those times.
Same here - got a switch for Mario, Zelda and indies.
Otherwise I have a PS4 which I didn't touch for years, didn't buy PS5 or Series an am currently looking for a X360. Going back to the good times when games didn't come with 30GB of crap and a 10GB Day1-Patch, always-online and mtx
I really miss the old times when you had unskippable ads at the beginning of the DVD.
Yeah my gaming is basically a Switch for Nintendo stuff and a PC for everything else.
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@@KetsubanSolo Oh, I have never heard of Batocera before. I just internet searched it I think I need to look into setting up a computer for that.
I was just thinking that during 360 it seemed like I had to pick and choose what game to try. Now I spend half my time buying last gen games I passed on for like 5$. I think I’ve spent my time on ac unity and monster Hunter world recently.
It’s literally IOI from Ready Player One. 80% of our vision can be turned into ad space without inducing seizures.
I haven't gotten around to checking out Ready Player One yet, but some of the things that were just accepted as commonplace in the world of Idiocracy were pretty horrible about advertising as well. When they watch TV, the show being watched is within a small box in the center of the screen while ads play in a several boxes the same size as the show on all sides around the show. (I wonder if it would work out to 80% of the screen?) Random people you cross paths with in real life would be wearing a brand's clothing and spouting their slogans as often as possible (or just saying "brought to you buy..." after every normal sentence) because they took up sponsorship deals for easy money. There was the deeply rooted brainwashing from all of the constant ad exposure which meant that even people without sponsorship deals will jump on any slightest hint of a prompt to start saying certain company slogans.
EA is the Bud Light of gaming lol
I don't drink beer, but..
Is this true? Or more of an insult to Bud Light?
@@omarmenjivar1563 No it is a metaphor
Welcome to Dylan Mulvaney Land. 😂😂😂
Well since blackrock and vanguard own some EA shareholders you're not wrong at all
except alcoholics have more will power than gamers and no one will ever NOT buy the next big EA game regardless of how often they tell you they're done with the company.
The Sims 4 is pretty much ad simulator. The front menu is pushing you to purchase packs, and in-game there’s a shopping cart button that flashes green and it leads to the menu to buy more packs.
Imagine pressing Quit button and This closing of your game is brought to you by! unskippable ad and then it closes
Alt f4. Game closes
I'm just glad I can still play Sims1 and 2 with my original discs, I don't need the later ones
The fact that you know this, however, means you still tolerate buying their games and accept their abuse.
@@MarvinPowell1 I haven’t played sims in months and haven’t bought anything involving it for more then that. I have friends who still play the game, and they were the ones who told me about the shopping cart button. There was also dozens of videos going around showcasing it as well. Even my sister who doesn’t play sims knows how much of an ad simulator it is.
Questionable business practices such as this boldly declares, "Don't ask questions; just consume product, and get excited for next product."
Hard pass.
Yep. After all people still think these companies care about them. They don't. They're here to make money and drawing in the consumer is how they do it.
This only works if the product is good.
Putting ads in the products can be a crime in many different countries. Uh oh!
Since ads are personalized and selected for each country, you can also can make exemptions for certain countries, right?
The dude is the main villain from Ready Player One
You know whats good for immersion? Have a Pepsi ad pop up while playing Dragon Age 😂
"Hey there, I notice you're getting fried by the horrible dragon, but wouldn't this be a good time to enjoy a refreshing cold drink of Pepsi?" - asked no one ever while trying to, you know, NOT DIE during a boss fight?
Hey it worked for Madame Web, the Pepsi even contributed to the plot!
"This Dragon Boss battle brought to you by Pepsi."
Piracy is going to go through the roof. You know damn well that ads will get removed in the crack lol
I don’t know about the long term for piracy as a whole. We are living in unstable times and things are bound to get worse to the point where nobody is safe.
@@mrconroy4672you're always playing with fire when you pirate. Granted it's a lot worse if you're the one distributing files, but still, from day 1 that's the risk you take.
@@mrconroy4672they've been trying to cancel piracy for 40 years though.
@@mrconroy4672unfriendly consumer practices result in practices that are unfriendly to the corporations. Tit for tat.
New laws will be implemented or new systems to prevent piracy.
Why do u think they are already giving up on physical sells?
And the long term idea will be, live services games like fifa, madden and racing games.
They don’t want to spend money on games, they want to produce a mid tier games that we play for 3-5 years.
EA "How can we make gamers hate us even more, I know how about ads"
EA Sports: Ads in the Game
This really has been the week for stupid corporate decisions, hasn't it?
More like the year.
Its been a good month of back to back failures
I tell you they must've all got drunk around new year and made a bet who could make the stupidest decisions for 2024.
What else?
EA needs a new CEO.
Also an overall change to make gaming companies
EA needs to go Enron.
Plot Twist: Video game industry crashes like it's '83 and Atari is the one who rebuilds the industry this time around.
Sounds plausible at this point.
Ready the Jaguar!
Didn't Atari become a LGBT mobile phone game producing company?
Nintendo is likely to do so at least. Atari was already dead to begin with and is just a hollow ghost since then.
Nah everyone will go to pc and indies. AAA industry will die
I wont buy any product that is shown in an ad inside a game I buy. These idiots will NEVER learn...never
The problem is you will buy it when they hype the crap out of it BEFORE they add any ads. Once you have owned it long enough to not be able to return it on Steam, played for 2 hours, then the ads start coming.
All the people who preorder buying super ultra deluxe Supreme versions
@@Bancheis Who's 'you'?
@@Bancheis I was referring to not buying anything that is in the ads. If the ads become too intrusive, then I just wont play the game anymore. I get your point about being too late for a refund.
What about sponsors in say a sports game where they’re on boards in the background?,
“So you have chosen…death.” 💀
There used to be a time that if a game was by a certain studio I would at least check it out. Now there are certain companies I actively avoid, and that list is much longer than I ever could have expected.
LEGO has an attitude about community as well. Everything you do, build, think, fart or fuck needs to be shared with the community!
I kinda wish they had more original lines.
We need mixels to return.
5:06 “Let’s fix this bug and add more ads” I literally got an ad after that.
This is why all of the Helldivers fought back so vehemently. We saw our games turn into trash like this years ago, and the same infection tried to worm its way into HD2.
Has been solved yet. They are not making the PSN account mandatory, but its availability in non PSN countries is still... Well... Not there
@@omarmenjivar1563 whats more concerning is they just changed the requirements for ghost of Tushima to also require a psn account and have limited it to where you can buy
Don’t be surprised if it has.
@@omarmenjivar1563 They are just waiting for the situation to cool down and looking for better reasoning - CMs saying the link was necessary so they coulod better ban people just sounds too dystopic.
I guess they are waiting for Ghosts of Tsushima to hit Steam and then change the ToS for all Sony published titles comprehensively.
@@omarmenjivar1563 Unfortunate, but it seems to me that's up to Steam, not Sony.
What makes this even worse and more appalling, EA Sports are already loaded with advertisements.
Every EA Sport game is loaded with sponsorship deals that are in your face and unable to be ignored, to the point that if you play "Story Mode" your character has a quest to gain sponsorship from things like Gatoraid or fucking Nike.
They have no right putting adds into games we pay $70 for!
Hell didn't they try that a decade ago where Obama had advertisements in Guitar Hero, Incredible Hulk and all the 09 sports games?
this’ll be so much worse, they’ll probably put literal popups in the game or ad videos before you can play
@dylanbell268 - picture it now, popups and full screen ads interrupting gameplay until you pay for their subscription service.
@marbles8641 sponsorships and ads have been in sports games way back to the early 2000's. This isn't a new phenomenon.
Sports are littered with sponsors and ads. When everyone started teaming up with ESPN is when it started to ramp up. Couple that with the league CBA's and player strikes and lockouts, players have an invested stake with their likenesses in game.
For a sports game, ads make sense in context. For a RPG or Souls-like, it doesn't.
at least with the sport game it is on brand as actual player do get sponsorship, now imagine having a Nike ad in Dragon Age, that is where this is going.
other games aside but sports using Gatorade and nike in say a basketball game actually makes sense. They make the game more realistic in the sense of how you can make money. Now I will say I haven't touched any of the sports games in years minus when I think it was NBA2K21 or something when it went free but I saw nothing horrendous as far as 'ads' go since nike shoes in a basketball game makes sense if you want your character to look as close to legit as possible. You take a game like Final Fantasy then yea ads or real life counterparts like Nike have no business being in the game. It didn't make sense when I think CoD or some game was trying to do real ads on billboards in their game.
There needs to be harsh consumer protection laws to hamstring the complete fu*ckery of these greedy game studios.
The cynic in me doesn't think a consumer law would be passed for this. "It's just commercials. There's nothing hurting a consumer. The company selling you the game is just making money from ads. Nothing to see here."
The people in control don't care about the consumers further than making them buy your games. For example, Take-Two CEO Strauss Zelnick, the guy behind all the controversy with GTA, is/was chairman of the board for ESRB, the company that rates games for how safe they are for children. If people like that are in control of the very organizations intended to protect consumers, it's pretty obvious the kind of protection we would get.
There won't - adds are totally fine in TV and cinema, both forms of media for which the customers pays.
Other than their "surprise mechanis" which could be mechanically linked to gambling and therefore was restricted under gambling laws, ads are at worst an inconvenience for the customer which - unless content is inappropriate - no law can protect you from.
As already pointed out, carrer mode in EY Sports games has already included "missions" in which you had to actively pursue a sponsorship...
@BigBossBernie
No, they're NOT fine on TV or at the theater. Mighty conditioned of you to even think that. The original purpose of Cable TV was to paybfor ad-free content. Theaters only started putting ads before movies toward the end of the '00s.
Haven't had TV in over 25 years, and haven't been to a movie in about 15. I fucking loathe advertisements.
You can't spell weasel without EA...
Dont tarnish weasels that way my man.
That's just nuts. Ads embedded in games don't make sense. Sure games take 2-5 years to make, but shouldn't that time be spent on quality?
The time and expense involved in product development is what freaks them out. It's a big risk. So if there is a way to pad the revenue they'll do it
Same perverse incentive as subscription software
7 Days to Die is 11 years old and still in alpha development. It's not a bad zombie sandbox game
@@jackcarterog001I played that on patch 1.01 and it was like Minecraft, it's come so far. Solid fun with friends.
No. Games take 30 years to be made.
Greed
Seriously.... I have no interest in triple A, but this is a good way to remove interest in big budgets!!!
This will help indie games even more. The mammoths are walking towards the tar pits thinking it'll be a nice spa day.
@@arthurpendragon3000 Cautious optimism, we're gonna get plenty of stinkers in the Indie space too.
@@OrionDawn15 at least most of them don't cost 70, we already got plenty of shovelware already too
This is so EA/Disney/Ubisoft of them. It's like every gaming company/publisher is taking turns seeing who can crash and burn the fastest. It makes no sense that you're buying a game to OWN and they're adding ads to it. What, we need to create adblockers in games too?
I'm sick of ads in all games. Remember the good old days of mobile gaming where you'd just pay $5 for a good game and maybe some in app purchases fir $5. Cheaper than a meal from McDonalds.
I wish I never updated my older iPads because older games are not updated and are now unplayable.
They have to realize this is going to cause a market crash...
No, they don't... It has to happen reliably.. it's all about predictable revenue
Will it though?
You're giving these greedy idiots too much credit. If they had a brain to use this wouldn't be happening. It from the executives who get bonuses even if a company fails.
I really wish it would, but it won't. EA's profits primarily come from sports games, and those are the same people who purchase full-price barely recycled slop year after year and tonnes of microtransactions. They'll lap up the ads.
They'll soon want to put ads in your dreams, just like in Futurama
Oh, I forgot about that one. Yeah, if there's any chance that they can make that a reality they'll do everything they can to make it happen.
They might already be doing that
"ONLY ON TV... and on the radio... and on billboards and in newspapers and written in the skies-- BUT NEVER IN OUR DREAMS, no sir"
This is what makes technology that allows non - verbal communication and thought exchange so terryfying like Elon Musk Neurolink. Ads, Ads everywhere. Aside from security concerns also, someone messing with your head like accessing it for information it stores and more, doing stuff like Dr Ludwig, with Cyber Industries that lead to humans turned in Cybermen in Dr Who
The simple solution that doesn't seem to be so simple for some people, is to not buy the games. Stop funding these companies by purchasing their games.
*Were it so easy...*
Sadly the the smooth brained normies can't figure that out.
It's not surprising, EA has always been about money. It is why Madden has never really been innovated as they have the sole right to making that kind of game. Them putting ads in games isn't surprising.
So sports ball games will have more adds than your typical sports ball game.
Yep. They'll be going for an unskippable ad break for real instead of commentary hinting at it.
Back in the day it was called product placement.
You just reminded me of the one or two seconds of screentime that was spent on the Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme Pies box in Honey I Shrunk The Kids. 😊 lol.
Nothing like an ad to break the immersion
And right before the quick time boss fight too when you need to be on time! 😂 🤦♂️
Well in Futurama they were sending ads via dreams and it got Fry to buy some expensive briefs, so why not inject us with ads
Was thinking exactly about this
Plus the evil plan of the main villain of Hi Fi Rush was to mind control the potential customers through the chips in their brains to only buy his company products to "free" them of the pain of choice from a such competitive economy
“So you have chosen death”
-Saruman
EA was the fist company i put on my shit list. SWTOR when it went "free to play" but not really, was scummy to me. Even if i was willing to buy EA i would not buy a full priced game and have ads. I don't even play free games with ads why would i pay for ads.
I wonder if the idiots that defended the price increase to $70 will defend ads in those games too? Didn't we go through this a few years ago, where the backlash about full screen ads caused them to back off. I think it was an MMA game, can't remember.
Edit: It was UFC, they showed it...
Didn't they claim it was accidental or a bug/unintended. Something stupid like that, or am I thinking of something else?
There's already one goober defending the ads and EA in the upper comments. So yes, they will *also* defend ads in games you already paid for.
@Altar54321 - yeah iirc they said it was "a bug" and totally not that they were testing to see if they could get away with it
@@OrionDawn15they can defend the ads in games they pay for. Cause I'll never spend a cent on a game with ads in it. 🏴☠️
This is what EA said about it for UFC 4 “It is abundantly clear from your feedback that integrating ads into the Replay and overlay experience is not welcome. We apologize for any disruption to gameplay that players may have experienced.”
I bet they thought that no one would remember they tried it and everyone hated it.
So this is basically a video game crash speedrun, isn't it?
The extinction of AAA is at hand.
Mhm 👌
AAA is dead!
Long Live AAAA!
The "AAA" publishers are just begging us to pirate their games at this point. We already need adblockers for browsing the internet and watching TV. Soon we'll need adblockers to play games as well. And guess who's going to provide that service? Hint: Its not the people that demand all your money.
well im sure They will offer an overpriced and likely it be teired subscription to block* the ads
*some of**
**an ever lowering percentage likely made up of the cheapest ad space buyers
You should be already pirating AAA games
@@sean7221why? They're all garbage
@@KetsubanSolo Well... maybe it's a *tad* more fun without the looming guilt in your mind that you spent money on it?
Dynamic insertion of ads???
The only dynamic insertion going on here is up gamer’s asses.
3:20 EA did this with Sims 4 as well.
They had a poll asking Sims players what DLC they wanted next.
They then ignored that poll and released a Star Wars themed DLC.
The entire DLC was advertising for Galaxy's Edge.
Gonna be easy money for indie devs who won't pull this crap.
I passed on Jedi survivor, zero interest in outlaws. Gaming companies need to realize we don't need to buy games.
We don't *need* to. But we *want* to. Unfortunately, humans need entertainment.
@@OrionDawn15 You HAVE decades of old entertainment that you most likely have never played before and an occean of new indie games.
@@dragonandavatarfan8865 How many of those old games appeal to players nowadays? Yeah, if you're somebody who's been there in the olden days where game development had actual passion you'd have plenty of old games to play. Assuming they work on your system or aren't hindered by lack of support from a long dead service(Lost Planet 2).
And yeah, indie games are cool. But they can be just as greedy and cash-grabby as companies, that or the projects release unfinished and stay unfinished. Maybe they lack the funds, or the experience, etc etc.
@@OrionDawn15 Emulation my friend, nowadays emulators for the original ps1/2/3 and xbox have advanced so much that you usually don't have to even tinker with them to get a game to work and what's even more crazy is that even younger audiences are going back and trying out older games now that they have no nostalgia for, i can attest to that as i can be considered a zoomer i guess (i was born somewhere around 2002) and i am playing all of these old games from the 2000-2005's that i never got the chance too. This alone should signal just how horrible the modern AAA games are now.
Man this month is the month of triple A companies comitting PR suicide
Why are the entertainment industries all swallowing their own tail?
There has to be an end game to the to the self made chaos *they* created. Even a blind man can see that their high risk greed based decision have little reward.
THIS is why I don't buy Namco Bandai games digitally because their EULA involves you consenting to data scraping profile data for your Switch profile. WHY should I allow you to scrap my data when I bought the game to have you make a profit?! I don't want predatory ads sent my way!!!!! It has NOTHING to do with MP QA as this crap is on SP games too.
EnixSquare says on their new physical game packages you agree to their TOS if you open it on Octopath 2 and Diofield Strategy. WTF is Nintendo tolerating this BS?!
EA really love to take the easy way out, looks like I won't be buying their products, you can forget about it
If ads do not affect the gameplay, there should not be any ads at all.
Once they have etablished this we will never get rid of it like in-game-shops, microtransactions, different versions and the other crap. No form of advertising is ok because, once its in the doors are open.
It's unreal that the concept of "Make a product that your customer actually wants" is NOT the default idea of how to make money for so many entertainment companies. Anything but that...
The problem starts with "what customer wants".
They think that thise "want" is fueled by incentives (happens when you are approaching everything from a sales-pitch/ marketing angle) so they buy licenses which are currently prominent (Star Wars was on the rise when EA acquired the license for Fallen Order, they didn't know that Disney had Book of Boba and Asoka in the making) at insane prices and then need to somehow recoup their spending.
If that does not work, they try scarcity as with "special editions"m but those are lump sums at best and by nature limited.
Next on the list come negatice incentives, as in "you bought into the hype and own the game, now we hold your experience ransom and make you spend additional money for an 'improved experience' " for boosters and other mtx.
Instead of producing good quality at a feasable budget, they sink hundreds of millions even before beta-phase just to keep the hype alive.
Next they will force it into the old games and end up just deleting the games so you buy the new ones. Image being deep in your game to and ads pop up interrupting you even in the middle of a match online. This will be the end of them. Just hope that makes it easier to get all the good games for free since any you get online from them will be erased.
This is largely due to shareholders demands for ever greater profit and growth which is an impossible system.
And to think that in the 1980s EA was considered the most creative, innovative, and respected computer game developer in the world. Every game they created was a classic and they were known for being friendly and communicative with their customers. What a difference forty years makes!
There was an episode of Futurama, where commercials were beamed into your dreams every night while you slept. The subliminally projected commercials prompted real-world reactions in the form of purchase and consumption..... This will totally happen in the future
Wasn’t this the point of Ready Player One?
"Joker the collectors are inside the Normandy we need to get rid of them.... after you finish your ice cold Pepsi"
If they put ads in to video games their claim to be "Art" goes out the window.
You can't claim that a product is Art if it has ads or other temporary features that will not return in it.
This could alter the games status in the Copyright laws and open them(EA) up to a bunch of problems.
Anytime I think we have reached the peak of Mount Stupid, someone comes around and says "Hold my brain cell".
Adds in game are moronic, but adds in mid fight is imbecile.
No one will put up with commercials during gameplay. This is gonna be the biggest backlash ever.
The college football game will be the last thing I buy from EA.
Damn I hope thats good!
Buy it used or pirate or you are part of the problem
Don’t, don’t buy a single game actually stand for your principle, don’t cave in
@@williamhanna9718 this. people need to stand on principles.
Wow EA being stupid who would have thought
Must be a day that ends in Y
In the movie Ready Player One, the evil corporation "l0l" called adds they wanted to place in games "pure 02".
Every company seems to be in a race to see who is the worst and last.
Video games should cost $20-$40 at best. EA already bankrupt themselves, and probably owed money to the licensors.
Nah, judging by inflation models, games being in the $50 for as long as they were was incredible. Even back then, some SNES games went over $50 in 90's money!
If they put ads in it, I expect games to be FREE. I will never ever pay any money for a game with ads.
I haven't bought an ea game since 2011. I still will not. Killed Popcap, killed maxis, and killed American mcgee's Alice. I have no interest in anything they make now.
Rip plants vs zombies and dead space
Does they realise the MASSIVE game library we got behind us that most of us didn't play?
If I stop engaging with new games today I will still play a new game until the end of my life without even struggling to try!
This is just another reason why I've pretty much given up on AAA gaming in 2024. These greedy corporations are so out of touch, all they care about is how quickly they can crap out an unfinished, buggy, $70 title and find ways to milk more money out of their customers. I have decades' worth of backlog, I don't need "modern" AAA.
I used to typically buy at least one full price game and download 1 or 2 every month.
Now... I'm just not excited about gaming anymore and I'll go months without buying a new game. These companies, along with their urinalist shills, have made me actively despise them.
Hell, the newest games I own are four years old, and they're all indies.
Personally, I've never owned any version of Xbox, I gave up on Sony towards the end of the PS2's lifetime because it seemed like there was a shift away from the types of games I liked, I have kept up with Nintendo's platforms all my life and I do still buy games there (preferably physical copies most of the time), and on PC for decades I've mostly stuck to scavenging from super deep discount bargain bin selections on Steam (very very rarely buying anything too recent or above $5)
1 game a year is a big splurge for me, I can go years without buying a game.
Only time ads should ever be in a game is if the game was absolutely free to play. Even then it'd be annoying. Of course in universe fictional ads are fine (eg Nuka Cola)
Such a clear lack of creativity. Instead of commercials put the ads in-game. Duke Nukem destroys a wave of Pepsimen. Lara Croft finds a skeleton with a Nike jacket on. The Nina Turtles eat Pizza Hut. See. Not so hard.
I feel they're looking everywhere to save money and cut costs. Everywhere except their own overinflated paychecks...
I have gone and started to play old games on my C64. some of the best adventure games ever. Also I'm not required to connect to the internet. No desire to have adds shoved into my face so FU EA
I never cared if there were real world ads in video games. Like billboards, sidewalk benches. Time square. Maybe graffiti. But don’t make ads in cutscenes. Or don’t have the player character read from an ad script. But imagine the player character starts singing “J G Wentworth 877 cash now” for no good reason just like we do when taking the trash out or Landry.
...Who's 'we'?
@@OrionDawn15 Oh, wait a minute. there are people who don't sing TV ads to themselves in boredom? lucky. How about the myow mix ad. Maybe the tearable cars for kids ads? anyway if it was sprinkled here and there fine but don't have the player character hold up an item in a cut sean like it was an ad in the Truman Show. or are you saying you don't do laundry or take out the trash?
@@GreenPizza577 Huh.
But I agree, yes. If the ads are sprinkled in, non-intrusive but perhaps rather part of the environment(where it makes sense and would be natural) then it's not that big of a deal.
That wasn't a technical error, that was testing the waters.
There was sci-fi movie about chip in head forcing you to buy things called "Hardwired". People were bombarded with ads until they bought this product.
EA giving me more reasons not to buy their garbage
Ads will be the final nail in the AAA game coffin, there is a reason why mobile games are dying, too many ads and too many options to play retro and Indie games. I refuse to pay full price for any game, with ads or not. Never pre-order, Never buy year one, wait for steam sales. Boycott all toxic woke trash, ads and predatory monetisation practices.
And also boycott overuse of pixel art. It’s getting a bit tiring.
This is completely absurd. I mean, MAYBE I could forgive product placement in a $70 game depending on how jarring it is, but pop-up ads? I'd never buy a single game from that studio ever again.
I'm still mad at EA for killing Command and Conquer along with Deadspace.
My motto has always been I'm never paying for ads, and I'm never paying to get rid of them. R.I.P. EA.
What's wrong with ads?
@@BungieStudios In mediation, probably nothing. But they're never in mediation.
@BungieStudios Why does this even need to be a question?
and the meme of garbage EA money exploits proves true once again
They recently put a shop button in the UI menu of Sims 4, which is a single-player game. It is easy to accidentally click because it is right next to the online gallery button. It is basically an in-game ad button. The online Sims community have all voiced anger about it. It is bad enough that PC/Mac users have a popular mod that removes it. Unfortunately, the console players do not have access to the mod.
So between Disney and EA we're just....done with Star Wars right? I avoid gas stations that play ads at the pump because why the f**k would i pay for the "privilege" of being advertised to, what makes EA think they're so special?