Looks like another punishment for buying their games legally. Cracked versions don’t connect to their servers so they wont load ads.
Oh no, don’t make me not buy your product even more. I’m already at 0.
Maybe we can pre-order and cancel…
“I love it! That’s what’s been missing the whole time!” --EA Shareholders
If the game is not good on its own and requires ads to be profitable… Then it’s not worth buying anyway
Thinking in terms of “need” is wrong for a business. They aren’t there to make a good product and the money is just to cover all the costs. Their goal is profit maximization. If there’s profit they could be extracting, but aren’t, they won’t make the numbers bigger and the shareholders will be sad.
Ads are a gas. They expand to fill all available space. If there’s a place an ad COULD go, then it WILL go there eventually.
They could offer it for free instead with that.
Free games with MTX and ads and shit are all the rage anyway
Im still baffled by all the money some games make off cosmetics.
Cosmetics in paid loot boxes are a serious issue, but if you can make money to help pay for your game with non paid lootbox cosmetics, all the more power to ya, but i don’t understand it hah.
Honestly, anyone buying EA games deserve it.
Running through a bombed out kitchen in a ‘call of battle strike’ game, hesitate when I see the oven is full of condoms and the cabinets full of luxury watches.
You now have 300 condoms in your inventory and an intriguing side mission with your fellow soldiers.
Fitgirlblockorigin
“Fun” to see them go for it again. I remember they had ads in Battlefield 2 for Nvidia and Intel. I can’t quite remember if they said they wanted the ads to be dynamic all the way back then as well or if the one-and-done billboard were intended.
TV timeouts during the quarters of Madden games. They’ll do a skippable halftime recap then 5 minutes of unskippable ads. Make it like a real NFL broadcast.
Who… Buys… EA games? I haven’t given them a dime shit since they launched Origin.
Yeah fuck all that.
I think I haven’t played a single EA title in a decade, will continue to do so.
I don’t really mind if it doesn’t break the immersion or lower the quality of a game.
If it’s some unskipable add or some big billboards for Pepsi in a medieval game, I do mind.
Time to buy Paralives!
And they keep asking why many people resort to piracy. Nothing is owned these days; I feel like they also want me to pay for breathing next year.
