I never got into Android gaming because 90% of it is adware. If the PC landscape turns into this, you can bet your ass I’ll stop playing that as well.
Well the beauty of PC is that you could always jump ship to another distributor/developer if one turns into shit.
EA is already there, so it’s easy to play games from other devs instead XD
There are so many incredible indie games coming out these days too. Its just not worth buying the overpriced garbage big studios are trying con us into.
And if indie goes to shit too, we still have a solid 30 or so years of old games to play.
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Not installed one of their products in almost 2 decades now
I wont. There are thousands of good old games I’ve never played.
Nobody owns “The PC Landscape” though, that’s the beauty. Steam has a large share, but even that is not completely unbreachable.
No one owns the Android landscape either
For different reasons than usual, this comment deserves the reply: “Let me Google that for you”.
(Or: Epic/Fortnite would beg to differ)
Why don’t you go ahead and do that and come back with some links.
Here’s a pretty important one:
Reminds me which platform FDroid works on. And Obtainium. And Accrescent. And Epic Games Store. And Amazon store.
Games for android do exist that are good and bought outright. But not nearly as many as the other junk that’s out there.
For PC when I think ads in games I think sports games like ads in NHL rink boards and burnout paradise city.
I know they exist but I can’t be bothered to sort through the mountains of garbage to find them.
Definitely. Most I got were ones that I played on PC and had no idea android ones existed. Balatro is a good example. Knights of own and paper. And others.
Person who has developed a service to put ads in games says companies should think about putting ads in games.
"EA Advertising is a platform that’s directly integrated into Frostbite, the engine EA uses to make its biggest games, from Madden to Battlefield. The idea is to streamline what’s required to create custom ads for clients and then track how players “engage” with the ads. “Advertisers can now collaborate with EA in a privacy-safe way to improve targeting and gain deeper campaign insights,” the company wrote last month. “EA ensures ads are viewable, delivered to real audiences, and measured using industry-accredited standards in partnership with Integral Ad Science.”
Once again, my decades long boycott of EA is paying off.
Mine isn’t even an active boycott. I just don’t care at all for anything they make.
Public statements like this is why EA continually wins “Worst Company” over real assholes like Blackrock.
Do these execs really not grasp how many sales they slowly bleed by making modern triple A games unbearable…? Like they don’t actually have a captive audience, people can and do just play indie and old games instead.
Making games genuinely unbearable and pissing everyone off seems like such an obviously bad business decision, but being a VP requires being dumb as a brick I guess
Dost matter, they only estimate the pice of the game vs price of the game plus ad revenue, adjusted for maybe 5% missed sales. The highest number wins.
Advertising is brainwashing and should be illegal globally. No more ads!
There are better ways to finance stuff.
There are more people making independent video games today than at any point in history.
I just don’t understand the all-or-nothing perspective that video game social media pundits have.
Personally, I absolutely prefer indie art films generally, but my preference doesn’t mean that Michael Bay blockbusters shouldn’t exist, or that Universal Pictures should go out of business…
Not everything needs to be for everyone, and most things created aren’t created for ME.
I’m all for it. Everywhere there’s space for an ad to be blended into the background of the game to subliminally market to me should be utilized to its fullest.
The games will be free, right? The ads are what pays for it, right?
What happened, EA? Did five minutes already pass before you gave everyone something to hate about your greedy, corporate, pulseless guts?
I swear, nobody can have any hobbies nowadays without execs enshittifying everything.
The funny thing is they did used to do this back in the day with games like Crazy Taxi. It was a decent way to get some development funds as well.
They stopped doing it because I think it was too hard to gauge how much of am effect it actually had.
Knowing EA, they’re probably thinking about unskippable slop and not franchising ingame universe with billlboards and locations lol.
It was a hell of an effective advertisement on me for The Offspring.
YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAHHH
The whole point of my favorite games, especially the single player versions, is the escapism. The “I do not want to think about the current world or its problems”. You start throwing ads in the game, that aspect is completely removed. I will never play a game that has this in it. Walking through Tamriel and some fucking beverage or mobile game pops up and I’m gonna fire bomb some game execs million dollar house.
They’ve been saying this for 20 years.
Honestly I’m for it. I hope all the major players adopt this so we can watch the pillars of the gaming industry collapse.
From the wreckage will be a renaissance of developers whose priority in making games is that they’re good.
Even more product placement? I thought we already did this! Now we’re gonna have Google Ads telling me to buy some cheap thing from Temu or Shien that looks suspiciously sexual like a flesh colored body suit?
I thought EA had already been doing this with need for speed all the way back in Xbox 360 times?
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