I will, in turn, be very thoutful about buying any of your games.

“We’ll be very thoughtful about how to absolutely maximize our profits from this”

I mean, they’ve already been getting revenue from product placements in their sports games, many of which sell at or near AAA prices already.

"Our research shows that we can fill up to 82% of the visual field before inducing seizures!"

Ohhh so games will be cheaper because they'll be subsidized right?... right?..

EA Ads, they're in the game!

Feel free. I stopped playing EA games and AAA titles years ago. You all enshitificated it enough as it is that I left awhile ago. Adding ads will only harden my resolve to never pick up another title.

Oh, ok. I haven't bought an EA game in over a decade, and the one that I was gifted ended up being broken and nearly unplayable, so I'll just continue abstaining from them.

Fuck EA. I'll never forgive them for Westwood.

So we will have to instal ad blocks for video games?

Oh no! If only there were thousands of other games I could play instead

To be fair, the ads might bring a sense of pride and accomplishment to the game.

I will continue to not play EA games. Business as usual.

EA ads..... it's in the game!

Let's add EA to the list of companies I'm boycotting.

Oh? What a coincidence; it was already there.

Companies used to do this, but stopped when every game reviewer called them out on it. It was always in kinda shitty games too. You can rest assured that EA is fully capable of making shitty games with ads in them.

I'll be very thoughtful about avoiding EA games.

I remember the days when games were 30 dollars, had a couch co-op mode, and a full single player campaign made by a team of just a few people.

Now we require in-game ads to sustain the development cost of the games? Somethings wrong with AAA if that's the case.

It's only a matter of time before this leaks into all AAA games, I hate capitalism.

late stage capitalism goes

brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

EA: "If you want no ads, please buy our AAAA games"

Haven’t bought a EA or Ubisoft game in the last ten years or more. They can put all the ads they want on their games.

If they were very thoughtful then they'd already realize that it's a stupid-ass idea.

Of course they are, dystopian future novels are just manuals for business people.

The game better be free. I'm not paying to see ads. No chance. I'll find a copy on the high seas that has that bullshit removed.

EA is really pushing for their products to be pirated at this point like no one will put up with ads on their 60 bucks triple a game

Their games are already only bought by addicts so... Yeah nobody with a brain buys EA games anyway.

They been doing that with Need for Speed for decades. Surprised they didn't spread it to the rest of the company earlier.

All big games will have this from now on. Same as with microtransactions, very few have non anymore.

Next will be: "Watch X more ads, to speed up the grind"

Don't buy EA! Easy solution.

That's it, that's the final straw for me. I'm a socialist now.

Anyone remembers the In-Game Billboards in their older racing games like NFS and Burnout?

I'm getting burnout paradise flashbacks