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[–] xenoclast 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Gamers continue to buy the games by publishers that do this and will continue to put up with it as they slowly boil like frogs.

It's difficult to fight the slow conditioning that started with horse armor and Farmville. There's no escaping it until we replace capitalism with something better.

[–] Ultraviolet 12 points 1 year ago

The problem with the boiling frog metaphor is they would only stay in the water after being lobotomized.

Actually that makes perfect sense, carry on.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

They are doing fucking what?!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Imagine buying Ubisoft games.

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[–] half_built_pyramids 18 points 1 year ago

I already don't buy Ubisoft games. Which of you spineless lukes is bankrolling this crap?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

What did you expect from a company whose logo is a turd seen from above!

[–] Touching_Grass 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

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

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[–] chakan2 14 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

but there's no good reason for studios to insert ads in the middle of a game

"Au contraire!"

— Ubisoft, highly likely.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Yet another reason to continue my boycott of Ubisoft.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

In other news: Ubisoft's revenue are up 14% year on year in September

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