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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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’m not even sure what games they make these days, but thoughtful is one thing these greedy corporate fucks are not.

I'll be very thoughtful about avoiding EA games.

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

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.

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 you were "being thoughtful" you wouldn't even be considering it...

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.

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

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"

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?

Don't buy EA! Easy solution.

I'm getting burnout paradise flashbacks

AAA: Acquire An Advertisement

If you sign up for super subscription++ we promise not to drain your blood while you play our games.

When I did a lengthy focus group for VR about 8 years ago, one of the questions they asked was how I would react to seeing ads in game and they probably got the most heated and emotional response out of me than any other question they asked me.

Well in this case... I will continue to not buy anything EA produces

"we'll be mindful about placing ads in our games because we're getting absolutely no revenue from new games we produce...which means they'll be everywhere."

And even more I see no reason to pay for their products. If they're going to be getting ad revenue then I'm sure as shit not giving you any more upfront. Bunch o' double-dipping twatmuffins

EA might just be responsible for an increase in literacy. Why play corpo trash when you can, I dunno, read books?

I'm surprised that the billboards and stuff in games are not ads already. So many racing a FPS games that have scenery of billboards and stuff, it's all prime real estate for ads.

Yes! Keep killing your company faster. Can't wait to see you go bankrupt.

Fuck you EA.

"We'll be very thoughtful entering the potential earnings into the relevant Excel spreadsheets, and then go ahead with it".

thoughtful

Thinking about all the money that could be in his bank account.

The only way I could see this not being a complete shit-show is if they integrate them into the game in a way that makes sense, which has been done in places before. Banners along the roadside in a racing game (which exists in real life), a sci-fi hologram advertising "new-new-new coke, now with added element-320" as you walk by, etc

But since it's EA we're more likely to get an ad for hemmoroid cream during a loading screen, and the loading screen will be extended to ensure it plays the whole ad

EA Games do not count as AAA

Since advertisers are already paying for EA games, we need not buy them.

Seriously though, only thing capitalism breeds is enshittification.

Imagine the absolutely massive grave they would have themselves if we were still in the golden age of console gaming, I hope not any more than now

The last video game that had ads included that I played was Yo! Noid, or Chex Quest

Honestly I'm shocked if they haven't put ads during matchmaking and around the stadium in their sports games. I remember that being a thing in the PS360 gen

Thanks Kojima

Hopefully they patent whatever method they use so that nobody else is tempted to make the same stupid mistake.

Sounds great! I’ll know exactly which products to never purchase

I would be okay with cerveza cristal ads like they had in chile while airing star wars haha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSgMWAi9YPA

Oh yay, my Sim can watch real ads in-between in-game TV shows while listening to Katy Perry in Simlish, wearing their official Diesel clothes, and putting on their MAC makeup.

Can't wait to be blasted with a stuff pack full of vintage Pepsi-Cola™ merchandise next!

I just want my ea stock to rise so I can finally sell that garbage... What a waste of money that was

Like how the NES game Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles had Pizza Hut ads? Or like how the NES and Genesis have McDonald's games?