Ubishit pause function comes with ads now
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Imagine being willing to deface your "art" like this.
It's called selling out and unfortunately that's capitalism baby. Gotta make that money
"Selling out" would be accepting money from someone else to betray your principles.
This is just naked greed. And "capitalism" has nothing to do with the human vice of greed.
Is the capitalism with you in the room right now?
Well, at least you're accurately named...
Actually, inputting propaganda into artwork is a generally a communist tactic, historically. The ability for individual people to be allowed to own and amass wealth on their own has little to nothing to do with including propaganda in pause screens, even "advertising" propaganda.
I understand where you're coming from, but I don't know if I can agree. By your own definition of how propaganda in art is used then America would be a communist state in that case. Have you seen the drivel coming out of Hollywood? And not even recently, even older stuff, like true lies, it's all just propaganda to get you to hate Muslims and want to go to war with the middle east which America had such a boner for during that time, and shit, still does. Propaganda has no allegiance to a political structure, communist, socialist, capitalist, they all use propaganda.
We are slowly getting closer to in game commercials. And I don't mean a Nokia on a billboard (splinter cell) or a banner for dlc (hitman) or a promotion for another game in the same library (mirage)
I mean stomping on a Goomba and then a pop up for a Mazda SUV appears
There was a short-lived handheld system from 2005 called the Gizmondo that tried to do exactly this with a more budget-friendly version.
However, that company was wrapped up in such a big financial mess that that function never got implemented.
Imagine how bad things could have gotten if they did put constant advertising on that console.
Already have.
A few years ago, NBA 2K put commercials for a show called Snowfall in its loading screens.
Players HATED it. It's a major reason I quit playing them, despite how good the games themselves are.
In game billboards can at least add to the atmosphere depending on the game, but fucking pop up ads will be the thing that makes me instantly drop a game. I barely tolerate that shit in my free mobile chess game, I am not going to tolerate that in a game I paid good money for.
That already happens. Check out Monster Energy drinks in Death Stranding.
But everyone loved that one. How does Reedus live shotgunning only cans of Monster for healing? Kojima. And it was so hilariously placed that one of the big points against the Definitive Edition was that they removed them.
Other people might've, I thought it was despicable. Never touching another Kojima game after that. Its ridiculousness does not push it back over the line of acceptability, for me. That would just reinforce the idea that advertising in games is okay if it's brazen enough. No, thank you.
I won't fault you for that. It honestly felt so on the nose and laughable that it didn't even register as an ad to me, and more like "Kojima really likes Monster." The same way they also shoved in a line for "Ride with Norman Reedus" when you ride a bike, which is so ridiculous it loops into being hilarious.
I vaguely recall ads along the walls of the track in old racing games, but can't name a specific one.
EA's Burnout: Paradise Remastered has them on billboards all over the place. When the servers were live for the PS4 version, there were branded cars too. One of the best cars had Wal-Mart livery.
Asscreed has been cancer for a decade, but this is a new low.
Despite the fact this looks like an internal popup, this type of ad should legally be classified as adware and distributing software with this crap should be legally classified as malware distribution.
I remember chatting with someone who worked at Epic around the time the Epic Launcher started popping up sales ads. They asked me what I thought of the ads, and I was honest with them: I said at first I thought it was malware and I had a virus. And I don't like it at all. They were surprised to hear that response.
Forget 3rd party launchers, more than once I have been fooled by the windows operating system. When they added that pride flag search bar and when they added popups about chrome "using too much battery" or whatever the fuck, animated ads in the start menu, all sorts of shit. Tactics that would easily be classified as malware just a few years ago.
If you use Windows, at least use a Classic Shell overlay of some kind. Eww, default Windows.
If even one person buys it, the suits will pat themselves on the back for not leaving money on the table.
Some people fear another 1983 style video game crash. Me? I'm begging for one.
This is from Assassin's Creed odyssey and apparently it opens every-time you use the world map.
So not just new games, but even their old ones get patched into having it.
In 5 years time, we will have in-game ads, microtransactions, macrotransactions, and dlc for $80 USD games that are always-online (not including deluxe editions, etc) and gamers will buy it while defending the practices as something that "doesn't effect the gameplay" and parroting the statements of how expensive games are to make by corporate executives who have no vested interest in managing budgets reasonably. Since gaming was always seen as a more "nerdy" medium, the audience is full of pussy-whipped, depressed consoomers who will buy any slop thrown at them while convincing themselves that it "isn't that bad." It's why Gamergate was a failure, why the industry has completely embraced leftism and SJW bullshit, and why the industry has become more brazen about the nickel-and-diming of the audience.
And besides maybe plugging in GPT for conversations, game AI will be just as dumb as it is today, game design will be the same, with the only tech advancements being more polygons.
And the increased polygon count will be more of a result of incompetent Indian contractors rather than intentional progress. The advancement of technology will be used to (barely) minimize the damage caused by an incompetent workforce.
Anyone that's enough of a retard to still support Ubisoft is a faggot that deserves to be mocked. In fact that's how I feel about any of the complaints about "AAA" games nowadays. Making people feel too embarrassed to admit they still buy this trash could be one way to help kill it off.
Welcome to the future!
I remember the game prototype which used its ingame advertisement on its city ad boards, which were jarring enough since it was not region locked to English ads..
Games as a service nigga!
This isn't new though. I remember being annoyed the wizardry 8 closing screen had an add for computer hardware.
Blades of Steel, an otherwise-fun hockey game from Konami, had ads for Contra, Jackal and Gradius after the second period.
"All Your Friends Will Want It"
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One of those ads had an actual (very short) playable shooter with a little boss and everything.
Always thought it was "makes the pass," but yes.
It's funny looking back at it now though.
This reminds me of Ready Player One where that corporate guy is showing off how much add space they can take up on an Oasis display before causing epilepsy
Or "ow my balls"
Subscription based access where you pay a monthly fee and then an additional one off fee for each individual product and they run advertising and sponsorship within while accessing and selling your personal data is slowly becoming the model of the future. It keeps you tied in with a service, has you pay for a licence, displays adverts and requires your personal information all to maximise profit and limit consumer freedom.
Everything will go this way unless everybody pushes back against it. Not just video games but utilities, your alarm clock, shopping, websites, white goods - you name it - if it provides you "value" as Louis Rossmann says - it will adopt this model.
never played an ubisoft game after they required Uplay garbage
I guess they have a set number of ads they're supposed to run this year, and since they decided to pull the ads off Twitter (due to Media Matters) the only place they can put them is in their games?
The irony of it all is that 15+ years ago, a few game developers experimented with the idea of ad-supported games that enabled them to give many of their good games for free. and the ads were not as intrusive as they are now especially in paid products and services.
This is the death throes of a companies that is refusing to do what it needs to do to survive: cut management. The amount of managers in these AAA companies (and most companies in general) is so absurd that it’s almost one to one with employees. If you search, I guarantee that there are a few managers that don’t manage people at all.
Managers at least have some theoretical value in, well, managing their departments. I think the core rot is the fact they've got entire departments that are unnecessary: Fold HR's core duties (payroll, payroll taxes) into Accounting, fire the diversity studies departments in their entirety, and you're probably looking at halving your employee expense already.
Don't buy their shit, but if you must, at least block their adservers (host file or pihole).