EA pisses players off again

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Adds near full-screen blip-vert style ads that kick in mid-gameplay (action replay sections in a fighting game, pretty pivotal places) to a game a month after launch and initial reviews. A $60 game.


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I think its funny that they probably had a meeting, and the marketing team pitched the idea of real ads playing because it increases the immersion.

All the suits nodded and agreed it was a good idea.
I found footage from that meeting:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekg45ub8bsk


I've been trying but I can't think of an example of where you have paid $60+ (or even just $1) for something and then additional monetization is added to it after the purchase for the pure benefit of the producer with no benefit to you the owner of the thing you paid for?

Can't think of a single instance.

Adding blipverts is not additional game related content, just like adding lootbox mechanics after a game has been out for months wouldn't, lootbox mechanics just add another barrier to gameplay - it's actually degrades the gameplay expiriance... as does adding blipverts. It's not removing bugs, It's not patching for balance, it's simply adding another revenue stream to the producer once a user base has been established.

Now above, I am aware I used the word "owner" and I am very aware digital mediums sell you a license to access the the thing you bought and do not technically sell it to you like you would own a bannana or a car etc... so thinking about it... when something changes in regards to a contract, in this case a licensed property, wouldn't you need to re-sign? You need to sign back up to whatever has changed in the license... and if the license already contains said thing which is added later as a clause or sub-clause, the license provider has to make you aware ahead of time that they are activating that part of the license going forward and you'd need to sign back up to it again...?

And if you didn't sign back up due to their modification of the licensing agreement, not yours... Would you be due a refund of some or all of what you had paid upfront? I mean one month, it's not a lot of game time if you have IRL commitments...?
 

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Well is not that advertisemnet in game are a new things, just looks at any racing game where there are real company sponsors alon the track or stikers to add to you car, the problem that really piss off players is that the adds where full screen in the middle of a reaply and obstruct (aka riun) the gameplay... of course the EA solution will grant them even more incomes and that is what metters...

It's amazing how people seam to forget how bas is a company behavior toward theyr customers 'tho: the lootbox-gate is not that far in the past, yet here we have another questionable way to rise money from the same company... 🤔

Don't worry in Star Wars squadrons the ads wait until you're lining up on the exhaust port before playing a 30 second advert for Code Red. You might not get that torpedo off, but you will definitely slam into it.
Hmm that makes me think we could offer some beer to the EA marketing board to introduce a TEST advertisemenet in that scenario... just need to find a way to sqeeze an Aurora into a SW universe and it will be perfect...
 

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Well is not that advertisemnet in game are a new things, just looks at any racing game where there are real company sponsors alon the track or stikers to add to you car, the problem that really piss off players is that the adds where full screen in the middle of a reaply and obstruct (aka riun) the gameplay... of course the EA solution will grant them even more incomes and that is what metters...

It's amazing how people seam to forget how bas is a company behavior toward theyr customers 'tho: the lootbox-gate is not that far in the past, yet here we have another questionable way to rise money from the same company... 🤔


Hmm that makes me think we could offer some beer to the EA marketing board to introduce a TEST advertisemenet in that scenario... just need to find a way to sqeeze an Aurora into a SW universe and it will be perfect...
Yep, they already had the ring-side ads and even an ad on the canvas of the ring itself, in the clip you can see the logo for the ad that played in the two blipverts was clearly on the floor of the ring too.

There is going overboard, and there is going full EA. You never go full EA.
 
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I found footage from that meeting:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekg45ub8bsk


I've been trying but I can't think of an example of where you have paid $60+ (or even just $1) for something and then additional monetization is added to it after the purchase for the pure benefit of the producer with no benefit to you the owner of the thing you paid for?

Can't think of a single instance.

Adding blipverts is not additional game related content, just like adding lootbox mechanics after a game has been out for months wouldn't, lootbox mechanics just add another barrier to gameplay - it's actually degrades the gameplay expiriance... as does adding blipverts. It's not removing bugs, It's not patching for balance, it's simply adding another revenue stream to the producer once a user base has been established.

Now above, I am aware I used the word "owner" and I am very aware digital mediums sell you a license to access the the thing you bought and do not technically sell it to you like you would own a bannana or a car etc... so thinking about it... when something changes in regards to a contract, in this case a licensed property, wouldn't you need to re-sign? You need to sign back up to whatever has changed in the license... and if the license already contains said thing which is added later as a clause or sub-clause, the license provider has to make you aware ahead of time that they are activating that part of the license going forward and you'd need to sign back up to it again...?

And if you didn't sign back up due to their modification of the licensing agreement, not yours... Would you be due a refund of some or all of what you had paid upfront? I mean one month, it's not a lot of game time if you have IRL commitments...?
I think Huawei phones do that nowadays...

EA Games. Challenge Everything.
And they did, just not the way we would have liked it...
Didn't they pull this same stunt with a previous sports title? Just maybe they did it on launch...
 

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Wait! People still buy EA games???!!!!!





HAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAhahahaahahahahahahahahah!
 

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If I was in charge of adding in ads into this sort of game, or any of their sports games, I'd randomly place them around the background to see if anybody notices ads for Viagra, Preparation H, Vagasil, KY Jelly, etc. Ads that make most people think that the people the ad is supporting has that sort of personal problem for us to enjoy a lol at them.
 

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Don't worry in Star Wars squadrons the ads wait until you're lining up on the exhaust port before playing a 30 second advert for Code Red. You might not get that torpedo off, but you will definitely slam into it.
Hmm... If they put blipverts in a $60 full price game... What do they have planned for the cut-price $40 Star Wars Squadrons?

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I would apologise to EA for the vitriol, but it just never ends. We on this forum are not so much canaries as miners trapped by a rockfall.
 
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