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

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.

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

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.

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

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

Oh? What a coincidence; it was already there.

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

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

late stage capitalism goes

brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

I'll be very thoughtful about avoiding EA games.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

To be fair, AAA games are bullshit anyways. I believe I have never seen a modern AAA game that is not utter shit with EVERYONE complaining about it.

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

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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.