I never play EA slop, so… anyways.
Time is cyclical it seems. They did something just like this 20 years ago.
I remember when Quake Live introduced it, but it never really gained any traction.
A popular server-side mod for Counter-Strike (the 1.6 era) introduced in-map texture substitution for advertising as well… but I think it was pissed on by the community so much that it never saw widespread use.
Sounds like the time is right to try again.
Rs Vegas 2?
NFS Underground 2 had in-game advertising for Cingular and Burger King.
NFS Carbon was absolutely plastered with T-mobile advertising.
Finally!
If there’s one thing EA’s gaming lacked, it was an opportunity to accidentally click on something that tried to charge my credit card.
“After removing Holiday’s Ad Restrictions We estimate we can sell up to 80% of a user’s vision without inducing seizures” - Nolan Sorrento
And they keep asking why many people resort to piracy. Nothing is owned these days; I feel like they also want me to pay for breathing next year.
Kojima or whoever did it before him should’ve patented it so the disease doesn’t spread.
I dunno how many games EA makes set in the past or secondary worlds, but gauranteed it will drop. We may still get scifi games chock full of today’s brands.
I remember when EA was the Goat back in the Commodore 64 days. How far they’ve fallen.
turned around the time they bought westwood and killed off cnc franchise(technically) a decade later.
Greatest Offering Around Then?
Because “greatest of all time” implies it’s also great now… which is a time.
It does not. “Greatest of all time back in the day” does not imply it’s still the greatest. By your logic the future is also a time. As we don’t know it yet, nothing can ever be the greatest of all time, making the term meaningless.
“All time.”
So the term is meaningless for you? That’s fine.
Again, if something was the greatest of all time, it does not mean it still has to be. Otherwise the term is meaningless as even greater things might come in the future.
Your definition in your own words defines it as meaningless.
If you only take it in the most literal sense, sure. A pointless exercise, don’t you think? Sometimes words have a funny way of meaning more than one thing. For most this concept works and GOAT can be meaningful. No, I’m not talking about the animal. Just to be clear.
GOAT = Greatest of All Time, right?
Why not just say “great?”
Makes “of all time” meaningless if you overuse it.
Allow me to invoke Eddie Izzard… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rYT0YvQ3hs
It’s only meaningless if you’re pedantic.
It obviously means the greatest of all time so far because at the time you make the statement you cannot judge what hasn’t happened yet.
It gets more complicated when you’re saying it about a company or game in the past but I still think that it has meaning. It could mean that at the time, they were the greatest of all time (up until that point in time) but it could also mean that at this point in time that past version of EA was the greatest of all time (up until now, which is beyond the time that that version of EA existed).
We can’t know what’s going to be the greatest of all time in the future, only what’s the greatest of all time so far.
Who’s got that award?
A game developer with a consistently high hit rate in their output? Kojima, maybe? FromSoft? We’ve seen a lot of empires fall in recent years.
I’d add Don’t Nod, at least from what I’ve seen.
Really? They’ve been mostly misses from what I can tell. They don’t review very well or sell many copies for most of their games. Recent reporting indicates that Tencent no longer wants to finance them, and their future is shaky.
Very hot take but maybe Nintendo? I know, I know. They suck in some regards. But some of their games are still innovative.
Fun take but considering how they treat their fans I wouldn’t give them that award.
reminder that saudi arabia’s public fund has bought ea. they’re trying to squeeze out all the revenue they can. tumble down the enshittification pyramid
That’s true, although very simplified. The slightly less simplified version is that Jared Kushner’s private equidy firm and the Saudis took a huge loan to buy EA then loaded the company with that debt. EA will be forced to sell a huge chunk of their portfolio and layoff thousands of people. If they survive this somehow they will be a shadow of what once was but more likely they’ll simply vanish soon. This shit should be completely illegal but I would lie if I said I’ll miss EA. A few people at the top getting filthy rich by destroying the company seems like a very fitting end for them.
They won’t be missed, destroyer of game franchises, studios and pioneer in anti-consumer stuff and transforming games into gambling, children welcome.
It should be illegal to buy a company on loan and transfer that debt to the company. You should be required to get your money back via dividends or by building the company up and reselling it.
“I love it! That’s what’s been missing the whole time!” --EA Shareholders
Looks like another punishment for buying their games legally. Cracked versions don’t connect to their servers so they wont load ads.
I can’t wait to shoot my way around war torn half destroyed cities with pristine advertising signs in the next Battlefield.
I can’t wait to see gamers at large fail to boycott this.
EA you’re already known as the worst, you don’t need to prove the point any more…
UBISOFT is trying vie for that number 1 spot, they went so far as help produce a show on appletv+ to spread good propaganda bout itself.
Obviously not bad enough because people continue buying them.
games like diablo4(expansions) is what keeps people coming back to blizzard.
Which is pitiful, because D4 is just a giant MTX interface with some shiny graphics.
Between them, Ubisoft, and Blizzard/Activision, it’s been a frantic race to the bottom.
EA to my knowledge just has shitty business practices. Ubisoft at a minimum had a culture of sexual harrassers, possibly assaulters. Blizzard certainly had rapists. Ubisoft also with the pioneering always online DRM for single player games getting back to the games portion of their evils
Bethesda still manages to stay in the “honorable mention” category.
