Post #4060970
2026-07-17 04:28 UTC
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@lobut@lemmy.ca 2026-07-17 04:54
Only one I can justify is the EA sports games. Mainly because I refuse to play those games.
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@brsrklf@jlai.lu 2026-07-17 07:08
There are so few games I play in which ads would make sense. Hard to shoehorn a dorito ad in a fantasy universe or on a distant planet. I very much wouldn’t welcome it. There are a few odd cases I can remember, like freaking Tonic Trouble ages ago was another Rayman-like from Ubisoft and power-ups in that game (in Europe) were crunch bars from a vending machine. Or back when I played Splatoon they did an event in which you had to fight for a brand of noodles or some shit. Oh yeah, there’s that absurd thing in Mario Kart 8 where they added 3 mercedes mini-cars out of nowhere. It’s terrible but also so stupid it’s a bit funny, especially since it’s the only product placement they ever did in that game.