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[UPDATE: IT'S A BUG (for now)] Apparently, Ubisoft is experimenting with pop-up ads in the middle of video games now
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MidGenRefresh
*Refreshes biennially
If I could replace US politics in the middle of video games with pop-up ads, I would happily do so.
Peroroncino
Member
I know Ubisoft replaced their head with their ass, but I don't think they'd be that stupid, has to be a glitch or something.
BbMajor7th
Member
You can squeeze three ad breaks into a twenty minute TV episode - unavoidable that they're going to squeeze them into 100-hour open world games.
tommycronin
Banned
Even if the video is faked it's good to have everyone talking about this kind of thing and being on the same page.
"I don't see the problem it's just a small ad that you press B to get rid of"
3 fella? Or 3 fellas. I was strongly against the ad.
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Cyberpunkd
Member
Then the ad will be bigger
Then there will be two ads
Then you will need to hold down the B button, and not click it
Then you will have a short timer before you can hold the B button
Then the timer will get longer
etc., etc.
Yeah they will see how far they can push people. I was just taking the piss out of people who were defending that crap.
I'm nobody
Member
They had ads in rainbow six Vegas to join UK navy
Once this dam breaks, it will be all over gamepass and similar such services. Only a matter of seconds. It will start gradually as gamers are egineered into accepting it, unless we all stand the fuck up and make them regret it. Microtransactions, imcomplete games, we failed on ever hill. This is the one to die one.
MagiusNecros
Gilgamesh Fan Annoyance
They should add an option to toggle off ads from settings. If there is anything I hate more it's popups while I am playing a game. This shouldn't even exist.
Advertisements likes this are common in shitty mobile games. Guess that's where "mainstream" games are heading. Advertisements, Cash Shop, MTX, etc.
Advertisements likes this are common in shitty mobile games. Guess that's where "mainstream" games are heading. Advertisements, Cash Shop, MTX, etc.
ComputerBlue
Member
Gross
The Cockatrice
Gold Member
Ubisoft is the best company when it comes to pushing people away from their products. Keep up the "good" work!
Bumblebeetuna
Member
Damn I just started a play through of all the mainline Ass Creed games a couple days ago 
King Dazzar
Member
Dont worry, Xbox home screen and boot up ads have been training you for this.Damn I just started a play through of all the mainline Ass Creed games a couple days ago
King Dazzar
Member
The fear is, as I'm sure you know, practises like this can spread everywhere.
WitchHunter
Banned
And why is Ubisoft's headquarters not being burned down by the fans? Do gamers really swallow everything? It's not enough that they violently slit throats, pee on and dismember mythological figures, play games with seriously sick satanic imagery, paying exorbitant prices for a fucking power plant like GPU that is actually used to fund AI research, help aberrant "virtually resurrected" secret societies in games and other reprehensible things that noone with a sane mind would do in real life, plus pay 60 bucks for half done, not finished games, also beta test them, and now they're bombarded with ads for new titles... : DDD
For a cow of justice, that sounds like too much... I have to call Chicken and we have to sort things out.
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DaGwaphics
Member
Games better be damn good if I'm going to have to endure this. LOL
Cyberpunkd
Member
I got an idea:
A DLC that is a paid tonic that removes the ads but only for the duration of the tonic e.g. 24, 48, 96 hours, then they go back and you have to buy the DLC again like a consumable.
Shadowstar39
Member
They said the same thing about "always online, online digital future", loot boxes, micro transactions, map packs, and subscriptions, now look where we are.
These pubs will do anything they can if there isn't enough push-back. Out of all those things i listed only loot boxes were walked back. Other things they find a way by re-naming something or using something else as a Trojan horse. Like Game Pass... don't you want your free games for $20 a month and a always online digital future? Map packs aren't hear but now we have season packs. No more expansions instead we have 100 micro dlcs, "you can download only what you want" for $5 a peice (when before $30 expansion would cover everything).
Push back and voting with your wallet is the way, but it only works when it's maintained. Too many people will just buy the next thing and say 'muh its not a big deal'. That energy allows them to continue.
He's one of those "just hit B" bumblebees:
Interact
You can hit B. It’s not hard.
Also you have to hit more than one button to buy the game. Hitting the button to buy on the ad would still take you to the product page, then you’d have to confirm payment method, then confirm the purchase. And that’s assuming you don’t have any security on your account that requires you to enter a passcode before purchase, which is something everyone should have on all consoles.
The bellyaching about this is ridiculous, even for GAF.
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SJRB
Gold Member
I got an idea:
A DLC that is a paid tonic that removes the ads but only for the duration of the tonic e.g. 24, 48, 96 hours, then they go back and you have to buy the DLC again like a consumable.
You buy a Ubisoft game for 80 bucks that can only be played after you give yourself a lethal injection that is included in the box and you have to pay Ubisoft 10 bucks a week for the suppressant.
If you're readying this, Yves: call me. There's plenty more where this came from.
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Ainem Enamas
Member
I'M DANCING SO HARD RIGHT NOW!
Cyberpunkd
Member
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Here’s a thought; why not release a playable demo instead of a shitty ad that no one wants invading their spare time?
wvnative
Member
Shadowstar39
Member
And look what happened to mobile games. Complete horseshit . There is no real games there anymore. Its all made for you to buy stuff in game stuff, coins or subscriptions. In the past you could do a on time larger purchase and unlock everything, get rid of ads or they had games that were full no iap.... now most don't even give you that option. Some would require paying $100s of dollars to get the full benefit.
I lucked out by being grandfathered in to some apps for a lifetime membership...all was good until the "new version of the app" required a sub, lifetime was "only for version 1 of the app" . Shit recently seen this same behavior in office applications.. it never ends.
Couple that with a lot of the good non mtx/iap mobile games being de-listed as they remove games that don't get updated regularly or aren't up to date with latest os and those good old games that didn't have the bs are stuck only playable on older devices. I know as I have run into this multple times on both Apple and Android. My point is if they can get away with it they will.
You see the same trends in gaming. Its a race to the bottom. Those mobiles "games" a lot of them don't resemble games anymore. Barely any have two player pass and play its all "online multiplayer" only, so they can maximize cash shop.
This happens more and more with consoles too. How long before "collectathons" a staple in ubisoft modern games, is monitized? Ads is the next step, slowly boiling that frog...
F2P, Gaas, Subscrptions (this is bad too, I play song quiz with my wife on echo and its $10 a month with no alternative apps to try, and they know it. So I don't buy and just do the free stuff, even though they could easily have my money as I would buy it for a $30-50 one time fee, but not even a option. So they don't get any money from me, but get $10 a month from idiots.
Where do you think console is headed with gamepass, gaas, subs, mtx? Only thing mobile has on console games as they said f-off to woke shit. They know sex sells and uses it to their advantage. Consoles will eventually give you all the bad of mobile markeplace and couple it with ugly ladies and lecturing "the message"..... Its a horrible future
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Bumblebeetuna
Member
More like a $70 Ass Creed game becomes $80 for the ad free version.
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
Not a problem if the game is FTP.
Like they always do. They have almost all of their games with some of the best gameplays out there.
Carmen Winstead
Member
Please guys, just don't buy the newest Avatar game. Vote with your fucking wallets.
And if you really want to play it, just buy a used copy of Far Cry 3. May be worse graphically but it's structurally the same game.
And if you really want to play it, just buy a used copy of Far Cry 3. May be worse graphically but it's structurally the same game.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
The ad was not a fake, it was a "technical error"
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Ads on dash board and ads in the middle of playing a game aren't the same thing.
What is with the disingenuous correlation between the two here by multiple users?
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Ads on dash board and ads in the middle of playing a game aren't the same thing.
What is with the disingenuous correlation between the two here by multiple users?
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Thirty7ven
Banned
Pop deez Ubi
Putonahappyface
Member
Do it you scummy bastards and I'll never touch one of your games again!