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MS puts invasive ads for Forza 7 in FH3
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Doug Heffernan
Member
You must not play many modern games OP.
get2sammyb
Member
I noticed recently there are ads for FIFA 18 in FIFA 17. Fortunately they just sort of play without sound in specific menus -- it's not like you have to watch skip through them or anything.
Does anyone remember when WipEout HD added full-on commercials into the loading screens? That quickly got patched out if I recall.
Does anyone remember when WipEout HD added full-on commercials into the loading screens? That quickly got patched out if I recall.
To me that's not a lot of examples. And one of those is another MS franchise.
HighResTomato
Member
EA has been doing this for years, Activison posting about their new CoD entry in old games to.
It's not that big of a deal.
It's not that big of a deal.
Giftofgab24
Member
I don't think it's as bad as Sony putting an auto playing ad on the PSN store. If I don't press down as soon as the store loads, the ad starts playing. That one actually irritates me. I agree that it would be better to have no ads in any games, but this one doesn't seem too egregious to me.
Maintenance
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Hydranockz
Member
I really don't see any problem with devs putting ads for their future content in their existing content. I don't get how it is somehow invasive. What are they invading exactly?
What if we lived in a world where a sizable portion of any games playerbase aren't keeping track of game releases as closely as we might think? What if those players don't consume coverage of games in the same way? Wouldn't an in-game announcement actually be kinda neat?
What if we lived in a world where a sizable portion of any games playerbase aren't keeping track of game releases as closely as we might think? What if those players don't consume coverage of games in the same way? Wouldn't an in-game announcement actually be kinda neat?
Maverick-ick
Member
This is nothing new. For example Samsung have ads in their smart tvs. I'm so used to ads I don't bother. And this is ms having ads about another forza game. What's wrong with that? Don't see the problem.
bitbydeath
Member
You need to buy Xbox Red to get rid of those ads.
My gametime.
To Far Away Times
Member
Gross. Keep that freemium stuff out of paid products, please.
chronic_archaic
Member
Destiny is another one
Pretty sure EA advertises Battlefield 1 when you boot up 4
Nintendo literally shoves ads on your 3DS dashboard (you can opt out of this but still)
So this is the reason gaf is going to use to shit on F7 after all the positive gamescom impressions? Smart.
The ad is annoying indeed, but hardly the end of the world. Would be miles worse if it were for Halo Wars 2 or Office365 like someone mentioned already. Adversizing a Forza game to Forza owners on a skippable ad (which so far hasnt repeated for me after skipping it once), sorry, not gonna lift my pitchfork for that, too much hassle
The ad is annoying indeed, but hardly the end of the world. Would be miles worse if it were for Halo Wars 2 or Office365 like someone mentioned already. Adversizing a Forza game to Forza owners on a skippable ad (which so far hasnt repeated for me after skipping it once), sorry, not gonna lift my pitchfork for that, too much hassle
It doesn't though, Most people won't preorder and it's invasive and annoying. I could care less about any of the mainline forza games anymore and stuff like this doesn't help. Stuff like this is shitty for them to do no matter the company that does it.
The Faceless Master
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the Hulu of gaming.
I found this weird when I encountered this but definitely not invasive. That seems like an exaggeration to me. When I loaded and saw the video I was hyped thinking it was playing an introductory cutscene for the new dlc I had just bought. Turned out to be a trailer for Forza 7 which it let me skip... i found it harmless. *shrug*
Michael Armbrust
Member
That sounds pretty bad. It's stupid that things like this feel like they're becoming a trend.
Shin-Ra
Junior Member
Sounds like the kind of ads you'd see in a free demo or freemium app, not a full-price game.
This.
Electret
Member
You don't like Major Nelson's face perpetually on the sidebar? I'm still waiting for my Larry Hryb calendar, personally.
Your departure, maybe? The OP is entirely acceptable and within the TOS.
Soon as I read that I was like ok.. this is a big deal?
Feels a bit lackluster for something to rage about.
bitbydeath
Member
Shpeshal Nick
aka Collingwood
CoD was the first one that came to mind.
I know there's been others. But they don't jump out at me mainly because they don't bother me. I only remembered CoD because I played MW2 last week.
Didn't Deus Ex do something advertising a Square game or something during a loading screen recently?
Edit. yep
Panaphonics
Banned
Hyperbole much.
Beerman462
Member
I could skip it, but I didn't. SO INTRUSIVE!
Unknown Soldier
Member
The writing was on the wall when MS started inserting ads into Windows
tearsintherain
Member
Its a bit weird but its one time and I know a lot of people who play games and know absolutely nothing about upcoming games, I'm sure for them knowing about FM7 would be nice. If it came up every time I played (I play every week for forzathon) it would be fucking annoying, but a one time thing... eh, I can give it a pass.
Shin-Ra
Junior Member
If you don't pay for XBLG apparently it also forces an ad when you resume a suspended game.
Also again to the Hawk269 quote before, if you mashed A you'd skip the video ad but then choose Buy Now on the banner selection screen. They've deliberately swapped the skip/get out button so you have to consciously react to each screen.
Also again to the Hawk269 quote before, if you mashed A you'd skip the video ad but then choose Buy Now on the banner selection screen. They've deliberately swapped the skip/get out button so you have to consciously react to each screen.
Melchiah
Member
I've only seen that with mobile games, like Plants Vs. Zombies, and Destiny. It was unacceptable there as well, since I had paid for them, and wasn't going to get the sequels, let alone everything else PvsZ pushed to me. Luckily, the invasive popup ads can be blocked by playing PvsZ offline.
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I'd be infuriated, if that's what I had to do every time I return to the game.
The people dismissing this with a 'who cares' because it is skippable make me fucking sad.
How about a tiny bit of pushback to prevent our 70$ games from turning into an ad-ridden mobile-tier freemium experience. It playing plain video ads is unacceptable.
I can already envision the threads next year when the ads aren't skippable anymore. 'Dude it's just 30 seconds, you'll live, just go make a sandwich lmao'.
Fuck.
How about a tiny bit of pushback to prevent our 70$ games from turning into an ad-ridden mobile-tier freemium experience. It playing plain video ads is unacceptable.
I can already envision the threads next year when the ads aren't skippable anymore. 'Dude it's just 30 seconds, you'll live, just go make a sandwich lmao'.
Fuck.
This complaint about businesses running a business is out of hand. Not to mention they're showing you a game you clearly could be interested in since it's the sister series.
People want another example....nba2k does this. They display the next game on the scorers table during the game. Oh the horror.
Yall have been warning about the ad/dlc apocalypse since the horse armor. Always a slippery slope.
People want another example....nba2k does this. They display the next game on the scorers table during the game. Oh the horror.
Yall have been warning about the ad/dlc apocalypse since the horse armor. Always a slippery slope.
I mean this would be upsetting I guess if I hadn't experienced decades of trailers being put into movies I purchased, or even youtube showing me some ads before/during unless I pay for Red, or TV in general throwing commercials my way... that it has taken games so long to catch up is far more odd to me than a game showing you some ad.
Surface of Me
I'm not an NPC. And neither are we.
Slippery slope is considered a fallacy for a reason, my friend.
Just another one of GAF's bi weekly shit on Xbox threads.
J_ToSaveTheDay
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I used to be actively upset at logging into my Xbox 360 midway last generation because it used to open to a page that was like 80% advertisements, so this doesn't exactly shock me. I was really glad when they eventually scaled the ad splash down on first login page in the Xbox 360 UI, but it felt like there was a solid 2 or so years where it felt like I couldn't be connected to Xbox Live without it actively trying to sell me something.
I don't see it as shitting on Microsoft. I think that just shrugging off ads on paid games is a little too easy.
What if you get a Call of Duty ad every time you boot up Destiny 2, not when the splash screens are up, but after you load into the game? That's what this is like. Next time you open Battlefield 1, there's Battlefront II.
Ads in full price games is a little gross. It could have been a little window in the main menu.