I haven't bought the latest CoD games, but I know that even the old ones on 360 would advertise the newest one once it came out.
I even jumped into MW2 the other night on 360 and I saw a MW3 prompt. Halo has been doing it for a while too if memory serves.
My gametime.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?
Destiny is another oneTo me that's not a lot of examples. And one of those is another MS franchise.
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.Honestly, the ad makes sense in context of the game. If they showed a Coke commercial or some shit like that would be shitty. They are pushing their family of games for their intended audience.
Sounds like the kind of ads you'd see in a free demo or freemium app, not a full-price game.I just loaded FH3, the video played, I hit "A" to skip it, then the menu to pre-order came up and I hit "A" again. I would say it took an extra 3 seconds of pressing "A" twice and I was done with it...but yeah it was so INVASIVE.
This.Gross. Keep that freemium stuff out of paid products, please.
Xbox is the Hulu of consoles. I'm a Gold subscriber. Why the fuck am I seeing ads on the dashboard and in games?
Another thread shiting on MS, something's got to give.
Soon as I read that I was like ok.. this is a big deal?It's skippable, who cares.
To me that's not a lot of examples. And one of those is another MS franchise.
It's bad. The PS4 is my main system but I got the Xbox One for 4K disc playback and a few games. The amount of ads shoved in your face is embarrassing. I don't pay for Live so I'm hit with an ad (to pay for Live) before I resume playback of my game I want to play. I really wish you could disable it.
Although playing the ad when you started the game is pretty bad, most games do this with the message of the day splash screen advertising the next game. It's also pretty par for the course to advertise a game's own expansion in the game. Of all the games littered with micro transactions today to say feels like a mobile game I feel Horizon 3 is a lot farther from it than a lot of titles atm.
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.
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.
Hyperbole much.
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.
Slippery slope is considered a fallacy for a reason, my friend.
Just another one of GAF's bi weekly shit on Xbox threads.