>Speaking with The Game Business, Ball says rising development costs coupled with increasing hardware prices (thanks, AI, for the RAM crisis) have created a serious problem for game companies, and seems to believe in-game ads — implemented with careful restraint — could help solve it.>"There is a two-sided problem. The costs have gone up way too high on development, and at the same point, everyone feels terrible with prices going up on hardware or software or microtransactions. That is a challenge. It’s not good if that is the only option," he said. "I think the best evidence comes from the [TV] streaming space. In excess of 100% of net adds in the United States for years and years have been on the ad-supported tier.">"That has not excluded anyone from ad-free experiences. Those products are still there. They’re still popular," Ball continued. "The question is not 'Can we cram ads in everything?' The question is, 'Are there opportunities that allow the people who can’t afford, or wouldn’t try, to have an onboard to our properties and franchises?'"https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/oh-boy-xboxs-chief-strategist-is-floating-the-idea-of-in-game-adsB-b-but I thought Microsoft were supposed to be le heckin pro-consumer, pro-gamer company? What the fuck happened Xbros?!?!
who's that ball guy? i don't remember ever seeing him around spencer, and now suddenly he's getting headlines and talking shit about /our girl/ on twitter
Wtf do RAM prices have anything to do with the cost of games?
>>740908953They did this in the past, rainbow six Vegas had real ads on the billboards/bus stops called from a microsoft api
>>740909109Don't ask questions, goy. Just pay for Goy Pass and consoom the advertisements.
>>740908953pic related is over 20 years old
>>740909209>>740909348Not the same thing.What Xbox are talking about is literally pausing the entire game mid-play session to show you full video advertisements. Like what you'd get on Youtube or Twitch.
>>740908953i don't think too many people are buying the "xbox is back" narrative outside of paid influencers and shill farmsbut realistically this is one space where MS can gain traction--an ultracheap game streaming service supported by commercial breaks or something similar. maybe paired with a cheap playstation portal style device. they could charge advertisers super high premiums to reach a young, engaged audience. reading between the lines it's clear this is where MS is going, and they think they can own the cloud despite fumbling console hardware
>>740909451Yea it sounds pretty gay, but I wouldn't mind sitting through some ads if it meant I could play an hour or so of a game for free to decide whether or not it was worth buying.So long as they don't start creeping the ads into the paid version as well (they will).
>>740909729>Yea it sounds pretty gay, but I wouldn't mind sitting through some ads if it meant I could play an hour or so of a game for free to decide whether or not it was worth buying.Good goy!
>>740909348Battle.netCounter-Strike 1.6Need For Speed 6th genBurnout Paradise
>>740908953Oh and dynamic pricing depending on how stupid and gullible specific people are or how "extremist" they are, etc?Let's FIFA 2026 WC this shit.
>>740909109If anything they should make them cheaper because now they're catering to weaker hardware and therefore cutting costs in development.It's an oxymoron right?
Stop hiring 6000 international developers to make one game and you'll find development costs go down
>>740910090Oh and wasting billions on AI that need those pajeets to code them, pajeets that just use AI to debug them and fail in the process, therefore requiring yet more indian devs to help them out. Rinse and repeat. The pajeet-AI spiral.
>>740909109Not the cost of games, the cost of hardware, the Xbox itself. They don't want to sell it at a bigger loss.
>>740910193>Not the cost of games, the cost of hardware, the Xbox itself. They don't want to sell it at a bigger loss.Thanks to the RAM crisis that Microsoft themselves directly caused by investing billions into AI slop.
Really struggling to see the point in buying gay overpriced consoles when I can just emulate all the best games for free and keep them on an XHD away from microshaft's ability to cut off subscription content. Speaking of...
>>740908953But youtubers told me that Xbox won E3 2026.
>>740910496Youtubers are on Microslop's payroll.
>>740910327>buy up every single bit of RAM, including RAM that doesn't exist, driving up the price of RAM>oh no xbros RAM is expensive now hope you're ready to shell out more cash for your goyboxand people actually fall for this shit too
>>740910327AI which btw still struggles to tell you how many g's there are in "Google".>this is why you need to pay more for everything>you are the problem for complaining, we're not the problem for making an obvious mistake and covering it up with bullshit and propaganda, again after covid
>>740909348Desert Combat never had this problem
>>740908953Liar liar pants on fire
It depends on the ads really. I don't want my gameplay constantly interrupted by 30 second commercials the way phone games are but for example if I'm playing a racing game and there's a billboard on the side of the track for coca cola I wont mind
>>740908953People would sadly probably trade 60 dollar games for ads, better than 80 with no ads. The ad version of Netflix is popular.
>>740910420I barely play AAA games because they're so full of ethical bullshit now that they just bore me to tears. Instead I start gaslighting people in real life and starting fights. Like the good old days.Hope it was worth the ethical horseshit that think tanks push into this garbage for the sake of credit ratings.
>>740910786>Copecopecopecope>PR spinNobody gives a fuck.We know what you said.We are done with Microsoft's Jewery. No more.
>>740909729>Yea it sounds pretty gay, but I wouldn't mind sitting through some ads if it meant I could play an hour or so of a game for free to decide whether or not it was worth buying.kys
>>740910856>called out on his retarded narrative>n-no PR spin!Kill yourself. Preferably yesterday.
>>740910786>I think ads should be used to offer more affordable alternatives [...] similar to Netflix and Disney+>At no point did I even mention in-game ads???
Advertisement and risky lending cause more harm to children than porn or social media. Yet neither are banned?
>>740911019OP said during video games. That's not true.
Advertisement should be banned ay.It's literally nothing but biased information and it leads to nothing but poor technology, media, institutions, law, medicine, etc. Think of the children.
>>740910910Imagine spending your life doing damage control for the world's scummiest big-tech corpo that invests billions into AI slop and Israel.
>>740908953Based jeeta queen bringing XBOX back just like she said she would
>random coke billboard in gamewho cares>actual ad rolli will not be playing
>>740908953>play for 10 minutes>take a 2 minute break for adswhat's the big deal? that's how TV works, you'll get used to it.
>>740911415I haven't watched an advertisement in like 15 years. kys
>>740911247By jeeting up the Xbox with durga tier advertisement everywhere at tasteless inappropriate times soullessly?Yeah that cuts out.
>"I don’t have anything to report on Microsoft’s plans. I’ve frankly not read into them despite my interest in the category,"Clickbait thread
>>740911520Man, turning on a tv occasionally almost feels like a weird experience now to me. How did we tolerate this garbage indoctrinated to us tantric-ally like a cult ritual for so long?It's insanity.Advertisement is a cult and should be banned, period. It is a disgusting thing. It merely tries to indoctrinate you into it's cult. Then the platforms relying on such forms of adverts gaslight people into thinking that those that question advertisement are radicals and the problem. These are people that promote, endlessly, bullshit that wastes money and costs people their lives or recommends them horseshit that will harm them in some way. All for the sake of their masters in these monopolies of marketing. What's even funnier is that, having done finance, people in the banking industry consider this a problem to growing the economy. And yet nothing changes and we still regurgitate this poor method of "getting people to move" in absurd ways for the sake of producing literally fucking nothing at times except debt that benefits absolutely no one. A kafka-esque nightmare. Nothing short of it.This is why advertisement should be far more regulated to the point of being non-existant. It wastes money and it doesn't really benefit the economy on a macro scale. The benefits to products and services are short term and will eventually burn off the demand for their product and their brand.
>>740911553Xbox games will look like TV channels do in India. Schizophrenic ad-filled clutter all over the screen while the actual game is relegated to a small box.
>>740911685Then why are you posting?>telling the truth is clickbait now because it doesn't align with my safe sheltered mindset or things advertised to me relentlessly in other ways that my brain just absorbedThat being said, it is an opsec thread in some ways.
>>740912002Clearly Indians hate this shit like white people, yet they still push it because they have this feeling of desperation that most whites do not have, having lived in very desperate circumstances in India.It's kinda sad. I've definitely seen them be more urgent and desperately to promote things in uncouth ways though. Like they don't have the time to think about it too much. It's definitely triggered by anxiety and self doubt I think.
>>740912164Though this said, I'm now seeing whites/jews and asians act like this more. It's like old school door-salesmen behaviour. So monkey see monkey do? Or is it them becoming more desperate too?Not good at all. A very very bad sign.Considering microsoft/windows was becoming very very open in many ways and functional again for the first time since the 80s it's sad it's gone backwards since the GFC.Seeing Linux carrying windows nowadays is... alarming. It's no longer competition, they literally combine linux into windows nowadays. Linus looks stressed.
>>740912002>BIBI + MODI >FRINEDS FOREVER >INDIA/ISRAEL SUPERPOWER 2022
>>740912164>Clearly Indians hate this shit like white peopleI really doubt that. A hallmark of third-world living is putting up with shit that any first-worlder with a brain would find intolerable, especially in India, a country that sees nothing wrong with shitting in the streets.
>>740908953>XBOX IS GOING TO BECOME A LEADING GAME COMPANY AGAIN!>announce layoffs>announce game studio closures>announce ads during gamesI hope when microsoft finally dissolves their gaming division they sell rare's shit off to a good studio
>>740912436Rare themselves are fucked. They have been infected by the Microslop brainrot and have no desire to work on anything but live service slop anymore.The IPs should be sold off to Nintendo where they belong. Let Nintendo's internal studios take a stab at developing a new Banjo, and give Conker to Retro.
>>740912002>B-B-BUT THE JEETA WAS SUPPOSED TO SAVE XBAWKS!I hope those straights that had the hots for her realize she's just another street shitter.
>>740909729Holy fucking shit, consolefags these days are literally on par with mobilefags.
>>740909729>play an hourAnd then in a year or two it will be two breaks of the same length (double the ads) every half hour.Then it will be every fifteen minutes.And dipshit retards like yourself will defend it because >hurr durr but it's freeIt ceases to be a free demo when you are being beamed literal brainwashing material to try and make you buy irrelevant garbage. At that point you have become the product being sold. You're either an actual retard who is more mentally deficient than a chimpanzee due to lacking basic pattern recognition or you're a shill. Either way fuck you, your type makes the world worse for the rest of us.
>>740912604>consolefagsXboxfags*
>>740911158Sony?
>>740912604These aren't "consolefags," they're Microsoft's army of paid shills posting from an e-cafe in Uttar Pradesh.Actual players have never wanted what M$ is selling, hence why they've gotten their asses kicked every generation in consoles and cucked by Steam on PC.
>>740912963Pretty sure the 360 beat the PS3 in sales, and the fat was certainly more powerful than the PS2
>>740913039>Pretty sure the 360 beat the PS3 in salesPS3 outsold 360 by the end of the gen.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_game_consoles#Best-selling_consoles
>>740913121>You might have finished the race first, but I kept running 500m more after the finish line, so I won
Unless you count vidya trailers as an ad then the last time I bought something because I saw an ad for it was old spice deodorant because of Terry Crews. I don't see how making me see modern day ads in a game will change that. Thanks for reading.
>>740913039The 360 came in dead last. The Kinect pretty much killed it mindway through the generation. That and they fixed the RROD problem eventually so retards stopped inflating the sales by buying a new Xbox every few months.
>>740913121>PS3 sales got better as video games got worseSounds about right
It's funny because this mid-game unskippable ad shit already exists on consoles, and as you'd expect, it's in sports shit.https://youtu.be/zszLy-IYUf4?t=7
>>740913317And of course the ad is for VRslop.
>>740913121>the generation ended when sony says it didI'm noticing>>740913257and the PS3 had the yellow light of death with the first gen model overheating all the fucking time
>>740909787>>740910897>>740912621I'm imagining it as a way to demo games, or play them in entirety if you're broke, which by itself seems nice. Obviously, I'm aware that they will inevitably find ways to make it awful.>>740912604I don't even own a console.
>>740910786this was not the first time we've heard Xbox wanting to implement ads into gamepass. They said they wanted to make a free tier with ads a year ago.
>>740909729>I wouldn't mind sitting through some adsStopped reading there. Kys.
nice try, Snoy, I shan’t be buying a PS5 or Switch 2and even if they do introduce ads? as long as it keeps Gears off of Playstation I will fucking scream McDonalds at my Kinect till my lungs collapse
>>740913387>>the generation ended when sony says it did>I'm noticingIf Microslop had better sales to report, then they would've reported them.The fact they never stepped in to say "actually, our post-2014 sales have us outselling PS3" proves in itself that they never outsold PS3.
people play xbox?
>>740913992>better sales to report>literally only off by 3m, and thats after not continuing it well after a decade
>>740911895I deliberately don't buy things an ad shows me. If a company shows me an ad for their products, I will deliberately seek out and buy from their competitor instead.
Transbox, Pakistan and Iran lost.
>>740908953>Be Microsoft>Constantly do things to erode faith from their customer base>Get shocked people aren't buying their products>Rug pull the existing customers, proving the skeptics correct>Never learn their lesson and do this over and over againIf any of us get time travel, please kill the thieving faggot Bill Gates.
>>740914310>If any of us get time travel, please kill the thieving faggot Bill Gates.based
>"sir, we're behind both pc and playstation in sales, any suggestions?">"yeah let's tell the consumer base we're gonna start putting midroll ads in their games."lmfao. You know, 20 years ago, this would have gotten this guy literally crucified in his front yard on live TV. But after so many years of population-scale demoralization, and watching Nintendo scrape by year after year putting out obsolescent slop on underpowered proprietary garbage, there's actually probably a large enough captured audience of absolute braindead soulless zombies to keep them alove as the second, even-more-embarassing Nintendo.
I’ll stick to unaffordable games that flop because they’re dogshit thanks
>>740914121fastest selling console in NA just behind Steam Machine
>>740909729Except that's not how it's going to work. There will be ads in the $23 tier of Gamepass, and then they'll create a $35 ad free tier.
>>740914502thats the S2
McDONALDS!!!!!!!
>>740908953Ohh boy and here I was ready to run out and buy a new cuckbox, gosh darn it I guess I won't get one after all :(
>>740914505You have to be a special kind of dumb to still pay for gamepass after they jacked the price up by 50%. They might've pulled the price back down after protest cancellations, but the signal is clear, they think you're underpaying them, and they will get their fucking money from you.
>>740909729You need to actually kill yourself
>>740908953>having ads interupt your gameplay Nah, I wont do it. And if it does get implemented I hope it kills Xbox. These ideas come from coked up boomers and Gen x.
>>740908953> implemented with careful restraint Yeah, we all know how that goes with ad makers.
>>740908953What do they mean by "in-game"? On the main menu? The pause screen? During loading screens? Before online matches? Strewn throughout the game world on billboards? Literally disrupting you mid-game to show you an ad while you're trying to fight the final boss or watch an important cutscene? There's not enough information for me to get mad, man!
>>740909729you are the problem
Honestly the retard crowd that plays Fortnite and apehoop sim 5 absolutely will accept ad breaks in their games.
>>740909729i will find you and your entire family if you even attempt this
Ads are already on Xbox pc because mobile ports are allowed there
>>740908953This is Don Mattrick-tier bullshitThey really want the next Xbox to fail don't they?Lazy assholes with no vision
we need more ads in games
>>740908953>don't worry the savings will definitely pass down to the consumer!>we enact plans for the benefit of the consumer! Not for our shareholders that we are required by law to make line go up for!Yeah just like how games were sold cheaper on EGS without the storefront cut.
>>740909729>I would love in game ads>I'm also a retard who cannot tell if I'll like a game without trying it for freeYou're genuinely goycattle.
Microsoft wanted to turn the xbox one into the adbox 1 one back then but couldn't at the time because consumers had enough bargaining power to influence their decisions. Something happened around post-2019 where they don't have to give 2 shits about the consumer, because they're getting money from somewhere else presumably.Rather than ask why they want to do this since we know they wanted this as far back as xbox 360 with the ads on the dashboard, ask who the fuck is enabling this?
>>740915338Their actions make them incredibly untrustworthy, and then they get shocked nobody trusts them enough to buy their products.
SAAAAAARS HIRE MORE H1B WORKERSSSS
>>740911895>Man, turning on a tv occasionally almost feels like a weird experience now to me. How did we tolerate this garbage indoctrinated to us tantric-ally like a cult ritual for so long?That's bullshit revisionism that's how.Commercials on TV used to be creative and artistic back in the dayThere was effort put behind themThey weren't lazy slop But people want to pretend they were always shit
>>740914505I was recently looking at streaming service prices/bundles (I dont watch much tv/movies, and I pirate on the rare occasions I do) and what blew my fucking mind is how almost all of them all have paid plans that all have ads unless you pay for some exorbitant highest tier plan. I genuinely cannot believe normalfags just got meme'd right back into paying for cable.
Izzat maximized!
>>740915750>I genuinely cannot believe normalfags just got meme'd right back into paying for cable.Crazy isn't it? Subscription creep has deeply enshittified it, but we all sort it coming when they atomised.
>>740914310I'd go back way farther than that to Rome and tell Hadrian to finish the job in that case
>>740908953Why are we pretending like in-game ads are a new concept? This shit has been a staple for years, with in-game billboards, radio stations, posters, car decals, and all sorts of other things being advertisements for real world products
>>740909729THE goodest of good goys right here lads
>>740909729>I could play an hour or so of a game for free to decide whether or not it was worth buyingyou used to be able to do this without looking at ads. they were called demos>inb4 the whole thing was an adfree samples are the only good form of advertising
So mountain dew verification cans are going to be a real thing soon
>>740909348that's product placement, no the same, getting hit with a Pepsi ad is not the same as using pepsi cans to heal or seeing a random cardboard in-game
Xbox is using a classic PR tactic of just constant fucking talking from executives to flood everyone's feeds with Xbox news stories to make it unavoidable to hear about Xbox.
>>740909729I hope that you have no children so that in your death your terrible opinions will die with you.
>>740909729>This fag would Black Mirror himself if it meant he could play a shitty cover shooter for freeyou are hopeless
>>740909089Another new hire, who is former, "Corporate VP overseeing Azure AI infrastructure". So another fuckn "AI bro"
>>740908953This is ok because xbox needs the money and you shouldnt be able to play for free. It is THEIR game and THEIR console not yours. Be grateful you can even PLAY on xbox. They should brick complainers xboxs and make them buy new ones.
>>740914550>starts another ad (2 of 5)
>>740918015Xbox is needed. Nothing bad happens when watching ads. You do it all the time and is ok. No ads no money no money no xbox. You ok?????? no. So buy and wait it can be ok promise no hurry.
>>740909109xbox requires ram, just like a pc doesmicrosoft has to buy that ram
>>740913039Microsoft actually counted every 360 RROD replacement device they sent out as a "shipped unit"it didn't sell nearly as well as they wanted investors and the public to believe
>>740908953I've seen ads in games before.On ps3 arcana heart it had fucking car banners in the online mode for about a week after launch for some reason and then they disappeared forever.Street fighter 5 was fucking full of ads you could disable but if the opponent had them on they showed anyways. Shit was mad gay
>>740908953Key strategists at my house are implementing a plan to not purchase an Xbox
Despite how absurd it sounds there's a way to do it without being obnoxious and cringe.Like vending machines filled with real world brands instead of "sci-fi soda #6". What I question though is that doing so would benefit in any way the consumer and not the company. >oh let's cram adds and we can earn 10% more from this game>will that mean we're lowering the game by 10% as well, boss?>...you're fired
>>740909729GOD TIER bait
>>740910808Depends entirely on how they're impimented. Video games aren't TV - by its nature, TV(usually) isn't interactive. You're removed from it.Videogames are interactive though. Even a tiny interruption pulls you out of things and throws you out of your groove. Do that too obtrusively/obnoxiously, too often, etc, and nobody will put up with it. Especially on multiplayer slop.>congrats on the heated victory that round! I know you're all fired up and ready to keep your streak going, but we're going to have to stop you right there for a couple minutes so papa john's can talk to youThat right there is the end of your game.
>>740908953it's weird that publishers act as if games are like new hardware (where you need to update every few years) rather than like good books (in that you can just re-read what you liked a decade ago if new offerings aren't to your taste)
lmao at the retards praising this jeeta
>>740911141Advertisement would not be necessary if it was illegal for the peasantry to possess money. All peasants should be forced to surrender all of their money to the all-powerful corporations that rule over the world and control humanity's destiny.
>>740909729Xbots manage to make themselves look gayer than even Snoys, man.>>740912923No Microsoft. Sony is just a retarded company full of unserious people. Microsoft is actively malicious and has actively destoryed many a good technology or actual innovation in the name of market dominance. Like how they undercut their own PC market to bolster the Xbox market since that would give them more money. Or how they screwed over a lot of 7th gen Japanese devs and left them hanging after the 360 floundered over there and didn't even bother to finish many games that these companies had planned (with the money that they thought was going to come through Microsoft since they did promise it in good faith). They screwed over Cavia and Mistwalker. I'm not even touching on Bill Gates actively forming a monopoly in the 90s with the Windows OS environment. Microsoft is actively evil but retarded while Sony is just retarded.
>>740908953>subscription service where you pay for the privilege of owning nothing squeezes every last cent they can out of their cattle audiencewho coulda expected that??
>>740909729>but I wouldn't mind sitting through some ads if it meant I could play an hour or so of a game for free to decide whether or not it was worth buying.That's not acceptable as well because piracy exists. The only acceptable ads are first party games advertisement and nothing else.
>>740908953it makes sense in sports games. those are filled with fake ads, might as well make them real
>>740908953>The question is not 'Can we cram ads in everything'because they can. and will at least try.the only question is "how many ads can we cram into everything"
>>740914172basedbeyondbelief.jpg
At least the games themselves aren’t Ads
>>740908953Games are cheap as fuck already. Wtf this honkey means to "keep them affordable"? Isn't Gamepass some kind of mega deal? Is it still too expensive? What's the fucking point making products that deliver tens or hundreds of hours of entertainment for people that sweat about $30?????
>>740923791>Wtf this honkey means to "keep them affordable"?It means "ads are an extra source of income we can tap, and I enjoy getting a $20m bonus"
>>740923791It means you’re a stupid nigger faggot who should be shot
I tried to play these weird phone games with ad breaks every two minutes or every round. It was a very terrible experience. You buy the game if you don't want any ad breaks and in some of these games, buying them won't even stop all ads.
> in-game ads — implemented with careful restraintLmao. A company with restraint, that's a good one> Are there opportunities that allow the people who can’t afford, or wouldn’t try, to have an onboard to our properties and franchisesGod I hate the way these suits word shit.
>>740917070Nigga it's not that deepDo you pay for YouTube?
>>740908953Please! I want to see these developers lose customers and shutdown for trying because they wanted to sell you some unrelated Bullshit.
>>740908953>We'll put in ads>But you're still paying full price, biatch!What a wonderful world.
>>740908953DRINK VERIFICATION CAN
>>740910090You don't get it we need all those human resources roasties and all those nepojews doing fake jobs oh and the ultra expensive mocaps
The real question is what ad companies would pay them because in the digital age companies want verification that there ad has been seen. They will take control over where you are allowed to place a box of Kellogg, definitely not in the nazi home in Wolfenstein.>>740910786>no in-game ads>because would interrupt game flownext week they add product placement and he will argue that he never said not to, because those 'ads' don't interrupt game flow
>>740923279> They screwed over Cavia and Mistwalker.So why are you not saying the same about nintendo then? If you say that microsoft had to fund all mistwalker games, why did nintendo stop after one game? And Last Story sold better than Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey on top of that. Either way Cry On was developed for both xbox 360 and ps3 so you can't blame microsoft for that
>>740913171it passed it before the next gen came out, ranjit
>>740909348Why is this website full of stupid brown people?
>>740916060So far there is either non-intrusive product placement like alienware laptop in FEAR 1 or in-game ads that shill other games made by the same devs. Neither breaks the flow of the gameplay so far.
Sony already patented this for the PS6, I'm certain it's coming soon. Judging by the cattle ITT like >>740909729 I'm guessing social media and /v/ will bitch about it for a month and still buy the new consoles anyways. All they have to do is jingle the fromsoft or other beloved dev keys and you'll all be buying it day fuarking 1.
>>740909348Your a fucking retard.>>740909729Amd your an even bigger retard.
>>740908953>Faggots start shilling and simping for a disgusting jeet ceoEnjoy your ads faggots
>>740909109games are made on computers that require RAM.
>>740908953>Buy 80 dollar game>Get fucking adsPirates win again, baby.
>>740908953>that will be $100 plus ads after every 10 minutes of gameplaygod we're lucky we can play free gacha games.
>>740930281Well Xbox started the whole pay to play online bullshit then sony and nintendo followed them. So if they can get away with forcing ads into games and no one cares then you know for sure sony and nintendo will follow them again.
>>740925410No. I don't have ads either on it.
>>740927524>product placementthis used to be extremely common and to a certain extent is a bit soulful as it shows the desperation for money old game devs hadif the new crazy taxi does NOT have product placement that is a BAD thing
>>740908953You can tell /v/ never plays video games because we have been getting loading screen ads in madden and 2k for literally 5 or 6 years now.
>>740930449Neither do I but you understand why they do
>>740930571Not the same thing monkey boy
>>740908953>The costs have gone up way too high on developmentcosts have gone up but the games look and play worse? that's quite an achievement. How did devs forget how to make games all of a sudden?
>>740908953This is so moronic. Everybody still owning, buying, and playing on these dead bricks designed to milk low-IQ and low-income households should be subjected to their deepest and most idiotic ideas to milk these groups even harder. The time of the big-budget gaming industry is long gone. We are in the middle of a dying industry, and now is the time of monsters. I will be pleased to witness the death of Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo, who are responsible for this decline in the first place, and yoked to it are you, the fucking retarded customers who didn't think about anything in your whole lives and just kept consuming their mindless slop. Now pay up!
>>740909109we downloaded all of it on the limited amount of internet that extra credits warned us about, so now we're suffering from bitrot increases
>>740909729FOAD
>>740911019There's the option of preroll ads in a launcher:>Watch this ad and say "McDonalds" to launch your game.Also- afaik Sony actually holds a patent on full interstitial ad-breaks while playing a game. No way in hell MS would pay them to incorporate that type of ad in XBox games.
>>740908953games have been doing this for 30 yearsgo play a racing game from like 2003 and there's billboards for stuff like Pizza Hut and Nokia everywhere.
>>740908953This is like how streamers are threatening to put dynamic AI ads in their shows.>Tony Soprano takes out his brand new IPhone 17 to call Paulie Walnuts
I Am Legend was the worst movie Battlefield ever showed me
>>740930571/v/ doesn’t play ball and gun games. If the next Persona had the characters meet up at Pizza Hut /v/ would notice.
>>740914310It's actually impressive how badly they fucked up Halo Infinite. It was such a unilateral bad faith operation it could almost be described as a loosh farm. That's what Jeetsoft is running on now. Your misery
>>740909729>He thinks the games will be freeLol that's why we PAY for Cable TV right? To avoid ads?
>>740934894They boiled the frog a long time ago. Hitchcock had incredible disdain for advertisers and constantly ripped on them every chance he had hosting his show back in the fucking 50s
>>740930571>/v/ never plays video games>madden and 2kcorrection, we don't play shit games
>>740930571Who's we, darkie? Jesus, this fucking board.
>>740909729It started when these mouth breathers boughted horse armor. Then they started getting hyped for pre-rendered E3 trailers. Then slurped up day one DLC. And the battle passes, and defending billion dollar companies price gouging. GET THESE STUPID FUCKING RETARDS OFF THE PLANET. MINDLESS FUCKING CONSUMERS ARE THE REASON THESE COMPANIES CAN FUCK US AS MUCH AS THEY PLEASE. BECAUSE THERE ARE ENOUGH PEOPLE THAT WILL STILL BUY SHIT. FUCKING NORMIES
>>740909729>I wouldn't mind [anti-consumer practice] if I get a small crumb for free.This how you all faggots killed the fucking industry 20 years ago and keep doing it. Fuck you.
>>740923279>They screwed over... Mistwalker.No doubt, Microsoft has always treated smaller Japanese developers like shit, but Mistwalker's failure was its own doing. Sakaguchi was always a product of the real talent at Square who carried his ass while he hogged all the credit. On his own, he was thoroughly exposed as a hack. If anything, he finessed M$, not the other way around.
>>740936856It’s funny how the public bought into all this Jewry but NFTs were the last straw. We were already paying real money for digital cosmetics, why not get crypto involved?
Can't they so what Crazy Taxi did and just have ads be part of the game? I know it can't fit with every single game out there but that was fun.
>>740908953>>"There is a two-sided problem. The costs have gone up way too high on developmentIts not my problem that major studios are paying top dollar for celebrity shit stains to phone in a shit tier voice performance AND do their own motion capture even when they really really really don't need to.
>>740930627>>740936562baited for this EXACT response
>>740908953Oh boy, I love to see xbox and microsoft shooting their feet.
>>740916060Product placement has been in video games pretty much since the early days, for better or for worse, but literally stopping the game at regular intervals for a commercial break like it's a TV show is unprecedented and a disgusting level of greed. As always, M$ is unlesshing a new cancer on the industry, but history will be rewritten to blame Sony for it somehow when the rest of the industry is forced to do it too by their shareholders.
>>740909729I refuse to believe an actual human being would make such posts
>>740909109Nothing, but stop asking questions. Thank you :) . Now we'll go and get those exclusives and keep making Xbox consoles so you can keep your 30+ year console war thing going just like you wanted us to. We could have become a platform where all of our laptops, PCs and shit were Xboxes, we'd sell you our controller and everything that had the Xbox app on it (smartphone, TV, headset, etc) would have games too, but we want the Colteastwood and console warrior crowd and want to keep them happy despite what the data actually shows is the right move.
>>740909729>Yea it sounds pretty gay, but I wouldn't mind sitting through some ads if it meant I could play an hour or so of a game for free to decide whether or not it was worth buying.I want you to go step out into trafficEverything wrong in the gaming industry is because of retards like you
>>740908953Pay up goy
>>740908953>in game adshave they missed all these licensed racing games?
>>740939212Racing games have the excuse of the licenses and modeling of the cars being extremely costly. You know this advertising tech is going into games that are already profitable to generate 12% higher investor returns.
