Enjoy your in game ads

Take a shower

They are shoving unskippable ads during your loading screens etc.
comicbook.com/gaming/2019/06/22/nba-2k19-ads-games/

It's a non-skippable advertisement before you actually get in game, it's not like they put a few Budweiser logos courtside (which is what you'd see at an actual basketball game)

this isn't exclusive to EA games either
look at the trans flag in hat in time

JUST
STOP
BUYING
SHIT
GAMES

Seriously, if a game has shit business practices, just don't buy it

sports games are on the same level as mobile games

True dat
youtube.com/watch?v=9HY4wRSyA2Q

Attached: 1552612008070.jpg (400x376, 46K)

He's (or might be) a Jew

>AAA game companies make so much money that they're able to spend hundreds of millions on marketing alone
>HURRRR GAMES R 2 EXPENSIVE NOW BCUZ GRAFIX
imagine being this dumb

>Games nowadays cost too much
not really. game developers are a dime a dozen and every time some aaa company shows off something crazy, some dude in their basement surrounded by loli body pillows pulls off something just as amazing by himself in between visual novel speed runs.

an entire team with millions puts out a flub like fallout 3 and 4, with train hats for locomotives, and a couple of unemployed dudeweeds mod multiple times the content and fixes literally everything for no monetary gain? food analogy goes here

Attached: 1560369301223.jpg (880x1261, 148K)

Watched an interview once with an advertising expert who exposed all the true stats when it came to advertising

Basically adverts have no effect what so ever on 89% of people who see them and the 11% who see them and are reminded/influenced to buy the product mostly wont as they'll forget about it after going off to do something else or if they do buy that product are not guaranteed to buy that brand but the brand of a rival company instead

Basically the advertising business which spends trillions every year is a fucking scam and complete waste of money

youtube.com/watch?v=SlKao_Pox5A

Attached: 213341321412.jpg (1200x900, 106K)

But do those body pillows actually have decent girls on them

So what? It's their video game, not yours. They can put whatever they like in it.

no you dumb nigger it's because they spend most of their budget on marketing

only the finest "girls"

Interesting that this comes from 2K games, but then again, not so much considering they're a subsidiary of TakeTwo Interactive.

I would've seen this coming from EA before anyone else.

in game textures advertising companies like racing games do are one thing. but an actual unskippable ad? top fucking lol

EA already puts ads in their games. We had a Coca Cola tie in with Battlefield. This is nothing new at all.

>he hasn't taken the /vr/ pill
oh how I pity you zoomers

Attached: 1525388794348.png (380x349, 77K)

/vr/ here, what are you playing? For me, it's BoF IV.

This, but I imagine they wouldn't pay much for an ad if it wasn't all over the fucking place, so it's probably intentional.

Marketing has much better ROI than spending on the game after a certain point. Gamers are dumb and eat up the marketing. AAA publishers are just putting the money where it makes sense.

Post yfw you will never be a Brodude Chad who unironically buys sports games

Can't wait till they start putting ads on that sex stuff you love so much too. Stay scammed normalfags.

Attached: 1556929242262.jpg (1200x900, 155K)

I know everyone here hates Jim Shilling but fuck you!
youtube.com/watch?v=ecpkOvx4FVY

Most ads won't give a fuck about respecting the artstyle of the gameworld. You'll have your Mario Kart stages with photorealistic landscapes announcing the new Ford or whatever the fuck.

Huh. Then I guess it's no surprised. Implementing ads that completely stop you from being able to play for however long the ad lasts though is very detrimental to the gameplay experience though. Even as a game company looking to maximize revenue through any means, the last thing I'd want to do is hamper or even halt the gameplay for the player. But then again, these are suits we're talking about - people who know nothing of gameplay, who actively disregard what players want in a constant chase to maximize profits over a short-term investment. They couldn't care if the player winds up being able to play at all. Just as long as the player pays for the game.

This is becoming a pretty dominant trend in media it seems. I can't even enjoy YouTube anymore because every video is segmented by 2-3 ads minimum, not counting the ad you have to sit through before the video even starts. It's obnoxious as fuck. Music streaming services like Pandora constantly barrage you with 1-3 ads every 4-5 songs, then throw constant ads in your face advertising their premium services that lack ads. YouTube too.

Get Ublock Origin

Obama ads were in Burnout paradise 10 years ago. why are people bitching about ads now when no one cared then?

Because morons are trying to reelect Trump with another goomergate

>people didnt care then
citation needed

>replaying burnout 3
>see billboard ads for NFSU2 and battlefield modern combat
this is fine

Because there's a difference between a billboard in the background and a literal unskippable 30 second ad like I'm playing a fucking mobile game, nigger.

>playing a mobile game

you deserve it faggot

It's because advertising is looked at as a stronger marketing tool these days than actually providing a quality product. Advertisers pay so much money to have you show their ads that ad revenue can sometimes outweigh actual product revenue, meaning that the product can suck and still profit solely because people are paying them to display their ads.

It's fucking weird and does absolutely nothing for the consumer. Capitalism running rampant and unchecked. It sounds bizarre as fuck, but I can someday see companies just floating themselves off of each other without even obtaining revenue from actual consumers. Just a giant circle-jerk of corporate money going into an odd circle.

Congrats on having the reading comprehension of a 10 year old nigger.

I couldn't give two shits about seeing a McDonalds billboard in a videogame. But if I have to sit through an unskippable ad for fucking Adidas or Supreme, fuck that. Give me my money back so I can buy a game I can actually play, that isn't holding my gameplay hostage behind corporate sponsorships.

>capitalism has flaws so that means communism is good

That already happens. There are companies raking in millions of dollars that aren't even profitable. They're supported by investors. In some cases, it can take up to ten years before they're profitable. In other cases, they never becoming profitable, and either file for bankruptcy, or get bought by a bigger company and absorbed and restructured.

There's been ads in games since last gen, Saints Row 2 billboards would advertise real shit when the servers were running

>communism lacks flaws
>but we should just accept capitalism's flaws because capitalism is easier

See

I don't think it's anything with capitalism itself, as much as it's a problem with the US Government allowing corporations too much leniency to pull largely anti-consumer practices. No company displays more entitlement to your money more than multi-billion dollar companies do.

only niggers play basketball games so who gives a fuck
They should just advertise gold chains and gold teeth covers, they'd have better luck

>>communism lacks flaws
who are you quoting

lmao it really was a documentary XDDD

Attached: file.png (591x313, 537K)

Didn´t the first Grid had that also?

Hmmm I'd like some MnMs

NBA 2K30