Gamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games

Can we boycot the companies that do this already. I get the AC IP is nice, I've certainly enjoyed my fair share of their games.

But the ad industry is completely getting derailed. What's next ? Watch a 15s promo video every time you want to open te fridge? Watch a promo video before you can open the door?

Have your walls randomly show you ads?

Stop buying their shit. Regardless of how decent the game is. Punish them for the predatory practices. Demand refunds.

But no. People will likely be outraged, and then next game angry and then the next game they'll suck it all up and complain about the good all days.

#remindmein5years

I have a hard unbreakable rule:

Free, you can serve me ads, I'll try to avoid them but ok. But the minute I pay for something and you try to give me ads on top, we're gonna have a problem.

"Most agreed that promos about new games and other content are slightly more tolerable on the main menu before the game starts,"

If I see as much as a small banner ad in a game, I'm immediately refunding, and never purchasing a game from that publisher ever again.

Ah, my hard line stance of "never buy anything ubisoft" is still working out for me.

Always testing the line... This wasn't a mistake. They know you'll be upset, they are testing HOW upset and then they'll make their decision.

Something you're paying for should be completely ad free, period.

Enshittification infects all.

I don’t mind in-game ads printed on in-map billboards and stuff, but ads that interrupt gameplay? Fuck that. Especially if you’ve paid for the content.

And they will get away with it because nobody does what will really hurt Ubisoft, which is NOT buy the games. No. They will simply come on reddit or here and complain, and then throw their hands up and accept it when that fails to produce any results.

That's why those who "jUsT pAy PReMiUm" are at fault. These companies are just pushing the line to see what sticks, and you're perpetuating it by paying

Gamers continue to tell these companies that they'll put up with anything while complaining online and continuing to purchase shitty games from shitty companies. Rinse and repeat.

This is 90% on consumers. Stop buying shit if you want change and I mean in any industry.

The first time I saw Ubisoft doing this was actually kinda neat because it was done well.

It was Rainbow Six Vegas/Vegas 2 and the billboards and posters scattered around were real ads. I thought it was a clever way to improve immersion.

I stopped buying Ubisoft games years ago. It was around that that time where they forced always-online mode on their single player games.

I stopped playing their games (literally) because I was sure from that point on the user experience is only going to get worse. I thing I was right in that decision.

That's enough for me to never buy any of their games ever again.

Remember when they said that if we pay for the product, we dont get ads? :)

i can't wait for the day when we will need to watch ads or buy premium before we can use our cars

Gaming has been following the shitty trends of video streaming companies for a while now. I bought RDR2 on the Steam sale to finally play through and immediately refunded it when I saw they force you to sign in with a Rockstar account. I don't want any offline games where I have to sign in.

I remember putting a cartridge into a console and powering on to an immediate start screen. There shouldn't be EULA or T&C prompts or inescapable splash screens on timers for any of these games. There shouldn't be standalone studio launcher applications that take up nearly a GiB of hard drive. Nobody wants them, nobody is impressed by them, and it takes away from the fun. It seems I'm done with all Blizzard, Origin, and Rockstar games for good now, where in the past I would've gladly shelled out $$$ for deluxe and ultimate editions like a chump.

How much fucking money do they need?

Forza Horizon 4 did this but worse. It would be an unskippable 2 minute video ad ignoring your volume settings. It only played 5 times in my 45 hours of gameplay but it was so damn unacceptable that it's reminding me to give that game a negative review.

Forza Horizon 5 does not do this. Get that game or something else instead.

Fuck Ubisoft

[Everyone] enraged at [any company] for injecting ads into the middle of [everything]

Still playing Ubishit games

Lol

They should be enraged about the rape apologists who are in charge of the company. But consumers forget fast when the shiny new thing is out.

There are people who are not already angry at Ubisoft?

When piracy becomes more convenient to actually play the game sail those ships boys

And this is why retro games and open source games make up the bulk of my gaming experience

What if we took cable tv... And combined it with gaming?

Fuck off with this shit. Micro transactions are bad enough

disgusting. it doesn't surprise me. publishers are continously testing how much their customers can bend over.

Gamers continue to buy the games by publishers that do this and will continue to put up with it as they slowly boil like frogs.

It's difficult to fight the slow conditioning that started with horse armor and Farmville. There's no escaping it until we replace capitalism with something better.

They are doing fucking what?!

The only ads I want in my video games are in-world lore appropriate ones. Like the biomechanical penis implant ad from Omikron: The Nomad Soul.

Enshitification going so hard I wouldn’t even pirate it.

But who am i kidding, the pirated version will likely have this crap removed, better performance without denuvo and all exclusives unlocked. Yarrrr

Imagine buying Ubisoft games.

I already don't buy Ubisoft games. Which of you spineless lukes is bankrolling this crap?

What did you expect from a company whose logo is a turd seen from above!

I'm so behind companies doing this because so many people accept ads in every other part of their life and then act surprised when they get more ads showing up.

You can't pick and choose. You have to reject all ads. They're a cancer we let it metastasize

Take it back...call it defective. Fuck that shit, I don't care how good the game is, they're not getting my money ever again.

Yet another reason to continue my boycott of Ubisoft.

but there's no good reason for studios to insert ads in the middle of a game

"Au contraire!"

— Ubisoft, highly likely.

In other news: Ubisoft's revenue are up 14% year on year in September

I might be wrong, but don't they plan or already do put anticheat into single player games so people don't cheat-in the various ingame currencies they have to buy XP boosts (where without them leveing is a crawl)?

There thou art... The Big Three. Thy faces, AAA Publishers. Thy actions barely worthy of the name. Didst truly believe thy ploy would succeed? Dist believe Jolly Roger's would not notice? Publishers thou may be, yet thou hast proven thyselves fools, every one. The supplication of Ubisoft. The whimper of Activision. The death mewl of Electronic Arts...

The marketer's nightmare is that whenever you exploit a new vector to target consumers with ads, whenever you invent a new commercial style to which adults are responsive, you are simultaneously instilling resistance into their kids so they will grow up largely immune.

And if it's particularly invasive or annoying (such as interrupting fun to ad at them) they'll hate your company for the ads more than they like the product.

Rainbow Six Vegas 2 had ads in it for a movie. I thought it was neat. But it wasn't intrusive. The ads were on legit movie theater posters in the game for a movie.

There are plenty of games in the wild these days, not to mention on my back log, that if this became common practice it’d probably be a good thing. Personally I’d focus on what I already own or retro. So, bring it on 🤣

Enraged gamer #40,679, can confirm.

I remember there was actually a pizza Hut commercial in a Playstation 1 demo disc. It was one of the Pizza Hut sampler discs.

Things are different now.

I mean this is the same Ubisoft franchise that snuck in Denuvo as a day one patch. It'd be funnier if it weren't so upsetting that nothing will change and the game industry will keep chugging on.

From Ubisoft no less. I'm shocked I tell you. Shocked! /s

Putting ads in a 5 year old game is definitely an odd thing to do.

Active player count got to be in the dozens by now, surely?

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Bunch of chumps would complain then immediately go buy the golden collector's edition pre-order anticipated-access + battlepass bundle. If you're that person, you deserve to be taken advantage of. The only reason they keep pushing the envelope of the shit they think they can get away with is because you keep paying for it.

Who is still playing Ubisoft games?

I don't usually care about in-game DLC ads or things like that, as long as they're relegated to a Store section, but god damn.

This is too far.

Nice, I remember Admix just starting out and product placement in Guitar Hero

Not sure why they are using pop ups though, seems lazy

No. I meant Rayman, even Origins and Legends.

Gamers are the most oppressed cultural group.

Ubisoft has been anti-consumer for a long, long time.

I'm enraged they made a Facebook sequel rather than a legit game to my wife's favorite computer game ever, and it seems there no hope of the series ever coming back.

Oooh angry gamers, so scary. Let me see a title saying "Ubisoft losing profit, it just won't stop jesus christ!" Then I can get a NE out of this.

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If you buy a Ubisoft game in this day and age there is no way you don't know what you are getting into and the kind of shitty company you are supporting, and you still support it, and its practices, by buying their shit.

So you have absolutely zero right to bitch, moan, and be upset about the very Ubisoft style shit that Ubisoft does.

I thought that this was an ad on Lemmy. Glad it's not, but I wouldn't be surprised if they do have ads just like Reddit