Money changed hands, so they have to show them. It’s advertising for the other companies that they worked with, or building up brand recognition for the publisher, etc. In the best case scenario, they mask a load screen, but I’ve found plenty where they don’t even start loading until after the unskippable logos.
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popcar2@piefed.ca 1 day ago
So many games have like ~10-15 seconds of unskippable logos whenever you open the game and it pisses me off every single time. I don’t understand why they still do this.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Katana314@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I’d really like to see a set of publishers/creators that take a hard line stance on this, and reject contracts with, eg, Speedtree, if they insist on a dedicated startup video.
Kudos to Arc Raiders. When I boot it up, aside from an EAC launcher logo, it goes straight to Speranza.
ViscloReader@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Iirc Masahiro Sakurai (the guy from smash bros) openly stated to he refused to work with dolby in Kirby in the forgotten land because they insisted their logo be plastered before the title screen.
Brokkr@lemmy.world 1 day ago
On PC, often those are short videos. If you can find those files, you can remove the file and they won’t play. Pcgamerwiki is helpful
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
They’re almost always .bik files somewhere in the game directory. I have no clue why so many games still insist on using this specific format in particular even today, but at least it makes them easy to find. I have determined that quite a few games will barf if you delete the files outright, but if you just replace them with an empty text file with the same name it will still allow the game to launch.
Console players are usually out of luck.
stephen@lemmy.today 23 hours ago
I hadn’t heard of PCGamerWiki before, and it looks super useful. Thanks!