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

chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Moneo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Funny, cause nothing breaks immersion faster for me than product placement.

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  • FireTower@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The way they did it was actually, dare I say, tasteful. Basically the only time you’d see ads is when realistically it’d be likely for a poster or bill board to be present.

    I remember one map was set at an exports event and they had esports sponsors everywhere.

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    • CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Placement isn’t the issue though.

      If you recognize it as a legit/real advertisement, that breaks the immersion.

      Your mind thinks “Why am I paying money to watch commercials?”, and that breaks the immersion of whatever virtual world you’re in at the time.

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      • SangersSequence@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m not entirely sure I agree. If the game is set in our world, an advertisement for a fake brand of a real product is, to me at least, more immersion breaking than it being a real brand for that product. Now if the game isn’t set in our world it’s a completely different story.

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  • Tikiporch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    When you swing downtown to time square in spiderman, does your brain really care if it’s a real product on all those signs?

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    • JayObey711@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, advertisements in game environments have always been the place to make stupid puns.

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      • Zacryon@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I loved the Pißwasser ads in GTA IV.

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• CosmicCleric@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Clever or not, you’re not paying to watch advertisements, you’re paying to play a game as a recreational activity.

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• MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I did think it was clever, but I distinctly remember for R6V1, every single billboard, truck side, and bus stop poster, was Shia LaBeouf staring at you with binoculars for the movie “Disturbia” lol.

  I guess in the R6 universe that was going to be the biggest film release of the century hahaha. Maybe they just didn’t get a ton of takers?

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• frostwhitewolf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think they did this in certain regions for battlefield 2142 also

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• Ilflish@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I want to note since people are not happy with this example and still talking about the good old days, this method is pretty old-school In X-Men Mutant Academy is a pretty hard example but that’s why I remember it and I want to provide some sort of proof

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