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Gamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games (www.techspot.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Whiskeyomega@kbin.social to c/PCGaming@kbin.social

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According to posts on online forums, ads have made their way into real-time gameplay in Assassin's Creed Odyssey. One gamer who reported the problem was Redditor triddel24,...

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[–] snooggums@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It could be the norm in AAA games, but most likely won't be. Even if it is, there will be a ton of non-AAA titles that don't have ads.

Battlefield 2142 having in game ads sure didn't kick off a widespread trend in FPS games, and this seems more like Ubisoft being Ubisoft.

[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

I'm old. I used Google in the late 90s when they didn't share or sell your data, and YouTube in 2006 when it was just regular people making videos on their phones. I have no optimism.