Capcom has decided to embarrass Street Fighter V with ads, or “sponsored content” as they’re calling it.
Today, let’s talk about that, give a brief history of product placement and ads in games, before having a bit of a whinge about the potential future of ad-support videogame garbage.
Welp video game crash of 2020 calling it now
Life’s good when you got a nice can of refreshing Scorpion Energy
ironic that advertising will be the aaa publishers downfall
Oh, hello Capitalism, I didn’t see you come in. What? You where there all along, you say?
Jim talk about the UK game dev union
Glad to see triple A gaming has no bottom…… no ending to the greed and sick lack of any type of morality….
Jim should be the new killer in dead by daylight. The survivor should be andrew wilson from ea. His mori kill should be him shoving his cane up the survivor ass. His killer power should be exposing how much wasted on predatory microtransactions.
Pepsi Man is great!
you might need a new assistant…… not knowing he man……. disgraceful !
Tumblr’s porn ban may now be officially in effect, but we still have you, Jim!
Looks like we are going to need some one to invent adblock for video games soon.
The silence from the fighting game community on this is deafening to me. They should all be ashamed of themselves for just rolling over and taking this.
Ads in video games is a surefire way to make sure i never buy anything from either ever again.
For you people out there looking for an ad free alternative to Street Fighter V, look into Punch Planet. Its an indie developed fighting game with actually defensive options, combo diversity and only 3 frames of input lag. Plays like a dream
The diference between something like Pepsiman or Cool Spot is that they were created and sold as products from the company. Adding garbage to games that has nothing to do with anything is revolting, and should be actively boycotted.
Remember the movie Idiocracy? Everybody wore clothes covered with logos, there was a scene where a guy watched a gigantic TV but 80% of the screen was taken up by ads, one of the characters was named Frito because his parents were paid to name him that, and so on. Our society is on it’s way there.
I’m at the point in which I refuse to buy games if they have season passes, day one dlcs and microtransactions, no matter if they’re good or not.
In fact, I now buy about 2 games per year. But hey, the AAA industry is fiiiiiiiiine.
You babies, stop complaining, you don’t have to give into ads, just ignore them *_my god, I really want some Scorpion Energy for some reason_*
You are not the consumer, you are the product.
You are not meant to consume the game, the game is meant to consume YOU.
Capitalism what going do about it’s more easy to end humanity than getting ride of this rotting corpse of a ideology.