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

https://lemmy.nz/post/3725329

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

“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.

Baldur's Gate 3 was probably the best game of this year (?), but it has an advert for the DLC as soon as you launch it

However, it's also probably one of the least-bad "triple A" games of this year when it comes to overall monetisation, that singular DLC of cosmetics and the soundtrack being the only one available

Unfortunately, I think this one is a losing battle

Sony didn't have both versions readily available in the Playstation Store. While I did eventually purchase the DLC (which is the deluxe version, not a typical DLC) of the game, I'll be damned that Sony didn't make it easy to find the OG version in the store.

And I put that on Sony, not the game publisher. Regardless, BG3 has been a breath of fresh air to gaming this year. About time a studio put out a full game without divvying it up into expansions and DLCs.

I agree that BG3 is a great diversion from the usual. My point is kind of that if you're a purist about this, you're missing out on it, even though on the whole it bucks the trend.