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

Baldur’s Gate 3 has no dlc at all. It has no dlc even announced, let alone available for purchase. Stop making shit up lol. Their launcher has info about the different games they’ve made and their prices, but when you actually launch the game it has NO ad of any sort. You could only barely call the info in their launcher an ad in the first place.
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