Is it a bug or a new approach to ads in their games?

Ubisoft Allegedly Interrupts Gameplay with Pop-Up Ads::Is it a bug or a new approach to ads in their games?

  • Kissaki@feddit.deEnglish
    50·
    11 个月前

    Ubisoft has responded to the situation, claiming that the pop-up ad for Assassin’s Creed Mirage was caused by a technical glitch.

    • thehatfox@lemmy.worldEnglish
      99·
      11 个月前

      “It was a bug” is the common excuse when an intentional feature backfires.

      Loading screen ads seem like an obvious next step of enshittification. They are creeping back into video with ads breaks on streaming, only a matter of time before they are in games too.

      • ilickfrogs@lemmy.worldEnglish
        19·
        11 个月前

        Loading screens got shorter as tech improved. Now tech is too fast for proper ads so I bet there’s going to be intentional delay time added in the future for more ad impressions.

      • fadingembersEnglish
        8·
        11 个月前

        In b4 they artificially lengthen load times for more ads

    • Syndic@feddit.deEnglish
      49·
      11 个月前

      The pop up may have been triggered by a technical glitch before they wanted it to. But the whole feature of course was not only developed but implemented into the live version of the game.

    • gaael@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      11 个月前

      “Technical glitch” meaning “our operative’s brains grey matter has been replaced by shit when they went to business school”.

    • Bjornir@programming.devEnglish
      6·
      11 个月前

      That excuse only works for people who have no ideas how programming works. New features can’t appear because of a glitch.

      The only thing that can indeed happen is the feature was developed and tested, and it was enabled by a glitch. But the feature necessarily was developed intentionally, because things don’t just appear like that in a program.

      • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
        8·
        11 个月前

        “One of our engineers tripped and fell on the keyboard and accidentally coded an entire ad delivery system then accidentally shipped it.”

        The only way I could imagine this being an accident was if they’d already built the ad system and then decided not to use it because they had a burst of common sense at the last possible minute, then later on they accidentally shipped the wrong version in an update.

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    36·
    11 个月前

    If removing performance-worsening DRM wasn’t gonna encourage piracy, fucking ads in a game sure would!

    Not that the games are even necessarily worth the disk space and download time anymore…

  • Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    35·
    11 个月前

    I would have refunded the game the first time that shit happened. That said, I quit playing Ubisoft games years ago so that’s not a concern of mine.

  • Whirling_Cloudburst@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    11 个月前

    Hold on. Let me check… Oh wait, I didn’t buy any Ubisoft games, I wonder why? I wanted to play AC, but there must be a reason.

  • Krzd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    11 个月前

    Fuck “allegedly” there are multiple videos of there of it happening.

    • HowManyNimons@lemmy.worldEnglish
      34·
      11 个月前

      Ads don’t appear in computer programs by magic or by accident. Even if its was a “glitch” you can be sure there’s a reason why the user experience code has the ability to display ads.

      If you like Ubisoft games, it’s time to find some new favourites elsewhere.

  • badaboomxx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    11 个月前

    I stopped buying ubi games since 2-3 years ago, even when I was getting the games with discounts.