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TV Style Ads in Console Games? No thanks.
An article over on Kotaku talks about a push to bring TV styled commercials in console games.
The tech would basically be licensed out to game devs to use. Instead of being something to show players in the middle of a game, it'll be something that players would choose to view to get a "reward".
So expect essentially more microtransactions which will get shittier and shittier. Eventually they'll get down to a point where you'll get a tiny bit of in-game currency to buy (eventually after 1000 ads) some cosmetic item. I give them 5 years to get to that point.
Either way they'll add more and more of them and do more and more to force players to watch them.
I can just see an RPG where all the treasure chests are locked - and keys are only given when you watch X ads. I could further see them turning the keys given randomized. Will you get a bronze, silver, gold, or platinum key? They'll match the chests so hopefully you watch enough ads!
It's likely going to be at least 2-3 years before I bother looking at buying a PS5, so we'll see how bad it gets by then. It'll probably make my decision easy.
The tech would basically be licensed out to game devs to use. Instead of being something to show players in the middle of a game, it'll be something that players would choose to view to get a "reward".
So expect essentially more microtransactions which will get shittier and shittier. Eventually they'll get down to a point where you'll get a tiny bit of in-game currency to buy (eventually after 1000 ads) some cosmetic item. I give them 5 years to get to that point.
Either way they'll add more and more of them and do more and more to force players to watch them.
I can just see an RPG where all the treasure chests are locked - and keys are only given when you watch X ads. I could further see them turning the keys given randomized. Will you get a bronze, silver, gold, or platinum key? They'll match the chests so hopefully you watch enough ads!
It's likely going to be at least 2-3 years before I bother looking at buying a PS5, so we'll see how bad it gets by then. It'll probably make my decision easy.