Noita, Hades, Factorio. Three insanely good games without ads or ingame purchases with very high replayability. Just don't give EA more money, please.
Electronic Arts started out so differently. The best, highest quality games, sold in album cases like vinyl records. They wanted to make their devs into rock stars. M.U.L.E., Seven Cities of Gold, Archon. Every game was innovative in every way.
Much later they'd changed, shifted toward the dark side, slipping way. But they still managed to bring us two of my favorite MMOs of all time: Motor City Online and Earth and Beyond.
MCO was online multiplayer Need For Speed with real classic American cars with real hot rod parts, the real engines, everything. I've not seen anything like it since. Hardly no one wants to pay to license real world cars any more. And you certainly don't get the real engines with the real hot rod parts.
EAB was a crappy FPS but somehow 2D space game, but it had the best crafting and leveling system. You take things apart eventually learning how to build things. Player built stuff could possibly go was high as 200% quality so other players would want to buy your wares. The leveling system had three distinct lines: exploration, combat, and trade. Play the game how you wanted to having fun your way not how they think you should.
Anyway, EA killed them both, turned off the servers, refused to release the server code so player servers or single player modes were impossible. They sent me a coupon for their new Sims game, though.
So fuck EA. Haven't bought a single one of their games since.
Satisfactory for me personally, I enjoy factorio but I like the first person vibe more
For me it's the opposite haha
Just waiting for it to leave early access
It's their next update, it's been a long road to 1.0 but the game is finally feeling complete. They've announced the next update will be 1.0, and it's expected this year.
I played it when it came out and while it was a fun playthrough and I’m glad I played, it’s nowhere near factorio on replayability. It also feels a lot more shallow, like they put more time into the visuals rather than actual game mechanics. And in the end what killed it for me was the performance. On factorio you can still have decent fps/ups in a 1k hour megabase, satisfactory in the other hand gives up pretty quickly. Mod support is great compared to most games, but doesn’t really come close to factorio.
Buying games online was supposed to be cheaper, too. Cuz no money spent on packaging and retail space...
It is cheaper. All the money saved just goes to the publishers.
So they can pay their devs more, right? 😀
So they can pay their devs more, right? 😟
Hell, the game could go from 70$ to Free with Ads, I'd still not be interested. I despise ads and I absolutely refuse to see them.
I feel you, friend
Fuck this.
There will be literally ads everywhere soon.
Ads in the street, on TV, on the radio, in magazines, on the internet, in games (including in VR)...
It's a nightmare it will be completely impossible to go through one minute of your life without being sold something.
It's not really something new but it saddens me because gaming was one of the few space that was mostly spared by advertisers. One of the last place you could get out of your reality for a little while.
Now this is over. Just like Netflix people will go up in arms against ads and then still get Free2Play games showing ads and normalize that practice.
I have removed alot of advertising on tv by self hosting my dvd/br content. Best decision i had in a while, its like netflix but content is there forever and always accessible from anywhere in the world (if my upload can keep up). Fair amount of work but no subscription chargers
I don't know, I have removed close to 80% of ads in my life. None on my pc, none on my phone, none when I listen to music, none when I play games. Adblocking, Linux and a dash of the old yarr matey worked like a charm
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I share your sadness, but also avoid games that do this. There are many many games out there that aren't doing this and never would. Reward those developers with your time and money.
Any paid softwares/games should never have ads even if it only 0.1$
I don't mind having the choice at least, years ago Amazon did this with their Kindles (or maybe they still do, dunno). You were given a choice on their Kindle order page, save 40$ on an ad supported version or full price and ad-free. It even stacked (At least once anyways) with other sales they might have been running.
I chose the ad supported model... and then proceeded to root it and remove the ads LMAO
Honestly, I can't even remember the last time I bought an EA game. What do they even make these days besides sports games?
Yes, but also the star wars and sims franchise
Only ea games I can think of that I've bought are jedi: fallen order and jedi: survivor. And I only bought them because they're actually good games that aren't monetized like a casino.
Can't wait for nobody to understand ads in old video games when they're being played years later.
It also always reminds me of this: https://piped.video/watch?v=XPGgTy5YJ-g
Bold of you to assume the games will even be available to play years later.
Because DRM mechanisms.
Or because the servers went offline or the company didn't bother to keep the source code. A few years ago, there was a really bad remaster of one of the GTA games where it turned out they used the mobile version of the game as the source code because Rockstar hadn't bothered to keep a copy of the game. There was another time where it turned out that the copy used for a remaster of a game was a cracked version of the game, and people could tell because they hadn't even bothered to remove the cracker's logo. It's estimated that over 50% of games are now gone forever because companies just don't bother to preserve copies of the source code.
Hence all games should only work while online to keep commercials up to date and measure user interaction..., I mean, to provide the best user experience possible. /s
Indie games, FromSoft, and larian ftw.
They been doing that since forever ago
They're also using YOUR bandwidth to download these ads.
They needed to sell that turd of a movie somehow. 🤣
Imagine new patches for old games with this shit.
its almost like the rate of profit is falling, forcing capitalists to find new ways to exploit everything and everyone around them...
fuck that, if it has ads and/or microtransactions it better be free
Billboard ads? Shitty but ehh not that bad overall. In game ads over radio or video? Nah miss me on that.
It's the implementation that will probably annoy me the most. If the ingame radio station in GTA tried to sell me coke or Pepsi I probably wouldn't even notice since it fits in with the world. But knowing EA they will probably put them in as additional loading screen that you can't skip.
Ubisoft gonna try beat them to it
