This is clearly them testing the waters to see how big the backlash will be for even more intrusive ads, plain and simple.
A code error would probably crash the game if it went to pop up something that’s not meant to be there, or at least make it unplayable. This was not the case, and it was clearly meant to be there.
If there is a huge fallout over it, they’ll push the rollout date further back. If people don’t seem to care, which THEY FUCKING DO, then they’ll just push the date up.
Every time I see this shit, I wonder just how satirical the Drink verification can meme will end up being.
Every time I see this shit, I wonder just how satirical the Drink verification can meme will end up being
Not.
I don't touch much with ads so I avoid most of their campaign of horseshit, but the current CoD definitely had a double xp cross promotion with Little Ceasars pizza, and they've done Mountain Dew in the past. So you get punished with half progression if you don't constantly throw money at it already.
Wasn’t it Mt. Dew and Doritos, or has it mainly been Halo hitting the double dip on that?
They’ve been doing it for so long now, I’ve forgotten. I think the earliest I remember was those WoW-based sodas that had a pet tied to which flavor you got.
Then came the wall of Master Chief watching you walk down the aisle trying to do your shopping.
This was no accident. The saddest part of all this is the fact that the general public will accept this and it will soon become the norm. It is now assassins greed.
Just the other day I accidently sleep coded an entire pop-up ad system and put it our automated delivery system tool so all customers know to buy stuff they don’t need or want.
Yeah, I was about to say, as a software engineer I can totally understand how that might have happened and am not surprised… But the skeptic/cynic in me feels like it’s a convenient excuse.
I remember reading about companies developing ML based software that touted some effectiveness at replacing CEOs, though it never seemed to have went anywhere.
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