EA shifting ad sales in-house starting with Madden NFL 11

I hear ya man

YES Mamba....how about some cheaper games!!!!

I have not paid full price for these games in a long time. I will wait until a buddy of mine lets me borrow 'em or I find 'em at a pawn shop. If more people would do this and hit EA in the wallets, then maybe they would think about lowering the price of these games that have helped pay for themselves with in-game advertising.

Lower the price to $30 and you still make a killing with sales and advertisers.

What game is that article image taken from? Is it photoshopped?

So we are still going to pay full price for a game they get to sell ads in? The ads get forced into our face and there is nothing we can do....

This is almost as bad as movies. Like Star Trek that had that nokia interface in the corvette. I mean that was just stupid.


The only reason ads, or real brands should be used at all in games is to make them more realistic. Like in Need for speed, by buying "Borla" brand performance parts.

Throwing up billboards, or having the in game announcer in madden say , "This halftime show is brought to you by Pepsi" is stupid and pointless.

And in all reality, if the gaming community wanted to show that it was really in control, everyone could boycott the next big game with ads in it, and show them we dont want them to generate excess revenue by shoving ads in our face without our consent.

That screenshot isnt too bad. At least you see more colors than brown and gray

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