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Gamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games (www.techspot.com)
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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I remember seeing ads for real products in Need for Speed: Carbon (2006) and Cities XL (2009). I never really had a problem with diegetic ads that made sense (like on billboards). Interrupting gameplay to serve ads is going over the line.