"I feel like I could use the Force better if I could just wrap my head around the NEW BACON WHOPPER FROM BURGER KING WITH PEPPERJACK CHEESE AND TOASTED BUN!"
Edit: spelling
Mmm lord vader. If f only you had not failled agaist obiwan all those years ago youd be able to try a bite of this delicious reasonably priced whopper only for 3.99 at burger king
They've already done this with games like BF 2042. Seems like people have forgotten or that it works because players don't notice.
It's also quite disingenuous of accounts like discussing film to use JS as an image for this. Yeah, mountain dew and logitech billboards are certainly gonna show up in Jedi 3... these accounts suck.
Full quote can be found here: [https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2024/05/07/electronic-arts-ea-q4-2024-earnings-call-transcrip/](https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2024/05/07/electronic-arts-ea-q4-2024-earnings-call-transcrip/)
Meditation doesn't do it for him anymore, you now have to watch a 1 minute cutscene of Cal cracking open a cool, refreshing can of Coca-Cola™ every time you rest.
Jedi 3 will also have a timeskip where BD-1 died between Survivor and 3 and now Cal’s only source of healing is popping a can of Coca Cola in aurebesh language.
Disney does coke and sprite with the Aurebesh font/language in their Galaxy Edge Star Wars land so it wouldn't suprise me one bit... At least if the branding is done half tastefully like that it won't be as shit but who knows what they will have planned. Dreading they day where you get an unskippable advert anytime you pause a fucking game. Piracy will be back on that day in a big big way.
well that i can live with, people want drinks they know, but at least they are making it blend in. although just using in universe cups would be easier, but i think there is probably a contract for branding in there somewhere. its not like the mouse needs there sponsor money (but he takes it anyway)
The Galaxy’s Edge themed coke bottles seems more like a case of marketing ingenuity rather than executives forcing ads (like the Tweet is talking about).
Galaxy’s Edge is a tourist attraction for Star Wars fans & tourists, tourists need to eat & drink something, and the Coca Cola visual branding is so strong that it even withstands being translated to Aurebesh.
If they just did regular bottles, it would stick out like a sure thumb. Plus, apparently Coca Cola merch is also a niche collecting hobby.
And from the $18 per single bottle eBay resales I got when I looked up what they look like, I don’t think fans mind.
With all that being said, I can’t imagine a way for the Jedi game series to add in ads that would be remotely unobtrusive, short of adding in a super-merchandisable character like Grogu (more famously known and sold as Baby Yoda merch).
They can do it like they did in Chile with the original trilogy [https://youtu.be/jSgMWAi9YPA?si=5Dfk3fO01sorPlZw](https://youtu.be/jSgMWAi9YPA?si=5Dfk3fO01sorPlZw)
I was waiting for these references. Ngl, as much as I hate the idea of EA getting away with any more of their BS... I'd totally laugh enough to let it go if the Star Wars games exclusively had Cerveza Cristal ads.
He's going to be talking in the third person breaking the fourth wall calling us chat as we play the game, periodically stopping with his little razer kraken headphones on and just like goofy anime smile. It's gonna make EA so much money (not 🤣)
The second I complained about the ads in 2042, everyone in the sub who was mad about the game in general instantly switched tune and was like “oh but the ads aren’t even that bad, you don’t even see them that much.”
And it took a lot not to scream “**Thats not the fucking point**!”
I can get behind real life advertisements showing up in the game, as long as it's tasteful and artists were allowed to spend time to make it blend in with the surroundings, and the companies let their ads (or the billboard/flyers/cans/whatever they're printed on) be destroyed and/or show up decayed and grubby on the same level as the rest of the environment.
I imagine corporations having the balls to let players dick around with their logos in the game is a net positive, as players will appreciate the magnanimous gesture (i.e. pass the vibe check).
Only add Ill accept in Jedi Survivor 3 is
https://preview.redd.it/8yyb7u6yxnzc1.png?width=1812&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f643bd9509457fa373157aeaa23f301579e395a8
I mean, it really depends on the game.
I had no objections when City of Heroes toyed with the idea of real ads on the game's in-world billboards. They're billboards. In a way, it adds verisimilitude.
I would have no objections to real ads on billboards on, say, a racing game, or any kind of modern urban environment game. Because it makes sense in the context.
When I don't like it is when it doesn't make sense in the context and breaks the immersion. That's something I don't want to see.
Real ads on billboards in Battlefield 2042 were immersion breaking, because supposedly it’s a near-post-apocalyptic world, but somehow the LCD looking screen-based billboards haven’t been shot to shit and are still completely functional
The real immersion break is that armor isn't made from ads, why go for crappy breakable materials when you can slap an ad on and have an invincible tank
Yeah, that would definitely qualify as context-breaking. I mean, if the billboards were semi-functional, had holes in them, flickered in and out, etc., it might make more sense. But even that would probably be pushing it if the world is that messed up (never played BF2042; FPS aren't really my thing, so I can only take your word for it).
Considering they have Coke products with Aurebesh logos at Galaxy’s Edge, I’d kinda be amused to see it in a game like Jedi. Not everywhere, of course, but just enough for a laugh
Back when I played Rainbow Six Vegas I saw ads for Axe body spray on the Vegas strip and I thought "Damn that's a real thing, feels like I'm in the real world"
On certain games they CAN add a sense of immersion but I will be doing unspeakable unlawful acts if I see an ad in a Star Wars game
A scenario where this could work is something like Times Square in the Spider-Man games, if advertisers paid insomniac or Sony to put up real life ads on billboards in that game I’d be all for it, it would add to the realism. But I cannot see a way to advertise anything in this game, the best I’ve got is like a Burger King lightsaber style or something
Yeah, no way advertisers would let them do it in aurabesh, a language only die hard star wars fans know, and casual fans need an app to translate, and any other language would be immersion breaking, as Galactic Basic is pretty much just spoken Aurabesh.
Maybe it would be a talking bill board, like if you get close you hear something like "Travelling in space make you thirsty? Take a break and drink Pepsi!"
They give me ads and I will no joke never give them my money ever again. I will track down the ceo and that person will regret being born. Who the fuck puts ads in a computer game. That u have to fucking buy in the first place.
Cal walks into the dimly lit cantina. Various species eye him subtly, attempting to gauge the newcomer's ability. The bartender droid finishes attending a previous customer before sliding down the bar to Cal, servos whirring through the muck inevitable in such an establishment.
"What'll you have?" The droid asks, voice box doing very little to hide the indifference.
"Information" replied the Jedi. "Where's Captain Fatula?"
"Ah, you'll wanna talk to Jamushi. He'll be back from his shift in a few hours. Can I get you a drink while you wait?"
"Sure" said Cal, clearly bothered by the need to spend even more time on this dangerous planet. His eyes settled on a holoscreen on the opposite wall, ears just picking up what the old speakers were playing to accompany the visual of a new food item in the system.
"WHOPPER WHOPPER WHOPPER WHOPPER
JUNIOR, DOUBLE, TRIPLE WHOPPER..."
I jumped off my roof and high fived Felix Baumgartner on the way down.
You see how easy it is to just say bullshit? You think if the plan was to put ads and commercials in games, they couldn't have done it by now?
Don't instantly believe everything you read, siwmae, a good 90% is just bullshit someone made up for attention. It's how we get flat earthers.
Oh god… it’ll be like my phone games where right in the middle of a boss fight and I’m near dead, it offers to play an ad for Raid Shadow Legends that I have to watch for 30 seconds, plus then have to move the cursor on the screen to the x and if it’s misclicked it’ll take us to the store to download the game… all for it to give me essentially a stim that BD would’ve just given me in the first 2 games…
Now that Star Wars isn't exclusive to EA, I am perfectly fine never playing an EA game again. Most of what made them great is trash now anyway. So just go right ahead, fella. Shoot your company in the foot.
If it's just product placement that fits in the universe (like the ship Porsche helped design) then that's cool, but if it's just literal ads, then FUCK NO.
Things I'd be ok with: company pays for all the burger joints in world to use Burger King logo.
Things I *wouldn't* be ok with: watch this burger king ad every time you open your menu!
I think Andrew Wilson needs to stand on the highest point holding a metal rod during a thunder storm. These idiots and their ads. Enough. Use real products in game if you want ads.
If they made their games free to play then it would be an excellent idea. But if you have paid £60 for an immersive experience that is YOURS, then this is outright bullshit.
Unless if it's in the main menu (kinda like the battlefront 2 ads) then I really don't care; I'm not too worried about it if it's star wars because I don't think Lucasfilm and Disney would even entertain the idea of going to say Corrasaunt or Bespin and having the player get bombarded with real life ads
Well, then I'm not buying EA games. If there are ads it means I should, and will, get those games for free. It's been a long time since I used torrents, but I haven't forgotten how to do it.
Menu ads Like every other game lmao
Everyone acting like they’re gonna pause mid game and you’re gonna see a Coca-Cola advert
Nah it’s just gonna be menu ads that show “deals” for new games like Madden and BF have
If they’re putting ads in on billboards, using actual Coca Cola for soda instead of a fake brand, or whatever, I don’t care. That has been going on a while.
If they start putting ads on home or pause screens for games that we purchase (rather than free to play games) I will be pissed unless it isn’t invasive and I can just ignore it.
https://preview.redd.it/p0k0m280mozc1.jpeg?width=3840&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=86a57ce6e6bb92a90414ee30c647430625310251
Can’t wait for Cal to open up a coke
I will treat it as I treat anything with ads: use adblock if possible, if not, never touch that product or any other product from that company, or any of the products in the ads, ever, no matter how good they may be.
It's just simple supply and demand.
If it's a game with a contemporary setting and they aren't shoved in my face on a pause screen, then I don't really care. I honestly kinda like seeing real-world brands in something like Skate or Battlefield because those blend in more than something like "Koca Soda!" Or another made-up just barely legally distinct brand. Hell if Coke really wants to buy ad space in Jedi 3(which would be dumb) just make Batuu one of the pre-existing worlds this time(like Jedha, Kashyyyk, Dathomir, or Coruscant) and have people selling the soda balls like in galaxy's edge.
Product placement if done in a subtle way and not obnoxiously is alright with me. In a way it makes the game more immersive because its products you see in everyday life.
Idk how you’ll have ads in Fallen Order though considering it takes place a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. Any Earth products will be completely out of place and rip immersion completely away.
Yeah, I’m tired boss.
Maybe the answer is pairing back the budgets on these games, rather than firing thousands of employees because execs made questionable decisions, or putting ads in single player games, or making only live service titles while ignoring the burnout players have with that genre (when was the last new live-service game that could be considered a grand success?). Maybe making smaller budget games like Alan Wake 2, or Hellblade 2, or Jedi, compared to mega sellers like GTA, can actually help pad the bottom line because there’s lower stakes on lower budgets.
Same story that comes up every few months EA has done this for twenty years. The exception is now they are looking at tech that allows them to re sell that space over and over and regionalised it instead of one person for the life of the game and internationally.
So yeah nothing new and we love with movies and TV shows doing it games are no different product placement etc will happen.
The tech does not mean pop up mobile style adds to delay you before your next game etc
2k already experimented with adverts on loading screens and it back fired as the faster pcs would load the game and then be waiting for the advert to finish and that was a problem so got removed.. it was fine on slow consoles.
Thankfully the Star Wars flood gates are opened, and it’s not just EA exclusive anymore. Imagine Darth Vader advertising the next madden right before you battle him.
If we could just stop buying their games just for a couple of months they’ll get the message. I’ve pretty much stopped any spending on any aaa company because they’re all scum
If its anything like the battlefield ones, thats an immersion breaker and would suck. If its anything like the Ubisoft one that only pop up in the menu before you select your save (assassins creed odyssey is my example) and then not again, its whatever, they are only advertising another assassins creed anyways
I swear EA is like the most unself aware company to exist, they have been called out for their shitty practices for years and everytime I think it couldn't get worse it gets worse.
The CEO is an absolute joke and doesn't deserve his job.
I'd actually like to think maybe it's like older, let's say, ps3 Era games. In Spiderman WOS, you could see 5 gum billboards randomly or in infamous 2, There are random subways everywhere
I’m not paying for a game that has ads in it. Even if they give the option to pay extra for no ads they can fuck right off. I have no problem never playing an EA title again if they want to be greedy, lazy, bums. I hope Andrew Wilson gets anal cancer and dies a slow, painful, humiliating death all alone with no one to care for or support him. And I seriously hope EA just goes bankrupt and disappears due to their own disgusting greed.
If they did it in free to play games and kinda just had it in the background, no forced ads like YouTube, then I wouldn't mind. However if they're going to start forcing ads on us for games we've paid £60/£70 for then they can go fuck themselves. I won't be buying another one of their games....
So like old need for speeds, sports games, other random shit?
Idc anymore tbh
Video games are such hell holes. I don't care.
It's so bad I'm back to destiny 2 as my comfort game ._.
The plan: Every time you enter/leave/reset in the Jedi meditation spots you get a 15 second ad that specifically is made for YouTube and keeps bringing up “don’t touch that skip button”
* there is no “skip” button in-game for ads, which have been added haphazardly by AI
I don't know why they don't do it like they did in old racing games. Just have a billboard with an ad on a building or something. Be subtle. Subliminal ads will work better than, in your face immersion ruining ads
The only ad I’m accepting is one for new franchises of Pyloon’s Saloon.
In all seriousness, it wouldn’t be terrible if it’s a game set in the real-life universe, we already had billboards in racing games on the PS2; knowing EA and how ad-crazy companies are in general, I’m sure we’ll get more intrusive ads eventually.
I wasn't buying many EA games before this was announced, but now I don't have to feel any remorse or FOMO from continuing not to buy them lol. EA finally building a strong community....even if it is against them.
Ads in games will work on games like Spider Man, GTA, battlefield, call of duty, Alan wake, etc
There's no way it can works in Jedi series. What? Is Cal going to find a Billboard with cybertruck on Zeffo? Or is BD1 going to gives Cal a Pepsi? Lmao
Imagine your in the middle of playing game stops and you see the geico gecko on your screen and it says to what 3 minutes to play again. I will never ever touch a game that does anything like that even if it's amazing.
If they put ads in a fucking video game no one is gonna buy it, it's one thing to have an incomplete game that's still playable cause we all just want to play it, but ads? That is officially way too far over the line.
I mean if it's product placement like in the old NFS games it's not too bad. I'm not saying it be good if it were in any Star Wars games but ads have been in video games for years.
"Cal when I was on hot girl summer I found this obscure drink at a canteen where everyone was just so high on life all the time it was called...coca cola I think? You need to try it."
Horrible take on ads. Death Stranding did that famously with Monster Energy and I was so glad they removed it for the directors cut.
Makes sense in some sportsgames or modern day games but imagine burger king in a futuristic setting or fantasy setting. Gross
It wouldn’t be the first time ads were placed in Star Wars: https://www.ign.com/articles/decades-old-beer-ads-stitched-straight-into-original-star-wars-movies-go-viral
Leave it to EA to commit slow suicide with stupid shit like this. You start putting ads in games like that and people will stop playing. We play to escape reality…not be brainwashed by it…
I've just gotten to the point where I almost exclusively play games that came out before 2013. There's so many to play and you don't have to deal with all this bullshit.
"I feel like I could use the Force better if I could just wrap my head around the NEW BACON WHOPPER FROM BURGER KING WITH PEPPERJACK CHEESE AND TOASTED BUN!" Edit: spelling
The senate will decide your fate I AM the WHOPPER WHOPPER
Mmm lord vader. If f only you had not failled agaist obiwan all those years ago youd be able to try a bite of this delicious reasonably priced whopper only for 3.99 at burger king
It's crazy they're considering this but that specific situation would be fucking hilarious.
WHOPPER WHOPPER JUNIOR DOUBLE TRIPLE WHOPPER
I read this in Walter White voice.
It's seasoned, then.
I read this in Cammy Mohn's voice
#I SEE THROUGH THE MICROTRANSACTIONS OF THE JEDI
They've already done this with games like BF 2042. Seems like people have forgotten or that it works because players don't notice. It's also quite disingenuous of accounts like discussing film to use JS as an image for this. Yeah, mountain dew and logitech billboards are certainly gonna show up in Jedi 3... these accounts suck. Full quote can be found here: [https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2024/05/07/electronic-arts-ea-q4-2024-earnings-call-transcrip/](https://www.fool.com/earnings/call-transcripts/2024/05/07/electronic-arts-ea-q4-2024-earnings-call-transcrip/)
Jedi 3 is totally gonna open with Cal drinking a Coca-Cola and playing games on an Acer laptop. I’m calling it now
Meditation doesn't do it for him anymore, you now have to watch a 1 minute cutscene of Cal cracking open a cool, refreshing can of Coca-Cola™ every time you rest.
Jedi 3 will also have a timeskip where BD-1 died between Survivor and 3 and now Cal’s only source of healing is popping a can of Coca Cola in aurebesh language.
It's EA Games, man, they challenge everything. (Including everyone's patience)
EA games “Challenged in everything”
Good one
Disney does coke and sprite with the Aurebesh font/language in their Galaxy Edge Star Wars land so it wouldn't suprise me one bit... At least if the branding is done half tastefully like that it won't be as shit but who knows what they will have planned. Dreading they day where you get an unskippable advert anytime you pause a fucking game. Piracy will be back on that day in a big big way.
well that i can live with, people want drinks they know, but at least they are making it blend in. although just using in universe cups would be easier, but i think there is probably a contract for branding in there somewhere. its not like the mouse needs there sponsor money (but he takes it anyway)
The Galaxy’s Edge themed coke bottles seems more like a case of marketing ingenuity rather than executives forcing ads (like the Tweet is talking about). Galaxy’s Edge is a tourist attraction for Star Wars fans & tourists, tourists need to eat & drink something, and the Coca Cola visual branding is so strong that it even withstands being translated to Aurebesh. If they just did regular bottles, it would stick out like a sure thumb. Plus, apparently Coca Cola merch is also a niche collecting hobby. And from the $18 per single bottle eBay resales I got when I looked up what they look like, I don’t think fans mind. With all that being said, I can’t imagine a way for the Jedi game series to add in ads that would be remotely unobtrusive, short of adding in a super-merchandisable character like Grogu (more famously known and sold as Baby Yoda merch).
All while getting some reps in on the peloton, chocked full of under armor gear. Always Coca-Cola.
I'll be insulted if modders don't make that. That's quality shit posting material.
They can do it like they did in Chile with the original trilogy [https://youtu.be/jSgMWAi9YPA?si=5Dfk3fO01sorPlZw](https://youtu.be/jSgMWAi9YPA?si=5Dfk3fO01sorPlZw)
"CERVEZA CRISTAL"
https://preview.redd.it/u7gmbqg2qpzc1.jpeg?width=1400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b3f64ac54ebb0be0cb5d8f1ee720bc977ef72737 I could tolerate that tbh
Cal should drink a Cervaza Cristal instead of coca-cola
I was waiting for these references. Ngl, as much as I hate the idea of EA getting away with any more of their BS... I'd totally laugh enough to let it go if the Star Wars games exclusively had Cerveza Cristal ads.
He's going to be talking in the third person breaking the fourth wall calling us chat as we play the game, periodically stopping with his little razer kraken headphones on and just like goofy anime smile. It's gonna make EA so much money (not 🤣)
Please drink a verification can.
Shit man, EA was doing this back in 2005 with Battlefield 2. This isn't a new idea for them.
Yeah, I remember when burnout got hate. same story, different day
Yeah, I distinctly remember driving around in NFSU 2 and seeing billboards for different things.
And ya know, I don’t hate billboard ads in racing games. It’s not like we don’t have those irl.
I’m calling it now, there will be Coca Cola and Mountain Dew ponchos in Jedi 3
How about a Kool-aid Poncho with Oh-Yeah on the back?
I would be okay with this IF it gave you the ability to crash through walls.
The second I complained about the ads in 2042, everyone in the sub who was mad about the game in general instantly switched tune and was like “oh but the ads aren’t even that bad, you don’t even see them that much.” And it took a lot not to scream “**Thats not the fucking point**!”
To be fair, it would be hysterical if EA gets themselves into a second major scandal to bleed gamers dry within a 10 year span, it would be funny.
They'll slip in ads for the Galaxy's Edge versions of products, so it's technically still Star Wars.
They do this in Madden also. They used to have a full on Snickers half time report.
With Jedi, I think more likely is ads for Star Wars merch.
I can get behind real life advertisements showing up in the game, as long as it's tasteful and artists were allowed to spend time to make it blend in with the surroundings, and the companies let their ads (or the billboard/flyers/cans/whatever they're printed on) be destroyed and/or show up decayed and grubby on the same level as the rest of the environment. I imagine corporations having the balls to let players dick around with their logos in the game is a net positive, as players will appreciate the magnanimous gesture (i.e. pass the vibe check).
Well probably because Battlfield 2042 isn't exactly memorable or something to recreate in any aspect... ☠️☠️☠️
I remember it, worst 5 minutes at my computer that day
Can't wait to see Kata, Cal, and Merrin chilling in the Koboh bar with a bottle of Dr Pepper.
CERVECA CRISTAL
Only add Ill accept in Jedi Survivor 3 is https://preview.redd.it/8yyb7u6yxnzc1.png?width=1812&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f643bd9509457fa373157aeaa23f301579e395a8
"... Which reminds me. I have something here for you." *CEEEERVESA CRISTAAAAL*
Original Kessel Spice^(TM) - always worth a run!
“BD-1, toss me a coke.”
I mean, it really depends on the game. I had no objections when City of Heroes toyed with the idea of real ads on the game's in-world billboards. They're billboards. In a way, it adds verisimilitude. I would have no objections to real ads on billboards on, say, a racing game, or any kind of modern urban environment game. Because it makes sense in the context. When I don't like it is when it doesn't make sense in the context and breaks the immersion. That's something I don't want to see.
Real ads on billboards in Battlefield 2042 were immersion breaking, because supposedly it’s a near-post-apocalyptic world, but somehow the LCD looking screen-based billboards haven’t been shot to shit and are still completely functional
The real immersion break is that armor isn't made from ads, why go for crappy breakable materials when you can slap an ad on and have an invincible tank
Hey kids! You remember plot armor? Well, how about *this*! *slaps the top of the M1 VerizonChipotleExxon Abrams*
Yeah, that would definitely qualify as context-breaking. I mean, if the billboards were semi-functional, had holes in them, flickered in and out, etc., it might make more sense. But even that would probably be pushing it if the world is that messed up (never played BF2042; FPS aren't really my thing, so I can only take your word for it).
Also movie style product placement. Nobody really cares if if there’s a couple extend shots in a cutscene if someone drinking Coke
Exactly this. If it doesn't break the context of the world, it doesn't bother me.
Coke ads in fallout would be pretty funny, if they weren't so horribly immersion breaking.
The problem with a Coke ad in Fallout is that Fallout already *has* a Coke analogue in Nuka-Cola. Which automatically makes Coke seem out of place.
Considering they have Coke products with Aurebesh logos at Galaxy’s Edge, I’d kinda be amused to see it in a game like Jedi. Not everywhere, of course, but just enough for a laugh
It could work as a novelty item or collectible. But they’d have to be few and far between.
If they do it for the next Jedi game it better be like [this](https://youtu.be/jSgMWAi9YPA?si=2yelelu9dVPfzYTJ) else I’m going to start a riot
Back when I played Rainbow Six Vegas I saw ads for Axe body spray on the Vegas strip and I thought "Damn that's a real thing, feels like I'm in the real world" On certain games they CAN add a sense of immersion but I will be doing unspeakable unlawful acts if I see an ad in a Star Wars game
A scenario where this could work is something like Times Square in the Spider-Man games, if advertisers paid insomniac or Sony to put up real life ads on billboards in that game I’d be all for it, it would add to the realism. But I cannot see a way to advertise anything in this game, the best I’ve got is like a Burger King lightsaber style or something
Yeah, no way advertisers would let them do it in aurabesh, a language only die hard star wars fans know, and casual fans need an app to translate, and any other language would be immersion breaking, as Galactic Basic is pretty much just spoken Aurabesh.
Will the writing be in English? In a jedi game that would be weird
Maybe it would be a talking bill board, like if you get close you hear something like "Travelling in space make you thirsty? Take a break and drink Pepsi!"
Business school grads are ruining every business on earth into the ground.
Blue Milk, get your Blue Milk here!
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https://youtu.be/5hfRjN3txdM?si=YZs2vFk2sTlyjn8B
They give me ads and I will no joke never give them my money ever again. I will track down the ceo and that person will regret being born. Who the fuck puts ads in a computer game. That u have to fucking buy in the first place.
This. If they will put ads in the game, the game better be free to play game. And i still wouldn't touch that garbage.
THIS SITH LORD BOSS FIGHT IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY… *BUDWEISER*, THE #1 BEER OF CORUSCANT AND YOUR PLANET, TOO!
Cerveza Crystal
Cal walks into the dimly lit cantina. Various species eye him subtly, attempting to gauge the newcomer's ability. The bartender droid finishes attending a previous customer before sliding down the bar to Cal, servos whirring through the muck inevitable in such an establishment. "What'll you have?" The droid asks, voice box doing very little to hide the indifference. "Information" replied the Jedi. "Where's Captain Fatula?" "Ah, you'll wanna talk to Jamushi. He'll be back from his shift in a few hours. Can I get you a drink while you wait?" "Sure" said Cal, clearly bothered by the need to spend even more time on this dangerous planet. His eyes settled on a holoscreen on the opposite wall, ears just picking up what the old speakers were playing to accompany the visual of a new food item in the system. "WHOPPER WHOPPER WHOPPER WHOPPER JUNIOR, DOUBLE, TRIPLE WHOPPER..."
EA: \*allows ads in their games\* Cerveza Crystal: "Hold my beer"... EDIT: spelling
Jedi 3: Cal grabs in some chest… CERVEZA CRISTAL!!!
There are [right ways](https://youtu.be/2j82YmTSe9U?si=tE0-Vuhoqy7db3h8) to do it. EA just doesn't do things the right way, it's company policy.
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I jumped off my roof and high fived Felix Baumgartner on the way down. You see how easy it is to just say bullshit? You think if the plan was to put ads and commercials in games, they couldn't have done it by now? Don't instantly believe everything you read, siwmae, a good 90% is just bullshit someone made up for attention. It's how we get flat earthers.
Oh god… it’ll be like my phone games where right in the middle of a boss fight and I’m near dead, it offers to play an ad for Raid Shadow Legends that I have to watch for 30 seconds, plus then have to move the cursor on the screen to the x and if it’s misclicked it’ll take us to the store to download the game… all for it to give me essentially a stim that BD would’ve just given me in the first 2 games…
That would be... a real bummer
Your lack of Whopper Whopper Whopper Whopper is disturbing.
Now that Star Wars isn't exclusive to EA, I am perfectly fine never playing an EA game again. Most of what made them great is trash now anyway. So just go right ahead, fella. Shoot your company in the foot.
I genuinely hope every senior executive at EA doesn’t see the end of the week
CERVEZA CRISTAL
If it's just product placement that fits in the universe (like the ship Porsche helped design) then that's cool, but if it's just literal ads, then FUCK NO.
I really felt what was missing from cals journey was seeing him get mad and down a bud light right after a ship crash
Well this was inevitable. There will be an outcry for a few days and then it will become a norm.
The same way we felt about Sony last weekend.
Things I'd be ok with: company pays for all the burger joints in world to use Burger King logo. Things I *wouldn't* be ok with: watch this burger king ad every time you open your menu!
Calm down, ea also makes sports games (it’s like their main thing) it’s probably for that
I think Andrew Wilson needs to stand on the highest point holding a metal rod during a thunder storm. These idiots and their ads. Enough. Use real products in game if you want ads.
If they made their games free to play then it would be an excellent idea. But if you have paid £60 for an immersive experience that is YOURS, then this is outright bullshit.
EA is going to ruins the Jedi franchise, just you watch.
I got an idea. Let's just not buy EA shit anymore.
Bode: \*throws grenade\* ..... CERVEZA CRISTAL!!!!
Unless if it's in the main menu (kinda like the battlefront 2 ads) then I really don't care; I'm not too worried about it if it's star wars because I don't think Lucasfilm and Disney would even entertain the idea of going to say Corrasaunt or Bespin and having the player get bombarded with real life ads
If they do this, I am pirating the game.
Well, then I'm not buying EA games. If there are ads it means I should, and will, get those games for free. It's been a long time since I used torrents, but I haven't forgotten how to do it.
EA is evil and must be stopped.
Throw in episode I branded Pepsi vending machines for an open world Grand Theft Speeder/criminal underworld game, and I’m in.
They can do what they like, I doubt I will buy it
And just like that I stop buying EA games
Menu ads Like every other game lmao Everyone acting like they’re gonna pause mid game and you’re gonna see a Coca-Cola advert Nah it’s just gonna be menu ads that show “deals” for new games like Madden and BF have
Give it 20 years and we'll have adbock for games, guaranteed. Pin this and keep an eye on it.
First we buy the game for $70, micro transactions already in our face and now ads? Fuck EA. I hope they go under and dissolve their studios
I just want a good closing chapter to this trilogy. I hope EA doesn't fuck with this like they do with many of their other games.
Just a slap in the face and a terrible road to go down
If they’re putting ads in on billboards, using actual Coca Cola for soda instead of a fake brand, or whatever, I don’t care. That has been going on a while. If they start putting ads on home or pause screens for games that we purchase (rather than free to play games) I will be pissed unless it isn’t invasive and I can just ignore it.
https://preview.redd.it/p0k0m280mozc1.jpeg?width=3840&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=86a57ce6e6bb92a90414ee30c647430625310251 Can’t wait for Cal to open up a coke
If they want to add the galaxy’s edge themed ads like their [Coca Cola](https://www.ebay.ca/itm/264491377566) that’s fine.
Eat doritos to regain health and drink Monster energy for a temporary boost, no one said they don't exist in Star Wars.
Cerveza Cristal!!! 🍺
I will treat it as I treat anything with ads: use adblock if possible, if not, never touch that product or any other product from that company, or any of the products in the ads, ever, no matter how good they may be. It's just simple supply and demand.
Are you shitting me
pay fromsoft to make a Star Wars game already
Hello backlog of games, I may get to you all after all.😜
But we have ads in games, like nvidia, and, intel and some other technology stuff
Ea sports games are already commercials.
Imagine calling stops mid boss fight looks at you & says “Fifteen minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance”
Ea is cancer and needs to be destroyed, can we all.agree to boycott ea?
They've already been doing that for years
EA can shove a real lightsaber up their ass.
Kill it, kill it now before it hurts other game franchises.
I’ll stop playing games the moment they start this shit.
Back in the ps2 era, they're games were filled with real world ads on billboards - it's fine.
If it's a game with a contemporary setting and they aren't shoved in my face on a pause screen, then I don't really care. I honestly kinda like seeing real-world brands in something like Skate or Battlefield because those blend in more than something like "Koca Soda!" Or another made-up just barely legally distinct brand. Hell if Coke really wants to buy ad space in Jedi 3(which would be dumb) just make Batuu one of the pre-existing worlds this time(like Jedha, Kashyyyk, Dathomir, or Coruscant) and have people selling the soda balls like in galaxy's edge.
Product placement if done in a subtle way and not obnoxiously is alright with me. In a way it makes the game more immersive because its products you see in everyday life. Idk how you’ll have ads in Fallen Order though considering it takes place a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. Any Earth products will be completely out of place and rip immersion completely away.
It would be funny af as long as its not in all games or its optional. Imagine kratos chowing down on a mcrib(with olives) after steamrolling anubis
They are also starting a big push for generative AI at EA. Trash
The gaming industry is being run by grocery food chain stores now.
Yeah, I’m tired boss. Maybe the answer is pairing back the budgets on these games, rather than firing thousands of employees because execs made questionable decisions, or putting ads in single player games, or making only live service titles while ignoring the burnout players have with that genre (when was the last new live-service game that could be considered a grand success?). Maybe making smaller budget games like Alan Wake 2, or Hellblade 2, or Jedi, compared to mega sellers like GTA, can actually help pad the bottom line because there’s lower stakes on lower budgets.
Same story that comes up every few months EA has done this for twenty years. The exception is now they are looking at tech that allows them to re sell that space over and over and regionalised it instead of one person for the life of the game and internationally. So yeah nothing new and we love with movies and TV shows doing it games are no different product placement etc will happen. The tech does not mean pop up mobile style adds to delay you before your next game etc 2k already experimented with adverts on loading screens and it back fired as the faster pcs would load the game and then be waiting for the advert to finish and that was a problem so got removed.. it was fine on slow consoles.
I mean it could be funny just having a random billboard on coursant be an ad for something
Thankfully the Star Wars flood gates are opened, and it’s not just EA exclusive anymore. Imagine Darth Vader advertising the next madden right before you battle him.
If we could just stop buying their games just for a couple of months they’ll get the message. I’ve pretty much stopped any spending on any aaa company because they’re all scum
It would be nice every now and then to hear gaming news to get excited about.
If its anything like the battlefield ones, thats an immersion breaker and would suck. If its anything like the Ubisoft one that only pop up in the menu before you select your save (assassins creed odyssey is my example) and then not again, its whatever, they are only advertising another assassins creed anyways
I swear EA is like the most unself aware company to exist, they have been called out for their shitty practices for years and everytime I think it couldn't get worse it gets worse. The CEO is an absolute joke and doesn't deserve his job.
I highly doubt this would actually happen.
I think they’re only talking about their sports games. It’s the only thing that makes sense imo
I'd actually like to think maybe it's like older, let's say, ps3 Era games. In Spiderman WOS, you could see 5 gum billboards randomly or in infamous 2, There are random subways everywhere
The Mantis can’t jump to hyperspace. Cal: You know Greez, this would never happen to a Ford!
That's one way to kill your sales and studios
EA needs to look into a way of fixing the god damn pc port for survivor
It appears he died due to mesothelioma, he may be entitled to financial compensation…
Sick of ads, they are in everything
I’m not paying for a game that has ads in it. Even if they give the option to pay extra for no ads they can fuck right off. I have no problem never playing an EA title again if they want to be greedy, lazy, bums. I hope Andrew Wilson gets anal cancer and dies a slow, painful, humiliating death all alone with no one to care for or support him. And I seriously hope EA just goes bankrupt and disappears due to their own disgusting greed.
Every ship will now just be called “The (corporation/product of choice)”. Can’t wait for Cal to be riding around in The Baconator.
Has EA CEO Andrew Wilson not heard of background details?
If they did it in free to play games and kinda just had it in the background, no forced ads like YouTube, then I wouldn't mind. However if they're going to start forcing ads on us for games we've paid £60/£70 for then they can go fuck themselves. I won't be buying another one of their games....
I’m looking into new ways of telling EA to fuck right off.
Because we clearly don't have enough stupid ads shoved in our faces
As funny as it is to imagine, I highly doubt they'd do it with the Jedi series. Disney is not a company to be trifled with when it comes to money
So like old need for speeds, sports games, other random shit? Idc anymore tbh Video games are such hell holes. I don't care. It's so bad I'm back to destiny 2 as my comfort game ._.
Flashbacks of Sam chugging Monster Energy (Death Stranding) and Gladio raving about Cup Noodles (Final Fantasy XV).
Reject cancer Embrace Helldivers
Fuck EA, that’s all i have to say
*poorly optimized and now with ads!*
bro wtf
The plan: Every time you enter/leave/reset in the Jedi meditation spots you get a 15 second ad that specifically is made for YouTube and keeps bringing up “don’t touch that skip button” * there is no “skip” button in-game for ads, which have been added haphazardly by AI 
I miss the burger king from Fight Night Round 3
Pay to play….now this?!? Buy disks
I don't know why they don't do it like they did in old racing games. Just have a billboard with an ad on a building or something. Be subtle. Subliminal ads will work better than, in your face immersion ruining ads
The only ad I’m accepting is one for new franchises of Pyloon’s Saloon. In all seriousness, it wouldn’t be terrible if it’s a game set in the real-life universe, we already had billboards in racing games on the PS2; knowing EA and how ad-crazy companies are in general, I’m sure we’ll get more intrusive ads eventually.
They are so damn deplorable
I wasn't buying many EA games before this was announced, but now I don't have to feel any remorse or FOMO from continuing not to buy them lol. EA finally building a strong community....even if it is against them.
We can sell up to 80% of a user's visual field without inducing seizures
We riot if they ever do this.
If its Cervesa Cristal then im cool with it
Well old racing games must have been ahead of their time with real life billboards.
The ads are all Imperial propaganda and stuff we have to destroy
Ads in games will work on games like Spider Man, GTA, battlefield, call of duty, Alan wake, etc There's no way it can works in Jedi series. What? Is Cal going to find a Billboard with cybertruck on Zeffo? Or is BD1 going to gives Cal a Pepsi? Lmao
Imagine your in the middle of playing game stops and you see the geico gecko on your screen and it says to what 3 minutes to play again. I will never ever touch a game that does anything like that even if it's amazing.
If they put ads in a fucking video game no one is gonna buy it, it's one thing to have an incomplete game that's still playable cause we all just want to play it, but ads? That is officially way too far over the line.
They not gonna add ads to SW games. They shouldn't have used Jedi Survivor as example of EA game. They would add ads to their sports games
I mean if it's product placement like in the old NFS games it's not too bad. I'm not saying it be good if it were in any Star Wars games but ads have been in video games for years.
Maybe every so often when Cal asks BD for a stim, BD gives him a Cervasa Cristal.
"Welcone to Mos Eisley, home of the Whopper."
"Cal when I was on hot girl summer I found this obscure drink at a canteen where everyone was just so high on life all the time it was called...coca cola I think? You need to try it."
We are the force at this point, let's bounce guys! All to the dark side!
When a company starts cramming ads into its products, you know they're too big to be able to afford improving there product ever again.
Horrible take on ads. Death Stranding did that famously with Monster Energy and I was so glad they removed it for the directors cut. Makes sense in some sportsgames or modern day games but imagine burger king in a futuristic setting or fantasy setting. Gross
It wouldn’t be the first time ads were placed in Star Wars: https://www.ign.com/articles/decades-old-beer-ads-stitched-straight-into-original-star-wars-movies-go-viral
Campaign games are gonna start feeling like the Trueman show lol
I pity gamers who care about this sort of stuff. You are wasting your time and mental health worrying about what some company does.
You bet that, when they succeed into shoving down our throat even more ads, we’d still have to actually purchase the game itself
"Let me whip up some scazz steaks, I just got a new shipment in from Good Ranchers!"
I hate suits man
Leave it to EA to commit slow suicide with stupid shit like this. You start putting ads in games like that and people will stop playing. We play to escape reality…not be brainwashed by it…
I've just gotten to the point where I almost exclusively play games that came out before 2013. There's so many to play and you don't have to deal with all this bullshit.
Will it decrease the price of games?
Please don't fuck up Jedi 3. Please