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Ads Retroactively Added To Wipeout HD, Soon Others
An anonymous reader writes "American users of Wipeout HD might have noticed that there's an advertisement showing up all of a sudden during loading, both during online and offline play. This, according to a poster on the well-known gaming forum NeoGAF, is being done covertly. The writer suspects that the display software was installed during update 2.01, and the ad-content is now being snuck in. Gamasutra has a story on the company responsible for the software to deliver these ads, Double Fusion, which said it plans to launch in-game advertising in 'another handful' of PS3 games by the end of the year. So, what's next? Can we look forward to fighting the Kool-Aid Man and zombified Mars bars in Uncharted, or is there anything that can be done to hinder companies from adding advertisements retroactively, without the customer's prior knowledge?"
I love the choice of words in the summary: the ads were "snuck in," as if the developers were accountable to a bunch of junior college fuck-ups on slashdot, and would somehow have to answer to the basement virgins if they placed advertising with a little more fanfare. Face facts fatties: you don't matter. Nobody snuck anything in, they just went over your heads because they're not interested in your input.
It also amuses me that somebody tagged the article "boycott." Your empty threats don't scare anyone. Hint: It's not a boycott if you were going to pirate it anyway. And I think it's well known at this point that the average slashdork has neither the willpower nor integrity to participate in any sort of collective action that requires any self-sacrifice.
Such human garbage here- a bunch of fat, goateed cubicle shit. You guys are some of the vilest hypocrites gathered on the internet.
Wipeout HD is $20. Tell me that isn't cheap enough already to be permitted some ad revenue.
- Michael T. Babcock (Yes, I blog)