• ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netOP
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    2 months ago

    Outside of sports games & racing games, and Death Stranding & Monster energy drinks, what other games have ads?

    Not being argumentative. I’m a PC gamer and I’m actually curious if there’s like Pizza Hut ads while playing God Of War on a console or something!

    • Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      No harm in asking, nw:

      The first one that comes to mind is Fortnite, it has been used for advertising Halo and Star Wars, at least I think those were sponsors veiled as simple crossovers but I’m sure they’re not the only sponsors/crossovers.

      Though, mostly I was refering to almost every live-service game as of late, if you count “please check out the shop and buy these new skins” as advertisements. They’re not being paid by third parties to deliver them, but they sure were as annoying as TV ads when I experienced them…
      The latest example I can think of is Sea Of Thieves, where I still haven’t fully figured out how menus work because sometimes half of the screen points you to some kind of shop.