Surprised it took them this long, to be honest...
*goes and hugs Vive!
Surprised it took them this long, to be honest...
*goes and hugs Vive!
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Originally Posted by Mark Tyson
Reminds me of: https://techreport.com/news/11034/battlefield-2142-in-game-ads-pack-some-surprises/
Reminds me of Ready Player One:
"We estimate that we can sell up to 80% of an individual's visual field before inducing siezures."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpPE85Jogjw
Ad quality and relevance doesn't matter that much. What matters is how obtrusive the ad is.
I don't have much of a problem seeing ads, but auto-playing video ads or ads that take significant screen real estate will be a problem for me.
Well, that, basically.
But .... it's pretty academic for me as I've yet to try a VR system I could use without gaining a pounding headache.
That said, on the principle, I would not pay to buy a game with ad's in it, period. Nor, would I buy gaming hardware from a company I thought, or even suspected, might go that route.
I go to considerable lengths to avoid adverts ruining my TV-watching experience, including transferring Freeview.Tivo programs to HD/PVR's for the explicit purpose of removing the adverts before I watch the program, as the bleeping ad's utterly ruin my viewing enjoyment if they 'break the spell' of immersion in the program. I have three such recorders, and around £400 each, in order to do that.
I absolutely detest adverts, in all shapes and forms, whether relevant or not, but targetted ad's using my personal data is one of the very few hot topics that make me see red. Which is why I detest and despise, among others, Google.
Yes, I know it's damn near impossible to avoid entirely. That's largely why I hate them with such vitriol.
So, FB doing this doesn't actually affect me as I wouldn't be very likely (snowball's chances in hell) of buying VR anyway, but if I had been interested,I wouldn't be any longer. It would have stopped cold at this announcement. If it's a "trial", I'd bet my left testicle it's the thin end of the FB wedge.
A lesson learned from PeterB about dignity in adversity, so Peter, In Memorium, "Onwards and Upwards".
That's the first thing I thought of, it's been done before. I actually don't recall ever noticing ads in 2142, I was too busy playing the game (fairly quick way to die is to stand and gawp at something in FPS games...)
Anything related to Facebook is bad in my book. So I'd never buy their hardware in the first place, what concerns me is if other developers and publishers suddenly start trying to spam me with adverts in games.
The place it was most noticeable was Suez Canal, on the big dirt road there were several billboards and I remember driving around in the little car once from one of the missile points to the central one and seeing an advert for gaming peripherals one game then an esports event the next. It's burned on my memory because I was so shocked that I had never seen anything like it before.
I think I also remember it on Fall of Berlin, there were several billboards dotted around.
I think they phased it out in one of the later updates though as I think it was drawing more negative attention than positive attention they wanted.
I was happy to buy an Oculus Rift back in the day, which I still use today. But I was never happy with the exclusivity of the Oculus store. I've spent ZERO there, while picking up too many VR titles on Steam. The result being that I get to keep a playable VR library when I upgrade to Valve's Index, while also giving Facebook the finger.
Friesiansam (18-06-2021)
Same here. I always wanted one of the Oculus VR headsets but as soon as I heard Facebook was buying them out I quickly lost interest. I want nothing to do with Facebook.
So how many of those promises that were made when FB bought Oculus have been broken now? The not needing a FB account and adverts are certainly two.
"Facebook's VR ads test loses first game after backlash," reports the BBC.
Seems like Resolution Games, makers of Blastron, have "reversed course after a backlash from players," so won't be running ads.
A win for people power against Facebook? Or a poor dev falling victim to cancel culture?
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