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Gamers enraged at Ubisoft for injecting ads into the middle of video games (www.techspot.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 63 points 11 months ago (12 children)

The first time I saw Ubisoft doing this was actually kinda neat because it was done well.

It was Rainbow Six Vegas/Vegas 2 and the billboards and posters scattered around were real ads. I thought it was a clever way to improve immersion.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I want to note since people are not happy with this example and still talking about the good old days, this method is pretty old-school In X-Men Mutant Academy is a pretty bad example but that's why I remember it and I want to provide some sort of proof

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