EA Embedding Ads in Video Games

[Guest Rabbit]

I don't think people would bother unless it was huge and annoying.

[Sonic 302]

lets hope they don't add C&C3

It won't be seen in C&C 3.

[Luk3us 63]

you know, soon after they released the game, someone would edit the ads out and release it in a pack

 

Its never that easy.

[F15pilotX 4]

still, I'm sure somone would try :wink:

[comander starlin 6]

i agree someone will try

[cnc_sage 0]

I don't know if anyone heard yet but BF2142 installs spyware.

Here's a newspost from CnC Infiltration:

 

This is a warning for everyone out there who is considering purchasing BF2142, DON'T! CGW through Shacknews is reporting that BF2142 installs spyware onto your system.

 

So. In the latest CGW podcast, they received retail boxed copies of BF 2142.

 

When you open the box, a big slip of paper falls out first, preceeding any discs or manuals. The slip of paper says, essentially, that 2142 includes monitoring software which runs while your computer is online, and records "anonymous" information like your IP address, surfing habits (probably via cookie scans), and other "computing habits" in order to report this information back to ad companies and ad servers, which generates in-game ads.

 

Now, I can live with certain in-game ads (though apparently there will be Dodge truck and Neon ads in the bleak, futuristic world of 2142), but including a lengthy description — outside of even the Eula — seems to indicate even EA knows that this is some shady borderline spyware ****. I don't support it and won't be buying 2142 (for a host of other reasons, too).

Same news at Planet CnC. Could CnC3 be next?

[comander starlin 6]

didn't Sony BMG get into trouble with that sort of thing a while back?

[Guest Rabbit]

BF 2142 is gonna have them...

 

Weird how you pretty much spelled out the future right there. :?

[Dr. Rodney McKay 0]

Yeah they did, Starlin but they didn't put a warning.

[Doctor Destiny 42]

Yeah they did, Starlin but they didn't put a warning.

And it was a rootkit, which is far more damaging than a little tracker.

[TheBlackOut 7]

BF 2142 is gonna have them...

 

Weird how you pretty much spelled out the future right there. :?

 

Booyah bitches.

[comander starlin 6]

but putting an advertisement tracker into a game is that right?and if they are putting it there you should be able to disable it in options i don't think they will allow you to do that, though.

[TheBlackOut 7]

If I was a company I'd do that. How else would you generate teh ads?