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PS5 Homescreen Now Replaces Unique Video Game Art With Annoying Ads You Can’t Turn Off (www.ign.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by simple@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world

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Wow, this is awful. Some people reported that these ads are also very petty and not necessarily related to the game, like apparently Elden Ring shows an ad for a licensed mousepad when you hover over the game now...

Edit: Playstation Product Manager says this is actually a new bug. I really doubt it but they do seem to be "fixing it".

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[-] GoodEye8@lemm.ee 35 points 1 month ago

To be fair, Windows is getting worse every year as well and Linux isn't officially supported by most developers so you kinda need to compromise somewhere.

I personally went with Linux because I got fed up with Windows bullshit and the games I can't play are mostly games I'm not really interested in playing in the first place.

[-] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The good thing is that Linux is officially becoming a market space that they have to pay attention to or lose money. Not because of us, but steam deck normalized it. 4% of users doesn't sound like a lot, but to a company who is desperate enough to put ads everywhere just to make a few pennies, well, it may be worth it now

[-] Asafum@feddit.nl 5 points 1 month ago

This is where I'm at too. I'm so fucking mad at the trajectory Microsuck is taking because I love indie games and getting into early access stuff and they often don't work on Linux. Plus star citizen... Stupid anti cheat stuff doesn't play nice with Linux :/