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[-] odium@programming.dev 69 points 11 months ago

Technical error? A computer glitch doesn't create ads, someone wrote that code and the only error was that they weren't planning on rolling it out yet.

[-] swordgeek@lemmy.ca 15 points 11 months ago

Exactly. Ads were created, the tooling was written into the game, and only then could a 'technical error' be responsible for activating the ads at the wrong time.

[-] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

The ad is intentional. When it appeared is the issue. I've seen similar ads in multiple games when at the title screen.

Halo will pop an ad for new content, battle pass sales, etc. Hitman had ads for new content. NHL 23 showed ads for new content... All on the opening screens before getting in-game. I imagine the bug here is that the popup was triggered by an overlay or menu transition without excluding it during gameplay.

Also, it's not like it was an ad for Pepsi or something. It was an Assassin's Creed game showing an ad for an Assassin's Creed sale.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago

It could be as simple as click to go to store

[-] Sigmatics@lemmy.ca -2 points 11 months ago

Not defending Ubi here, but Uplay and the games are pretty tightly integrated (see achievements). It may have indeed just been an accident

[-] criticalimpact@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago

Technical error or "we accidentally turned on a new feature that we are still trying to work out how to get people to accept, let's accidentally turn it on and see how they react"

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 9 points 11 months ago

Bullshit. How dumb do they think we are!?

[-] Thranduil@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Room temp iq of a freezer

[-] shiveyarbles@beehaw.org 9 points 11 months ago

Oops we programmed some ads into our game, damn these clumsy sausage fingers

[-] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 1 points 11 months ago

God I love the hero image in this article

[-] _TheThunderWolf_@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Ass creed 🤣 ???

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