EA outdoes itselve on this one,

**Fragony** · 10-17-2006, 09:10

http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=13049860

Basicly you are paying for spyware and ingame adds, no BF2142 for me. For you as well I hope, this goes too far.

**Mikeus Caesar** · 10-17-2006, 16:33

No way am i getting it. I mean, come on, this 'other' mysterious scanning stuff might record everything, right down to the software on my computer.

Issues of privacy abound.

**Keba** · 10-17-2006, 20:20

Well, that solves that. I was actually thinking of buying the full version, but with this ... no way, no way in hell.

**Blodrast** · 10-17-2006, 20:38

Tsk, tsk, y'all have anything to hide ? It's for your own good, really, think of all the targeted advertising you'll get, ads tailored to your personal tastes and interests, what's wrong with that ?
Oh, and rest assured that all your information is strictly confidential, between EA and its designated business partners, and we'll never misuse it or anything. No, sirree.

**Grey_Fox** · 10-17-2006, 21:28

Why do you hate freedom?

**Xiahou** · 10-17-2006, 21:49

I'd like to see the spyware claim substantiated somewhere else before I buy into that one.

However, the game will definitely have streaming ads that will be constantly downloading whether you want them to or not. For me, that's reason enough to stay away. In principle, I don't mind the concept of static ads in games where they make sense- ie: unobstrusive billboards in a racing game or around the inside of an arena in a sports game.... But what really irritates me is the fact that, obviously, the publisher is raking in money by putting ads into a game that I'm paying to play.

Do these ads make the games cheaper/free for me to buy? Hell no. Do these ads make a $50 game play like a $60 one? Nope. And I'm just talking about "static" in-game ads... I think that "streaming" in-game ads just goes beyond the pale.

**Ares** · 10-30-2006, 00:41

Originally Posted by Fragony

http://www.shacknews.com/ja.zz?id=13049860

Basicly you are paying for spyware and ingame adds, no BF2142 for me. For you as well I hope, this goes too far.

Heh, go figure. What better way to make money than to put targeted advertisements in a popular multiplayer game.

Personally, I'm not a big fan of the battlefield series anyways, due to the fact that none of them have any real single player component and are purely multiplayer.

Let's just hope that this will not be a growing trend for all other publishers. Not to mention, that the ads in this pic look so out of place and poorly integrated. It hurts my eyes. lol

**Mongoose** · 10-30-2006, 01:02

Good lord... is it really as bad as it is in that pic?

**Husar** · 10-30-2006, 02:06

**Ares** · 10-30-2006, 03:18

I'm pretty sure that's photoshoped.

Anyways, here's a clip about this from G4TV:

http://www.g4tv.com/pile_player.aspx?video_key=13498

**Kraxis** · 11-03-2006, 04:57

I play it, and have managed to reach Seargeant Major Gold (should be more if it hadn't been for the lousy statlogging).

Let me tell you something, I have noticed nothing in the way of ads on the billboards. I simply haven't noticed it. Either it isn't there, or the colours are pretty well downplayed so that I'm not drawn to them. So nobody should fear the immersion at least.

And as many people have already said, it doesn't log what you do otherwise outside the game. I call it overreaction.
However if any company deserves the response it is EA. It is easily believeable that EA could do the screenshot Fragony presented...

However I didn't really know these things when I got it, and only noticed it when peolpe began talking about it alot. But as mentioned I have noticed nothing... NOTHING!