No more advertising!

[Pixelmancer]

The Yo-Kai Watch event is absolutely disgusting. Come on Yoshi-P, do you really want to be the new Dorito Pope that bad?

[Critical-Limit]

Dorito samurai armor yes please

[MilesSaintboroguh]

Welcome to 2016 gaming. Enjoy your stay!

[Kallera]

I don't know what a dorito pope is, but I would rather the devs not turn into them via shameless fates, then turning around and saying "we lack the time/resources!" when legit concerns are brought up.

Cause people are going to look at this event, point at it and say "This is what you were doing! You were 'too busy' making fluff!"

[DragonFlyy]

Oh look, another thread. Why not just post in the same thread as everyone else? Not like they are going to cancel it since it started already.

[Warlyx]

I don't know what a dorito pope is, but I would rather the devs not turn into them via shameless fates, then turning around and saying "we lack the time/resources!" when legit concerns are brought up.

Cause people are going to look at this event, point at it and say "This is what you were doing! You were 'too busy' making fluff!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rbU0mzoMyw





it was a huge meme back then :P

[Theodric]

Well, FFXV has this:



(The American Express sign for those who can't see it) so it seems like Square Enix aren't going to shy away from real world product placement and advertisements in their games these days. There isn't much to be done about it either because any criticism will just bring out the whole 'it's just a bit of fun, just ignore it' crowd from people.

So long as the game as a whole remains fun I'll continue playing of course but I do have some concerns about this sort of thing becoming more common. They've already started making the Hildibrand type antics more and more frequent as part of world events so I hope they don't end up leaking into the MSQ's as well.

[Pixelmancer]

I don't know what a dorito pope is

It's a meme involving Geoff Keighley wearing a Dorito on his head like a pope hat. It was inspired by one of history's most cringe inducing "interviews" wherein questions were asked such as (paraphrasing) "If you were trapped on a desert island and could only bring one food, would it be Mountain Dew or Doritos?" The interview was ostensibly about a game, but Geoff was surrounded by giant ads and stacks of Mountain Dew and Doritos.



http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/dorito-pope

[Pixelmancer]

Well, FFXV has this:



(The American Express sign for those who can't see it) so it seems like Square Enix aren't going to shy away from real world product placement and advertisements in their games these days. There isn't much to be done about it either because any criticism will just bring out the whole 'it's just a bit of fun, just ignore it' crowd from people.

So long as the game as a whole remains fun I'll continue playing of course but I do have some concerns about this sort of thing becoming more common. They've already started making the Hildibrand type antics more and more frequent as part of world events so I hope they don't end up leaking into the MSQ's as well.

That's completely different in my opinion. It's in a world that actually has credit cards first of all. And aside from that it's just background scenery. It's not advertising masquerading as content.

[Zigabar]

That's completely different in my opinion. It's in a world that actually has credit cards first of all. And aside from that it's just background scenery. It's not advertising masquerading as content.

Your title and argument is "No more advertising!" This isn't different. It's SE blatantly advertising another product within their games.