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[cormack12]

Spoiler: Original Tweet

Ad in question

 

[The Cartographer]

*to be reintegrated in 2K22

 

[Yoboman]

Could they be more full of shit? That doesn't accidentally slip in

 

[dDoc]

People need to vote with their wallets in order to stop these shitty practices. Unfortunately the majority seem to not care and 2K sports games sell well. Shame.

 

[DonJorginho]

Not meant to be running but has been happening for like 3-4 games in a row? SUREEEEEE.

 

[Skifi28]

Accidentally programming stuff in? That's new.

 

[Amaranty]

Pathetic. That's all I can say.

 

[The Scrivener]

Ah, the old Jack Dorsey approach, say it was an error and do fuck all about it.

Test the waters, what they will or will not tolerate. Desperate to control, all and everything. Unable to forgive...

 

[Soodanim]

Don't you just fucking hate it when you're programming and you accidentally insert adverts that you accidentally accepted money for in your game?

 

[The Cockatrice]

Haha sorry guys we accidentally added microtransactions and lootboxes in the game. We'll remove it soon!

 

[Rossco EZ]

not meant to run

 

[xrnzaaas]

They're going to keep trying until more people will get used to it and stop complaining.

 

[MastaKiiLA]

*to be reintegrated in 2K22

It doesn't say that anywhere. Where are you getting that information from?

 

[Concern]

Only people to blame are the morons who keep supporting their games

 

[The Cartographer]

It doesn't say that anywhere. Where are you getting that information from?

What is sarcasm?

 

[reptilex]

I say milk and abuse of these dumb couch potato degenerate who buy a new NBA2K every year, in a better functioning world these stupid couch potato wouldn't have that money to spare and be scammed off.

 

[BaneIsPain]

This trial run guys. See you next year.

 

[Florin4k4]

You can’t make this stuff up

 

[Spaceman292]

Could they be more full of shit? That doesn't accidentally slip in

Put it in. If people scream about it too much then press the button that removes it and pretend the whole thing was an accident.

 

[Mephisto40]

If it wasn't meant to be integrated as part of the pre game loading screen why was the loading screen changed to display the percentage time left of the add rather than percentage of game data loaded?

They would have had to reprogram the loading screen for it to do that

 

[RJMacready73]

tbf the idiots who buy this shit from my experience all tend to talk, sleep and breathe sports... most are a complete and utter fucking bore to talk to so tbf to them these unskippable adverts probably dont even phase them or are actually noticed becuase when they arent playing sports theyre watching it on the telly with adverts plastered all over them..

 

[regawdless]

We are sorry for getting called out on it. It was NOT on purpose. That dev guy slipped and deleted the skip ad function.

Please keep buying our stuff.

 

[BlackTron]

Holy hell I remember when 2K sports games were the wise man's answer to EA.

It's like the dystopian gaming future we could have made stories about in 2000.

 

[nush]

We know where the line is and we went passed it to see if players would accept it or not complain too much. Unintentional my ass.

 

[iJudged]

sleazy and greedy, got caught

 

[ExpandKong]

OOPS

A ACCIDENT

 

[ComputerBlue]

I didn't mean to post this message in this thread.

 

[Low Moral Fibre]

Oops didn't mean to has held up in court before.

 

[Krappadizzle]

The classic, "we got caught so therefore we are now sorry" excuse.

 

[Orpheum]

stop buying this trash every year

 

[FunkMiller]

All of you who buy these games: do you have so little self respect that you're going to continue to give money to people who have this little respect for you?

Just wondering...

 

[scoobidoo112]

Their next game should launch with a 120 dollar price tag.

Starting the game will initiate an hour-long ad, ending on a slot machine screen where you can spend money to load the next hour-long ad, with a 0.3% chance of getting a 640x480 pop up window that allows you to play the game for about five minutes, while the ad is playing in the background.

If the target audience doesn't care and continues to support this crap, I say push it as far as you can. That way, at least the rest of us have something to laugh at.

 

[Wizz-Art]

This will be fixed in future episodes

They can't even say it will be fixed in future updates...

 

[ipukespiders]

 

[AJUMP23]

Let me just send out a tweet saying we accidently wrote some code to force players to watch an ad. Problem solved.

 

[IDKFA]

Sure.

 

[Maybe It's Medicine?]

Gotta keep testing the waters. Eventually they will get the right amount in and their player bases won't backlash. Just got to keep tinkering with the formula.