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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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[–] PunchingWood@lemmy.world 115 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (19 children)

What an absolutely terrible fucking idea.

Can't wait for major story spoilers to show up full-screen on the background of the homescreen because clickbaiters on YouTube are fucking assholes.

Also really don't need product placement on the home, I am on my PS5 to play games, not to fucking buy stuff. It's a console, not a goddamn webshop.

This really needs an option to get disabled.

Edit: Reading again it just seems to get worse. Looking at the alternative game ads, offers and promotions when selecting a game seems borderline against consumer laws, at least in EU. Especially kids could be easily targeted and triggered by this. Also most of these examples make it look like you're starting up an entirely different game, it's just such a awful update all together. No self-respecting interface designer would come up with this, it's 100% corporate predatory marketing cunts that came up with this kind of stuff.

[–] the_post_of_tom_joad@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (8 children)

I heard from another lemmy user that his new Xbox required him to click an ad to finish booting up. So with a grain of salt MS' consoles are even worse. If this continues and i don't see why it won't, PC gaming gonna be the only viable one soon. Thank God steamdeck and valve Linux collab are now a thing

[–] lohky@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (5 children)

My piece of shit, $1800 Vizio TV does that. I can't even default it to a specific input without clicking through an ad.

[–] YourShadowDani@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Sounds like a job for a rasberry pi with pihole installed: https://pi-hole.net/

[–] lohky@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

I've really wanted to start tinkering with rasberry pi, so maybe that'll be a fun first project!

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