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VGAstudent
10 years ago

Why the MANDITORY game brand blast?

This has specifically been slotted for the Sims 4, because it's the latest EA game I've played recently, but it occurs to me that when you blast your advertisement for EA games through the speakers that there may be a bit of cruelty involved that you may not be aware of.

I'm not a parent, or a child, and I don't have a child, but if you just grounded your child for having not cleaned up their room, and then went into your own study to relax and get over being angry at your children, and behave yourself, giving yourself a time out so to speak, and you suddenly got badgered by your kid at your study door saying "WHY DO I HAVE TO CLEAN MY ROOM WHEN YOU'RE PLAYING GAMES?"

Ironically if you had kicked your children off their Xbox for being slobs, and doing nothing but playing games, then you've got an entire fight that could have been avoided by having skippable intro's after they've been played once.

Other games include:

Plants vx Zombies

Titan Fall

FIFA (anything)...

Sims (original to current)...

(etc)

I know you like us to know who we bought the games from, yes, I think we can remember, so could you please add a checkbox somewhere in the interface as an update to your games so we can have fewer arguements about issues that could have been muted before they started.

Thank you.

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2 Replies

  • THISaint's avatar
    THISaint
    10 years ago

    It's simply an intro for the game before it loads up. It's an industry standard to put publishers or developers intro before the game loads up.

  • Carbonic's avatar
    Carbonic
    Hero+
    10 years ago

    All games can be pretty easily identified by their sound, not just the intros, so the only logical solution will be turning off all the sound while playing as that will hide all audible clues like intro's, sims speaking Simlish, shooting etc.

    Alternatively, if a child says "WHY DO I HAVE TO CLEAN MY ROOM WHEN YOU'RE PLAYING GAMES?" you can say "Because I've already cleaned mine, I payed for the Xbox and it's my turn".

    As a last resort there's always a headset.

    All in all, is it really EA's job to help parents hide their gaming from their children - I don't think it is.

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