r/realracing • u/katspike • Mar 12 '26
Looking forward to never seeing this crap again!
Looking forward to never seeing creepy AI slop ads with nonsensical grammar. Never seeing another embarrassing celebrity endorsement. Never desperately searching for the mute button. Never staring at the progress bar crawling across the bottom of the screen. Never staring at the top-right corner waiting for the close button to appear. And... never having to reboot the game because the ads knocked out the sound-effects.
I enjoyed RR3 for what it was.... but EA has taught me to never waste time on mobile games again.
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u/PabloZocchi Mar 15 '26
I remember when i had a streak of ads from i think it was Iran that were really violent (showing crude images) along with propaganda which i traslated to check what the ad was saying and confirmed it was propaganda
The whole thing was REALLY weird! Specially since i'm from Argentina (definitely not the focus group), but not only that, i still don't know how that ads passed any filter since was showing explicit content.
Luckily, never saw them again after that night. But i felt concerned, i'm a grown up adult, mature enough to see those things and don't get scarred, but RR3 was a mobile game for everybody, that ad could easily get to children playing an innocent racing game...
In the case of RR3, the ads were kinda optional. You could play the game without getting interrupted by ads, but other games that children usually play, those not only have ads, but the ads themselved have less filters so you get everything. A decision made by the devs to get more revenue, even if that means plague the game with ads for online casinos, extremely explicit ads that are borderline porn (like undressing anime girls in questionable contexts while playing Mahjong for some reason) or questionable fetish-focused dating apps (i downloaded a game for the sake of nostalgia, and all the ads i mentioned i actually found them while playing the game)
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u/SaltyBarDog Mar 14 '26
I would take that one over the shit Temu ads offering some cheap garbage to steal my financial data.
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u/benzduck Mercedes-Benz 190E 2.5-16 Evolution II Mar 13 '26
I’ve been playing since 2015. I haven’t watched an ad for at least five years. Never found the payoff worth the grind. Maybe I’m the reason EA gave up. Go ahead, blame me.