Really EA, what is the deal with these Snickers ads? Am I really going to have to see "Prepare for CHOMP-ETITION" at the start of every game, "SATISFYING" on the team selection screen, and "CHEWS Wisely" at every coin toss? I can live with things like the Pontiac player of the game or the Old Spice High Endurance red zone stats, but this seems like it has crossed a line. What do you guys think?

Hey hey hey, Snickers are delicious.

Man... I need to get me a Snickers.

well sports in real life are surrounded by ads, so in a way its almost better. But if you saw those ads in a game like gears or left 4 dead, that would be bullshit.

At a point you probably stop noticing it, though it does feel like its going a bit too far. At least in a game like Madden or Fifa you could pass it off as "realistic" and get on with the game but if you were playing Oblivion and you had an elven claymore and a Dr Pepper Dagger? Or one of the quests asked you to go rescue a womans daughter whos held in the town of Pontiac (though thats a real town I think it dosent fit into a fantasy context).

If there reasoning is "we cant afford to keep making big games without some sort of advertising to subsidise it" then stop making these big games honestly. Make the games you can afford from the sales of the last game/projected sales of the current one. Isnt that hows its worked for years? At this point it feels like they are making games "bigger" just for the sake of money and advertising, id rather play a smaller game that feels more "real" and dosent bombard me with advertising.

It's EA, did you really expect them to loose even one cent in exchange for giving you a better gaming experience?

This blog has made me want to eat a snickers, but anyway its still not as bad as what the NBA and NHL are proposing to do in real life by putting ad space on teams' jerseys.  I know gotta hit the nearest Seven Eleven and get me a snickers.

Snickers are the opposite of tasty, milky ways, now they are good.

But i have memorized that song from one of their commercials "Happy peanuts soar, over chocolate covered mountain tops, and waterfalls of caramel...." and the commercial where the king goes, "when i used to feast like this,i would have a troupe of misterals to serenade me" and they all start singing prince leeds or whatever is burned into my memory, those snicker ad people are amazing.

Snickers are the fucking shit!

I hope Patrick Chewing makes an appearance in NBA Live 10

" It's EA, did you really expect them to loose even one cent in exchange for giving you a better gaming experience? "

Mmm... Snickers.

I fail to see how this affects the gameplay. With that being said- who cares?

And you do realize that they had such ad's at football games, basketball games and baseball games right?

I agree with the OP.  I don't have a problem with some ingame advertising if it's built into the scenery, but these snickers things are all over the game interface.  In real life the players don't have to deal with snickers ads on the sports equipment itself, imagine how pathetic that would make the sport look.  That's what they've done to this game.

I agree, Snicers is delicious...

Sure could go for a Snickers right about now.

" Snickers are the opposite of tasty, milky ways, now they are good. But i have memorized that song from one of their commercials "Happy peanuts soar, over chocolate covered mountain tops, and waterfalls of caramel...." and the commercial where the king goes, "when i used to feast like this,i would have a troupe of misterals to serenade me" and they all start singing prince leeds or whatever is burned into my memory, those snicker ad people are amazing. "

I dislike snickers (as I dislike peanuts in my candy), so naturally I'm offended by these ads. 
 
Milky Way I wouldn't mind...

There is only one awesome game that Snickers should appear in.

LIke most said, it's the same in real broadcasts, and I'm mostly numb to ads of that nature. 

I think these ads have worked:  I want a Snickers bar right now.

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In NBA Live 10 the players should get dunked on by Patrick Chewing when they're warming up.
 
Edit: damn, beaten to it.

Doesn't EA get paid to put advertising in the game? If that's the case shouldn't the game cost a little less or have a better online service since they're shoving so much advertising down our throats? That's what's irritating me, with all the advertisements in the game all we get is roster updates here and there.

" Hey hey hey, Snickers are delicious. "

I don't love snickers.
 
Call me crazy, but I prefer Bounty.

Coffee Crisp pwnes Snickers.

" Really EA, what is the deal with these Snickers ads? Am I really going to have to see "Prepare for CHOMP-ETITION" at the start of every game, "SATISFYING" on the team selection screen, and "CHEWS Wisely" at every coin toss? I can live with things like the Pontiac player of the game or the Old Spice High Endurance red zone stats, but this seems like it has crossed a line. What do you guys think? "

Half way through this thread I blacked out and now I really want a Snickers bar.

Sorry, this kind of ad is not like you see in real life games, it's more like the ads in free iPhone games, which is tolerable when it's *free*. If you don't care, that's fine, but it undeniably has crossed a line. I downloaded the demo from PSN, and thank god I did because now I know I wouldn't be able to enjoy this game. My only fear now is that I am going to inadvertently buy a game that has this kind of b.s. that disrupts my immersion in the game and makes me feel taken advantage of. This is a new kind of ad in a *paid* game, and needs a term to identify it. Maybe "non-incidental", since Wikipedia identifies ads that add to the realism of a fame "incidental".

i dont care about the snickers stuff or anything on menus or stat screens, but the ads on the bottom right (above the score line) are ridiculous.  I should not have to see an ad for AXE or something else on the screen while I am playing the game.  

"well sports in real life are surrounded by ads, so in a way its almost better. But if you saw those ads in a game like gears or left 4 dead, that would be bullshit. "

I'm kind of surprised at the amount of people that are just straight up cool with this... I don't play sports games so what ever, it doesn't affect me. Seriously though, that has to be annoying, and at what advantage are the adverts coming to us? do we pay less for the game? no. This is NOT the real world, its a video game, something people play to get away from real life. When I am getting lost in a video game the last thing I want to see is "HEY BITCH EAT A FUCKING SNICKERS RIGHT NAO!"

The real conundrum is why are you playing Madden 10?

" The real conundrum is why are you playing Madden 10? "