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Forced Ads Need to Stop
Cordova, TN; August 14, in the year of our Lord 2015--Family
Friendly Gaming, the industry leader in covering the family
friendly video games is requesting a clean up in aisle video
games. Too many companies are forcing too many ads on gamers and
families. The Wii U Gamepad will flash blue and use up what
little battery power it has to try and get owners of the system
to see an advertisement. This happens on a nearly weekly basis
from Nintendo. It needs to stop, and stop right now. This kind
of invasion is offensive to many gamers, and many families. If
Nintendo wants to advertise to us, they need to pay us for our
time. Not take our money and then try to get us to spend even
more money on them thanks to their invasive and generally
despised advertisements.
Forza Horizon 2 does something even more insidious than the Wii
U. An advertisement banner comes up on the screen and partially
blocks the view of the screen. That is until the family member
goes into the advertisement and watches it. Going into the
advertisement and quickly backing out does not remove the
advertisement banner. This is horrible. Again families and
gamers are not being paid to be shown this Microsoft
advertisement. It is another example of video game companies and
their unpaid invasive advertisements. This also needs to stop.
Family Friendly Gaming has not been able to discover any opt-out
options of these invasive video game company advertisements.
An advertisement in a football game, basketball game, baseball
game, soccer game, or other sport is part of the stadium or
coliseum. After all that is exactly how that court or field
actually looks. That is one thing. Those advertisements are part
of the background and actually help fund the development of the
video game. The invasive advertisements from these companies is
something entirely different. The only way Family Friendly
Gaming found to get rid of them is to keep the systems
disconnected from the Internet. That way these companies can not
push down the invasive advertisements that they pay families and
gamers nothing for. All the while trying to brainwash all of us
out of more of our money. Don’t they have billions enough in the
bank? Haven’t they fleeced consumers enough with their greed?
God bless,
Paul Bury
Family Friendly Gaming