EA to my knowledge just has shitty business practices. Ubisoft at a minimum had a culture of sexual harrassers, possibly assaulters. Blizzard certainly had rapists. Ubisoft also with the pioneering always online DRM for single player games getting back to the games portion of their evils

Bethesda still manages to stay in the "honorable mention" category.

games like diablo4(expansions) is what keeps people coming back to blizzard.

Chex Quest was legitimately good, but mostly because it was just a Doom mod

I think legos are in their own genre no matter what. That’s like advertising a game franchise.

Those Xbox burger king games were legitimately fun....

I am genuinely surprised none of the freaks around here have mentioned the KFC dating sim yet.

Candystand.com games went crazy back in the early 2000's

The Dungeons and Dragons idle game has a champion that is composed of Nerds candy pieces. It's actually a fun character concept because you can switch the nerds around to different colors, each one with a different class that changes how their mechanics work. But it's just so weird seeing candy you can eat alongside Drizzt Do'urden that I never use them.

Sometimes I forget that the LEGO games are just really fancy ads.

That Nerf clone of Unreal Tournament was dope

The old Kellogg's game from mid 90's was really clunky, but it was great fun as a <10 year old not knowing any better!

That Xbox BK game, Domino’s Noid game, I think 7up had an othello clone.

*Pepsi Maaaaann!*

Those drink ad games were a fever dream.

Ventrue Princes gotta Ventrue Prince.

Free games with MTX and ads and shit are all the rage anyway

You now have 300 condoms in your inventory and an intriguing side mission with your fellow soldiers.

We can't know what's going to be the greatest of all time in the future, only what's the greatest of all time so far.

It does not. "Greatest of all time back in the day" does not imply it's still the greatest. By your logic the future is also a time. As we don't know it yet, nothing can ever be the greatest of all time, making the term meaningless.

I'm also wondering the same thing. There are tons of product placement in movies.

The easy ones to spot are the car ones, since they always seem to have the manufacturer logo visible.

Wayne's World even had a not-so-subtle clip about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lgLYGBbDNs

So we sort of did but not for the reasons you'd think. Not for the reasons I thought at least.

Specifically there used to be a time when there was ad placement in movies and tv literally all the time. But more often than not now a days this doesn't happen that way because companies that have trade marked logos or symbols don't want to allow their products to be used without getting paid a licensing fee and companies that would use this kind of product placement don't want to pay the licensing fee which is why in the late 80's and early 90's there was a rise in blurring logos and brand names in media. There's also the risk of certain licensing agreements not being legitimate for certain markets which can lead to blurring of the same type or it's newer counterpart which involves using stickers or off brand styling instead.

But also some other countries do ban it. China apparently instituted such a ban in 2011.

But anyway I got confused because around the same time there was a ban on certain products being allowed to advertise in movies and directly in tv shows (cigarettes/tabacco products, alcoholic beverage brands, guns etc). I was exhausted and wrong and that's on me.

NFS Underground 2 had in-game advertising for Cingular and Burger King.

NFS Carbon was absolutely plastered with T-mobile advertising.