I played Alan Wake (the first one) recently for the first time and was surprised to see Verizon billboards, Energizer batteries/flashlights and Lincoln cars in the game.
I personally didn’t mind it and treated it as an Easter egg opposed to an actual ad, if it were a pop-up or something that halted me in my place I would be annoyed sure but minor things like that kinda give it a bit of realism.
Note; I did want to link the Alan Wake x Energizer/Verizon/Lincoln collab here but then I got this pop-up on the first site that came up -
Pop-ups like this make me not want to use your product or service.
Edit; Kotaku didn’t care for my ad blocker so I’ll link them instead of fandom -
It’s very interesting that remakes and remasters seem to be stripping out the ads / in-game branding because the licensing expired or didn’t extend to the remake of the same game. For example Death Stranding remake is also removing the Monster cans and replacing them with generic energy liquid. I’m not sure what that means exactly, but it is a thing.
I played Alan Wake (the first one) recently for the first time and was surprised to see Verizon billboards, Energizer batteries/flashlights and Lincoln cars in the game.
I personally didn’t mind it and treated it as an Easter egg opposed to an actual ad, if it were a pop-up or something that halted me in my place I would be annoyed sure but minor things like that kinda give it a bit of realism.
Note; I did want to link the Alan Wake x Energizer/Verizon/Lincoln collab here but then I got this pop-up on the first site that came up -
Pop-ups like this make me not want to use your product or service.
Edit; Kotaku didn’t care for my ad blocker so I’ll link them instead of fandom -
https://kotaku.com/alan-wake-remastered-is-ditching-the-energizer-batterie-1847658945
It’s very interesting that remakes and remasters seem to be stripping out the ads / in-game branding because the licensing expired or didn’t extend to the remake of the same game. For example Death Stranding remake is also removing the Monster cans and replacing them with generic energy liquid. I’m not sure what that means exactly, but it is a thing.
They surely won’t let Monster get free ads, what are they? A charity? Either pay up or your cans get deleted!
Drinkus deletus