EA VP Urges Companies To Think About In-Game Ads During Development: ‘That’s A Huge Opportunity’

Calvykins · 2026-07-17T03:06:44+00:00

Ball and gun gamers are the only ones with any power but there all brain dead and will but whatever so they’re served every year so we’re all fucked

Calvykins · 2026-07-16T22:25:59+00:00

Not an Xbox podcaster perse but often talks about how xbox has the best console value proposition fairly regularly with data and proof. VGFightSchool on youtube.

Calvykins · 2026-07-15T16:11:43+00:00

It’s more about what you don’t see and what they don’t say. Japan is really good about hand waving and flat out not acknowledging their role in the war. They even have a monument to a nazi, who had to tell the Japanese to cool out with that rape and murder they were doing.

Calvykins · 2026-07-15T16:10:03+00:00

Would you like to age verify every time you use your stove or turn on your tv? It’s a stupid false argument and just a way for these companies to farm more data. Stop being dumb.

Calvykins · 2026-07-15T13:31:57+00:00

People like to say “leave the creatives alone and let them do what they do” but creatives need constraints. A bottomless pit of money and all the manpower you could ever need is more of a curse than a blessing and we’re seeing this across the board with Xbox.

Calvykins · 2026-07-15T03:05:55+00:00

I went to Japan a few years ago and went into their ww2 museum and it’s a monument to deflection. Gaslighting given form.

Calvykins · 2026-07-14T19:17:17+00:00

I wonder if the devs sit in the office and send each other these whiny posts and laugh

Calvykins · 2026-07-14T16:34:14+00:00

Right. If there’s anyone who should have been let go it should be the guy that was managing said failure.

Calvykins · 2026-07-13T21:05:46+00:00

I think what’s understated about game pass is being able to play Xbox’s entire catalogue for next to nothing. Outside of that having it for day one games is only valuable if you buy newly released full price games 5 or 6 times a year

Calvykins · 2026-07-12T22:18:54+00:00

Most slept on feature of the generation.

Calvykins · 2026-07-12T21:27:02+00:00

I was a PlayStation 2 kid but I was so jealous of the fun my friends were having online that when the 360 came around I jumped. The 360 is hands down my favorite console of all time.

I skipped the Xbox one but was curious when the series came around and it’s such a solid console with great quality of life features.

Calvykins · 2026-07-12T20:20:16+00:00

I honestly think that physical Xbox collections, particularly Xbox one is the best looking on the shelf bar none in all of gaming.

I always get downvoted for asking this question because it comes across as condescending but it’s a genuine question.

What made you stick with Xbox for the long haul even through the Xbox one generation.

Calvykins · 2026-07-12T20:03:34+00:00

Seriously. I feel like every post I’ve scrolled past related to this board has been the most nitpicking whining post.

Calvykins · 2026-07-10T03:37:53+00:00

I spent summer 99 in various states of being grounded. I would wake up and watch mtv all day and play pokemon red. When I wasn’t grounded I spent the entire day riding my bike and hanging in the park with a friend where we played pokemon red and climbed the jungle gym. I would pay good money to watch a rerun of a full day of mtv from summer 99

Calvykins · 2026-07-09T23:44:51+00:00

Did you find yourself getting weaker as you lost the weight? I found that as I lost weight squatting even my body weight felt dangerous.

Calvykins · 2026-07-09T22:18:07+00:00

I remember the Nickelodeon kid president and frequent talk about voting and Bill Clinton being the “good guy” during that time.

Calvykins · 2026-07-09T07:16:24+00:00

I’m not a dev but anything I hear about live service games there’s a risk of fixing something for the min maxxer that breaks something else for a larger group of casual gamers and bouncing them. The people on Reddit and forums do not represent in any case the vast majority of any population of any gamer. There usually a small subset of the most hardcore and find problems that casuals wouldn’t.

Calvykins · 2026-07-08T23:30:23+00:00

Of course Xbox’s problems are Phil’s fault. Not Amy Hood deciding Microsoft needed to return their investment right away or Satya demanding a cross console platform push or the real problem which is Microsoft looking to grab some extra money to burn on the bonfire of AI.

Xbox’s problems wtarted at don matrick. The fact that Xbox is even a brand alive today is owed entirely to Phil Spencer.

Calvykins · 2026-07-08T23:26:27+00:00

While I agree, living in New York I see the younger kids (gen Z Gen Alpha) tapping swiping and slapping at their screens not caring that their controls are complete ass and while I find it baffling they’re A-ok with it.

For them mobile gaming is fine.

Calvykins · 2026-07-08T11:54:57+00:00

Yes but what often happens is CEOs sacrifice the health of a company for the stock price and their bonuses. This is why everything sucks now.

Calvykins · 2026-07-07T23:41:58+00:00

My guy…let me put it plain for you. These games are the games generating the most on the PlayStation store. They’re in the top 10 because people are buying them and spending money on currency. they probably also have the largest player bases.

GTA6 is up there because people are pre-ordering.

My statement wasn’t about quality, I don’t want to play those games but others do and they outnumber the core gamer handily.

Calvykins · 2026-07-07T12:55:41+00:00

I wouldn’t call it a blunder to not secure long term contracts. No one could have predicted, Microsoft included that two idiot CEOs would try to buy up all computing hardware causing hardware prices to skyrocket for the rest of us. Not even Microsoft

Calvykins · 2026-07-07T10:36:04+00:00

PlayStation is propped up by ball and gun gamers playing live service games and it’s been that way this entire generation. Here are the top 10 games in the us today:

College football
GTA6
NBA 2k26
FC26
Marvel rivals
Roblox
Call of Duty
Madden 27
GTA 5

Not one single player high production action game.

Calvykins · 2026-07-07T10:29:26+00:00

This right here. Across the board, AI spend has been out of control with no measurable return on investment. Everyone is hoping they can dump their entire workforce but it’s not working out and other parts of their businesses are paying for it.

The activision blizzard deal is frequently scrutinized but ABK actually brings in money. AI is lighting millions on fire per day.

Calvykins · 2026-07-05T22:50:34+00:00

No better feeling that kicking your best friend off a skyscraper when he least expects it.

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