The New York Times reports that BP worked with Electronics Arts programmers to design the game's underlying power and pollution models, and that in the game, "relatively clean systems like wind farms, natural gas plants and solar farms are branded with the BP logo, while the dirty options like coal are not." In return, BP paid Electronic Arts an undisclosed amount of cash.
This is flat-out wrong. When someone buys a game, they expect entertainment, and in the case of SimCity, intellectual stimulation and even some education. They don't expect subliminal influence from a corporation looking to push a specific agenda.
There's nothing wrong with programmers wanting to build the most accurate model for the trade-offs between electricity generation and pollution. So it's a good idea to go to many sources for the information, including alternate energy advocates and conservation experts as well as oil companies. But to allow an energy company this kind of access and control to an underlying model is the wrong way to go.
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Sure buddy... You're trying to tell me it has a deeper story than goat 🐐 simulator 4000?!?!?. I wanna give bg3 a shot but my brain is burnt out on long games
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This is just par for the course for them.
Since when is taking money (Legally) to endorse a product (again, completely legal) a bad thing?
In game ads are the wave of the future. Get over it. And don't complain because BP is taking an initiative.
this is like the Devil doing a deal with Satan.
WHO CARES!!!
Wow, using EA and soul in one sentence is kinda like heresy. EA never HAD a soul to begin with, its a huge corporate software monster that produces yearly crap games on a regular basis.