Project CARS 3 banners in DiRT Rally 2.0

[mesa 607]

Hey guys, you did drop down the atomic bomb of advertising! 😂

Now Project Cars 3 banners everywhere! 😫
Unrealistic, boring, disgusting. Stop this kind of campaigne NOW

Give us back REAL sponsor banners, Please

[Flens07 85]

Arcade-advertising in a sim?? 😂 I drove over 1100h in Pcars2  -only in the multiplayer - but there will be not minute in part 3 (for me) !

Edited August 29 by Flens07

[Tranzitive 309]

yeah 1 or 2 banners here and there i could understand but this is waaaayyy over the top.

it's so blatant and in-your-face.

actually makes me want to NOT by PC3 just because of how annoying the advertising is in DR2.0

[DoubleTen 136]

Please tell me how sponsor banners affect your gameplay experience...

Nobody complained about Geneva Car show was sponsored in spring, now they're pushing for a new title (which you can buy or not), that's normal.

Where is the "disgusting" side of this?

[UnderclassGDfan 460]

This is just dump straight in your face advertising.

BUY OUR NEW GAME, NOOOOOOOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I won't buy anything anymore from Codemasters, before this doesn't stop.
I'm not your cashcow, Codemasters, stop trying to force me.

Wouldn't have bought this game anyway, would have shown the wrong sign to the Publisher.
Project CARS 3 and DiRT 5 are trash in my view.
No respect to developers, who just try to jump on the FH4-bandwagon.

[Peter Mathen 61]

This is really annoying overall this yellow PC3 banners.

So the update 1.15 didn't bring us any improvements or bug fixes regarding the patch notes but lots of yellow banners.
Better would be to bring real sponsors in the game coupled with a new track or car.

[HoksuHoo 563]

Having some PC3 banners would be bad enough but that every single last banner is PC3 only is just gross. Annoying, intrusive, unimmersive, in-your-face advertising in a fully priced game. Please get rid of this garbage asap.

[KingOfCoins 286]

I am going to give them the benefit of the doubt and say it's a bug that the PC3 ads are everywhere

[danielofifi 451]

Actually I think Project Cars 3 is doing a disservice to Codemasters as a company. Many people on the internet claim that the game is bad because it was pushed to be an arcade racer by Codies. Which is not true, because as far as I know this decision was made before Slightly Mad Studios was acquired by Codemasters.

Maybe Codies should issue a public statement about it, so that people stop blaming them for what Ian Bell did to the Project Cars fans. 

What a mess...

Edited August 31 by danielofifi

[Jake Cushing 773]

I think the next DR2.0 update should include Ian Bell's grinning face looming over your windscreen before you start

[Protomorph 13]

Slightly mad now is from cm? Didnt know if thats the case sim or arcade I'll buy it. Was going to skip after the experience with the others, not for beeing arcade but they are a disaster of a game. But maybe now they'll have some quality

[Jake Cushing 773]

14 minutes ago, Protomorph said:

Slightly mad now is from cm? Didnt know if thats the case sim or arcade I'll buy it. Was going to skip after the experience with the others, not for beeing arcade but they are a disaster of a game. But maybe now they'll have some quality

Errrrmmmmm... you may want to research this decision 😂

[PJTierney 4,744]

Announcements like the one shown here, and temporary banners on-track, are all updated server-side, and are only viewable on Steam (I believe).

No patch needed for those and the banners will likely rotate out in the coming weeks.

 

[HoksuHoo 563]

51 minutes ago, PJTierney said:

Announcements like the one shown here, and the banners on-track, are all updated server-side, and are only viewable on Steam (I believe). No patch needed for those.

 

The 1.15 update had multiple things, all of which were detailed in the Patch Notes. I'll leave you find those for yourself in the usual place 🙂 

Good to know and all but you are missing something imprtant here. How about removing this excessive Project Cars 3 advertising from DR2.0? Since it can be updated server-side, it could be done like right now.

[PJTierney 4,744]

Just now, HoksuHoo said:

Good to know and all but you are missing something imprtant here. How about removing this excessive Project Cars 3 advertising from DR2.0? Since it can be updated server-side, it could be done like right now.

Not my call to make, sorry.

I'm sure it'll be replaced soon with whatever's planned next. Those banners change relatively often.

[HoksuHoo 563]

8 hours ago, PJTierney said:

Not my call to make, sorry.

I'm sure it'll be replaced soon with whatever's planned next. Those banners change relatively often.

I really didnt assume it's your call. Don't talk to me like I'm 5 years old.

"soon" is kind of subjective. Meanwhile we have to suffer this constant intrusive in-game advertising that makes DR2.0 look really silly with every banner being nothing but Project Cars 3. Not very nice

[AlleyViper 27]

This kind of publisher advertisements is immersion breaking, I've had dailys with black/yellow PC3 adverts from start to end. Having the usual mixed racing parts/equipment related adverts is perfectly fine, as it complements rally stage visuals, for as much as peripheral adds start to be a little off. Even the stay at home adverts that were mixed at some point were understandable (for as much as virtual crowds seemed oblivious to them), but having a sim relate to other games in the scenario so forcefully just devalues it. I hope CM takes some lesson from this.

Edited September 2 by AlleyViper

[PJTierney 4,744]

I can pass on the feedback at least, so thanks for that everyone.

[Dezenzerrick 3]

Seriously this is ridiculous. Just finished a stage in Wales (Bidno Moorland Reverse), and every single ad was for PC3. I expected the co-driver to tell me to buy PC3.

This also occurs in offline mode.

Granted, you can't play the career in offline mode so that's a moot point.

 

[ianism 1,313]

lmao if only people got this mad about ads on the internet, or on TV, or at the movies, or in bus stops, or on the billboards at the side of the highway, 

we could have a better world!

 

it's capitalism. deal with it.

[Dezenzerrick 3]

1 hour ago, ianism said:

lmao if only people got this mad about ads on the internet, or on TV, or at the movies, or in bus stops, or on the billboards at the side of the highway, 

we could have a better world!

 

it's capitalism. deal with it.

how exactly do you propose that we "deal with it"?

the players who dislike this have no options here, other than to voice frustrations in a forum.

Mind you, people do get this upset about advertising on the internet. Adblockers are prevalent. Pihole exists to combat advertising on other platforms (i.e devices with a more closed source approach). These exist because people are actually able to do something.

The ads here are baked into the game. Players who don't want them thrown in their faces constantly have no option but to complain online.

[PJTierney 4,744]

Hi all,

We've looked into this and while Project CARS 3 banners are intended to appear in the game for a little while, something was causing them to appear on every sponsor board slot instead of just a handful as originally planned.

This will be rectified 👍🏻

[RodgerDavies 927]

Thanks for those updates PJ, top job in finding out for us quickly

[chukonu 476]

I'd rather you guys kept it to immersive banners rather than actual advertising regardless. Why do I have to see the latest Codies game or some stupid twitter hashtag anyway? You shouldn't be bombarding your paying customers with ads and slogans. I want to forget the real world and race a rally car not drive through an advertising platform.

[TamiyaGuy 8]

It's cool guys, looks like the banners are back to their normal selves (at least, on the Australia Weekly) - thanks for the updates, PJ.

I kept my eyes on the road and still wound up careening into a fence every other stage 😆