24 hours and gone..

Sony Scraps WipeOut HD Loading Ad

By Luke Plunkett (Edit, to draft, un-top, Slurp)

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The people have spoken. Spoken angrily. And Sony have listened, removing the worst of the in-game advertising from WipeOut HD only 24 hours after it was first officially announced.

"The ad has been removed from WipEout HD", a Sony rep told Eurogamer, "and we are investigating the situation to ensure that any in-game advertising does not affect gameplay".

Note this doesn't mean all advertising in the game has been removed; only the ad that was causing the annoying, increased load times.

Sony removes naughty WipEout advert [Eurogamer]

If this is gonna be happing more ill be unpluggin my ps3 when playing games. im not paying for a game to have the expereience and immersion ruined by advertisements to earn even more money for the company i already payed to be able to play the game. If the game is free, ingame ads are fine.. otherwise, they are not.

Wait... it increeased load times???

If it didn't I would have no problems with it.