Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5070188-20151202130010/@comment-452-20151220133523

Jeremy Corbyn wrote: Well that's unfortunate.

I was really looking forward to Just Cause 3, but now that I know that they have defaced a wiki with a huge banner ad, I can no longer pay for this game in good conscience.

Advertising is like rain. We need a moderate amount of both, but too much of either is a very bad thing.

SlyCooperFan1 wrote:

there's no reason the Club Penguin Wikia should be showing an ad for Just Cause 3. Absolutely no reason. The reason is $$$.

The weird thing is that someone at Just Cause's publisher thought that both advertising to Club Penguin fans, and annoying them by by making them scroll down were good ideas that was worth paying for.

edit: 452 revised:

The weird thing is that someone thought that both advertising to Club Penguin fans, and annoying them by by making them scroll down were good ideas that were worth paying for. Regardless of the details, at the end of the day, it is the responsibility of the company to ensure that the people they are paying to advertise the product are representing the brand in a way they are okay with.

It's not reasonable to absolve Square Enix's responsibility due to the involvement of a third party.

Square Enix has paid money to someone which has resulted in these ads being displayed, which means Square Enix tacitly approves of them, even if Mr. Enix himself has never seen the specific ads.