I don't think we complained enough.

I agree with SR, they were not even interested in earning revenue from us. If they were, I would think that they'd have released a premium DLC that would remove the ads for the users who didn't want them. Very easy, very simple thing to do that would have earned both goodwill and money. Yet, they did not do this.

Who knows what they really wanted with these ads? They were added haphazardly and carelessly, without focus. I don't think they were even testing it on us, because then they would have wanted information from us. They would have asked us to reply to them directly, sent us surveys and asked us to put check marks in boxes and rate our satisfaction 1-5. Nope, not even close.

AFAIK, Studio Liverpool never even had its own website with any contact information to speak of. This studio and its assets were not cared for on the business and marketing side AT ALL, seemingly. This restructuring was not unforeseen. It's an incomprehensible marvel that there were creative passionate people there who were still able to create something great.

As I expected, they have not done anything to change the fact that these ads can be blocked through the simplest means by anyone and without violating the terms of agreement. They may not care even about that.