Honestly i am all ok if real companies are involved with various advertisements in games. That is matching their industries & organizational objectives.
Agreed, sometimes good, tasteful ad placement can add to the experience instead of taking away. Sometimes it's awful too though, I remember my immersion was absolutely vaporizer by Coleman being featured prominently in FF15
It is! They make camping and outdoor supplies and they're everywhere around where I live. It was such a surreal experience booting up my fantasy game and seeing that brand haha
I remember playing Splinter Cell on the 360 (I thin it was blacklist or double agent) and then suddenly, on top of a skyscraper, you see this absolutely basic and uninteresting city skyline with a fucking Nivea (or some other deodorant brand) logo on top of a cardboard skyscraper in the background.
Tha was... weird
EDIT: found a screenshot, it wasn't as bad as I remembered. Still weird for 10 y.o. me