“This game, you’re not ready for.”
And the ad is absolutely correct! The poor snowflakes simply melt and complain on the forums or reddit.
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I guess they killed them recently? I was getting them all the time for EVE ever since I started posting again in 2020, until YouTube’s new ad policies made me say “enough” and take extreme anti-ad measures with Brave and scripts a few months ago. One day a few months ago I got a 44-minute unskippable ad for an 8-minute streamer VOD, and that was it for me.
I rarely get YouTube ads now, but occasionally a 15-30 second spot makes it through. One of them is this annoying, abstract EVE ad I’ve made fun of in a post recently.
Edit:
Just tried experimenting with stock Edge, and when watching a random game trailer, this was in the lower-left corner:
I just wait the 5 sec and hit skip.
If you skip, it simply queues up another ad to play sooner instead of at a set specific time in the video. So you’ll be hitting 5-second skips every 30 seconds instead of just watching one full-length ad every 4 minutes. On top of that, at some point you’ll get an unskippable ad if you “abuse” the skip function.
Just get scripts and make the problem go away entirely.
Stop watching porn then! 
JK
I mostly watch history and science & nature, so I don’t seem to run into those problems.
Where’s the “Off topic” police? Did they give up as well???
There are still grown men that don’t use an ad blocker? Fascinating.
Here’s a hint, MB. It’s free. I don’t know what excuse DC is going to make, but maybe the internet is not the place for you two. Or just keep what you are doing. All your info is long since scooped, collated, and sold to people that shouldn’t have it.
Next you’ll be telling me y’all are using Chrome. 
Mr Epeen 
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I’ve always used ad blockers. A few months ago, YouTube changed its ad policies with their new initiative to combat ad blocking, and the site essentially stopped working unless you allowed ads through for it. I did it because I thought “okay how bad can it be, I don’t mind if my favorite content creators get some extra revenue from me.” It turned out that it’s very bad, with about 2 minutes of ads for every 1 minute of content, and the ads themselves were very bad (lots of scams, sexual stuff, weird cults, etc.), and it was getting progressively worse with every week because Google was obviously trying to boil the frog with its new policy. So I got scripts, and now get maybe 2% of the ads I saw before that are able to sneak through (which only seem to be official 15-second spots).
For browsers, I use and recommend Brave and Hardened Firefox.
Then how would I know that EVE “Is not the game for me?” 
As someone who used to make websites, I like to see what the latest shtick is. Some of the ads are actually funny and I found a sense of humor sells things people don’t even want. One born every min, etc.
A sense of humor… You should try that more often. 
One of the ads I got during that short-lived experimentation period was just a 4-minute black screen with an artificial woman’s voice talking about my “small john” and how it made “my woman” hate me, how it was responsible for so many of my life’s problems, etc. Thirty seconds of it was just the voice going through a list of all the people “my woman” cheated on me with, like “…the gardener, the UPS delivery driver, work supervisor, grocery store cashier…” Literally just a list. I think the “product” was a link to a website to transform my “small john” into a “big john” (yes the word used was literally “john” and not the common “johnson”). That’s with incognito browsing, all tracking turned off, etc.
There were also many ads that were straight-up porn. Lots of Reddit posts of people complaining about this starting about 4 months ago. YouTube’s completely hijacked now.
I don’t get why I’m not having the same problem? Paramount is a different story. For a couple of $ more, I should. But then again, I only watch 1 show on that.
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Some browsers (like Brave) have very good innate ad-blocking. I don’t know what you’re using, but that might be why. Google is now at war with ad blockers, so it’s a constant battle between them rolling out changes that break YouTube for people with ad blockers, and browser and add-on developers rolling out changes that counter them.
Like I said a bit ago, I just tried testing this with stock Edge, and it was instantly like an 8-minute ad trying to sell me a bomb shelter for the impending nuclear war with Russia.
Jeez? Now I feel really bad. Crossing swords in the forum/game is one thing. I never wish people to suffer in rl.
Still want to know why the difference?
Edit; I’m US and using comcast. (comcrap)
Who is hated more in the US? The New England Pats or Comcast? 
I have been using Adblock plus for years and it worked flawlessly until about 2 months ago when YouTube stopped loading videos unless I disabled it.
I tried watching YouTube without it and was barraged with endless mobile game ads, at least they were always skippable, there were also plenty of political ads that were never skippable.
I ultimately decided it wasn’t worth it and quit watching YouTube for a couple of months, instead I renewed my Netflix sub. I will never give Google any money.
A few weeks back I heard that uBlock Origin was successfully blocking ads on YouTube and still allowing videos to play so I got it for Firefox and have been able to watch YouTube again completely ad free.
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Plus Adblock plus it has a hidden white list.
I switched to Adblocker Ultimate a while back. When YT has one it’s episodes and tries to shut down blockers, it’s at most half a day before things are back to normal with AU. These guys are top coders.
Mr Epeen
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The forum is great. It just needs a character limit on each post and more users, which will come in that case 
Source: Character limit - #7 by Dchill
Ublock does the same thing, just select to update and YT works again. There’s even a script to avoid the purposefully slowing down by YT. I never stopped using blockers for YT though, if it threw a hissy fit saying I was blockled I simply used Brave for a day (with added security as well) and then a day later FF worked fine again.
They’re working on quietly lobbying for ad-blocking to become illegal, so things might get very interesting in the future.
Anyway, the point is that CCP advertises, a lot, on various platforms where the “casuals” are. They started doing it around 2013-2014. Logic dictates that many of the new players they get are also the type of people who see ads, which is telling. These aren’t going to be the terminally-online tech geeks and hardcore gamers with water-cooled PCs; they’re going to be middle-aged and older, usually employed parents or even retirees. The kind of people who really do watch YouTube videos with ads, or play Subway Surfers on their bus ride to work.
Nothing against those people, but this isn’t really their environment, and neither are game forums in general. You can’t expect these people to show up and start posting en masse.
The in-game reward incentive program will be more of a reminder to check out the forum, with a character limit on each post people wont burn out as fast. They will come and read and participate every day and eventually it will just grow on its own. And here is an idea… Instead of pivoting to an FPS why not pivot into social media. That social media market is more disrupted than ever. I think people are hungry for something fresh in this department.
That’s a very good point actually. It’s the wrong demographic.