I wouldn't call it dog water - it's far from my genre of game, but different strokes for different folks. My frustration comes from releasing a new game every year and charging full price when they could easily just patch in new squads and the like on the game that I already have. BUT if I pay full price for a game, especially these days when it is 50/60 GBP, going up to 70/80 GBP for a deluxe version, the idea of adverts being injected into my experience stinks.

A simple Google search of 'secure boot enters boot menu after install' gives answers. Be sure you Windows 11 hard drive is formatted in GPT. If the Widows partition is MBR in Computer Management, it needs to be converted. Disable CSM, Secure boot is not compatible with CSM.

The sheep will still buy the crap though! Gamers are too fickle. If they didn't bother buying this dog water then they wouldn't likely do this

I don't understand why people keep insisting on Chrome? Why is it so damn hard to just switch to Firefox? Or if you really can't let go Chromium, there's Vivaldi or Brave, alternatively even Opera. They all have built-in adblock that doesn't give a s**t about Google's rules. But ultimately, just go with Firefox. I never have any issues with webpages and with those that I do are usually broken because of my extensive ad and trackers blocking and not because Firefox in itself wouldn't work with those pages. And even those are super rare.

Was it EA that tried this before? Something about the sports games and their banners being constantly updated in the game? And didn't we balk at that the first time round? Ah well, keep pushing until your tunnel collapses I guess.