Microsoft keeps finding innovative ways to make owning its products feel like renting them. You buy the Xbox, buy the game, maybe pay for Game Pass, and Microsoft still patents a way to interrupt you with ads. At this rate, the final boss will be a 30 second unskippable commercial.
They fucked themselves when they went on their buying spree of studios. Their idea was literally that they would own every game studio, making a GamePass a necessity that they could charge whatever they wanted for.
Their quest inflated the price of every subsequent studio they acquired, leading them to take on so much debt that they had to shutter the studios they’d just purchased, and now they have to make a ton of money on every game–but that’s not how games work.
Just capitalism things…
The only winning move for the final boss is to put down the controller and go outside.
Love it!
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, would you be so kind and repeat after me: abandonware and indie games are the future!
Entertainment these days is only found in the shadows of society
Yes, that’s how plenty of 60s’ and 70s’ sci-fi stories were about finding gems in the dust, and much of XIX century gothic stuff.
That’s sarcasm. Each time is like no other, but also the grass is always greener 100 years ago, and it’s always somehow better and worse at the same time.
But then, of course, there are tendencies and periods which won’t be remembered kindly or won’t be remembered at all.
I have only one question about that title - why the hell would anyone play a game with ads? People play games to relax, to get some rest from society, or to have some personal time with their friends mowing down cockroach hordes or something like that defending their city-fortress.
Until competitors are able to develop and sell games without such ads, people will just play those.
and it’s always somehow better and worse at the same time.
Humanity is always on a meandering route between utopia and dystopia, never arriving at either.
why the hell would anyone play a game with ads?
It’s Microsoft. They made Embrace, Extend, Extinguish their way of life for decades. They can’t conceive competition. And they’re not really that interested anymore in the consumer market. They want to squeeze whatever they can from there before the market shrinks and aim their products more at the premium and business market who has all the money these days.
I can agree with the assessement on how the company is aiming to bleed dry the market and is aiming to take over the business market. But honest question: what are we to understand by premium?
But even the business market is fickle. The company I work at had a scare recently with a serious security breaching. Nothing was admitted but I suspect the vector of attack was the informal Whatsapp network used to run day to day communications and it’s AI. The installed Microsoft security solutions were as efficient as a collander. I can’t imagine what was leaked. That costs money.
Most companies these says aim for the top 10% of the income market, so rich families and businesses. The bottom 90% is losing purchasing power so not a priority these days. Sounds rational short term and is probably disastrous long term. It’s a great target for China to take over, so when AI pops and they want to return to the consumer market, it’s already taken.
They’re making their bed, they better lie in it when it’s time. Even if it’s on fire. And full of rusty nails.
Are we taking numbers on the AI craze bust already? I say in the next six months, to a year.
I just picked up this little gem, “The Necromancer’s Tale.” Its Indie it looks oldschool and it is plot heavy. Most important is that it is crafted with care.
Isn’t there some kind of group that patents awful ideas so nobody else can use them?
Damn, by patenting it they’re actually doing us all a huge favor.
Everyone will simply avoid microsoft games and no other gaming company can copy their stupid ideas.
Based
Guess I’ll just keep sailing the high seas. Someone let me know when businesses want to act with some semblance of good faith to their customers.
Hopefully they don’t license this patent out so it’s really easy to avoid
Places that advertisers have not yet turned into a vehicle for ads:
RadioTVMoviesThe InternetVideo Games- Classical Fine Art
- The Moon / Space
- Grave Markers/ Headstones
- Inside Eyelids
- Your Baby’s Smile
- Brain Implants
So anyway, archery is cheap, fun, and there are no ads.
We trully live in an Age of Technological Devolution.
And Environmental Devolution.
And Political Devolution.
And Economic Devolution.
But the richer have never before been this rich.
Just don’t play Microsoft games. They crippled or outright destroyed all their former good game studios anyway. So it’s not like they will be making great games you can’t live without anyway.
Move to Bazzite. https://bazzite.gg/
It’s not the OS doing it, it’s the game itself adding the ads to pause screens, loading screens, etc.
Ditch Windows anyway.
Honorable mention for Nobara Linux. 👾🎮
Just use an OS that does not do this.
Done. No ragerts
Steam banned having to watch an ad before being able to play a game last year
on an Xbox ?
What use is an Xbox nowadays? And who said that Microsoft will not use the same “feature” on Windows?
That’s So Microsoft!™
I’d patent my well-honed technique for not playing Microsoft games but I want to share it with the world, free of charge.
EA did this years ago
