And it’s this kind of shit that has ruined my love for tech. It’s all soulless dystopian slop they want you paying for monthly for the rest of your life. Fuck all these techno dweebs. It’s a shame all the normies will go along with this…
That’s why you ditch consoles, get a PC and buy only from stores that don’t do this rubbish.
Go along? They’ll be zealots demanding everyone get on board, just like heavily exploited console players are today.
Rent-seeking is definitely a sign of a financially-healthy company. Yup. No red flags there.
Microsoft has reinvented the arcade, except this time you buy the game first and then feed the machine quarters to play it. Next up: a premium tier that lets you pause without the meter running. At this rate, Xbox’s most profitable game will be watching customers try to escape the billing screen.
Next up: You get a free hour if you watch this AI slop ad. And since we’ve now required eye tracking to be enabled, if you look away from the ad for even a moment, then pay up.
DRINK VERIFICATION CAN
When the joke greentext becomes the torment nexus…
They had to feed the AI something to give the CEO ideas and all the reputable sites cost money so, really, it’s our own fault.
They played too much Roller Coaster Tycoon where they charged an admission fee for the park and then for every single ride too.
Once again, I pray for the time when China floods the market with GPUs, RAM, and storage to the point where all these technocapitalists get fucked.
Fuck renting shit.
If they did that, the technocapitalists would just make Chinese hardware illegal.
If Americans cannot get their treats and the bread and Circus stops, then they will resort to other means of expressing dissent.
The USA is highly individualistic and materialistic. If they can’t get their treats, then stochastic crime will take place (not that I’m against that, fuck capital).
I totally agree, which is another reason we should not expect China to save us. Their ideal world is one where Americans finally take power from the capitalist class.
My ideal world is that but we immediately also start to undermine the Chinese as well through decentralized production and logistics so good it makes over seas shipping too expensive. Mind you I want that for the entire world, you cannot fathom the arousal I feel at the idea of a Trans-Berringia trains bridge to connect the logistics of the old and new world, also the Trans-African rail should be completed to such an extent that goods in the Congo are as cheap as goods in LA.
“Would?” They’re already doing that.
So much for free markets, eh? More like, we’ll invade or sanction whoever to have freedom in their markets, but the instant our markets can’t compete, all of a sudden regulation is good.
Microsoft wants to never sell another product to me again? Fine
Stopped buying their garbage years ago.
that is correct.
they don’t want to sell.
they want to rent.
this is just another step down that path.
Xbox Developers: Hell yeah! Playstation is shooting themselves in the foot. All we have to do is sit back and we’ll kill it.
Xbox Business : or… hold my beer.
They can want it as much as they like, they can fuck off.
Jesus. I’m like all in on indie studios and old games. I don’t need this bullshit in my life. It’s already too much if a headache to comprehend what’s possibly worth it or not when you pay by the month or the hour to try and figure out budgets and so on. Cancel it all, play the old shit and pirate the rest.
Same
Back in my day it was called an arcade video game.
Yeah, back in my day the games came on a cassette tape. Sometimes the tapes got tangled up or broke, but when you bought it, you owned it.
Oh, and you’d get those magazines with pages of code for a game - you’d spend a day typing it in and never be able to figure out the tiny error you’d made.
Actually, games are so much better these days. It’s just unfortunate that capitalism.
Except you didn’t have to buy your own arcade machine before you started shoveling quarters into it.
Get absolutely fucked.
Wow, I almost reflexively downvoted this post just because I hate it so much
Computers could have been so cool, instead they’re all just becoming shitty slot machines.
Fuck everything about that. Fuck that to hell and back again not a hobbits tale.
Classic
Fuck Microsoft
