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!
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.
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
Hopefully they don’t license this patent out so it’s really easy to avoid
I was just thinking about that. I can’t imagine Microsoft licencing it cheaply, so I would think other companies would be losing money over this.
If anything, Microsoft made us a favour. (As long as they won’t continue their journey becoming Disney of gaming, I guess sigh)
So anyway, archery is cheap, fun, and there are no ads.
Practice your archery on ads
nah chupacabruuuh, I have my target set up in the woods away from the bullshit. Or at the virtually-unused public archery range. There are ads there, and they’re ads for businesses that actually paid to build the thing, which is different from ad revenue for the sake of ad revenue TO MAXIMIZE PROFITS. Brody I’m so fuckin tired.
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. 👾🎮
That’s So Microsoft!™
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.
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
Microsoft patents technique for me not buying another game from them ever
Fuck yeah, this is going to save some serious time. Will cut down the non video game ad watching time I need to do by a lot probably.
Good call on their part. Wouldn’t want anyone to steal their dog shit idea.
