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Its relevance increases every year. Truly it was prophetic.
Sometimes I think due process should have its limits. When people suggest ideas that are so grossly enshittified, we should be able to beat them with sticks.
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Maybe Microsoft is patenting it so nobody will do this in the future. They have the best for the gamers in mind. /s
Wait, someone should make a gaming organization that just thinks of the most outlandish and ghoulish things to patent them so the big corpos can't.
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Additionally let's not have video game characters say any swear words or bad words like "kill" to make it more advertiser friendly.
Quest: "Unalive 10 cave troll's and get your reward from Dr. Pepper"
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I'm generally against software patents, but I kinda like that this was patented. Maybe the patent will prevent other companies from enshittifying their games.
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I always figured that this would be added for xbox within a year or two, but if they try for PC I really will go onto one of the linux wikis and start swapping immediately.
I'd suggest just setting aside some time on a weekend to just nuke windows and dive in. Something like cachy os is great for gaming, or bazzite if you'd like the system files indeleble like steam os.
I ended up wiping my last windows install a few months back and I don't miss it at all.
I have an older laptop that I was actually thinking about experimenting with first, just to give myself some confidence in figuring everything out.
I've been stalling on that though.
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Imagine coming up with this idea and presenting it to your superiors instead of being so disgusted with yourself that you immediately splatter your brains all over the ceiling.
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just want to say there are at least 40,000 video games at least freely available on the internet of every conceivable genre. Some rivaling in quality to any game being made by these greedy publishers. Why does ANYONE bother with any shit they make anymore I just cannot understand. There is more gameplay out there than any person could play through in a lifetime.
Right?! I keep finding well-reviewed indie games on Steam for free every single day. And that's just from playing around with the search input, slowly putting in letters until a free game pops up.
Also, there are plenty of AA and AAA games available for free on the high seas! Just need to know where to look!
Well, shoving adverts in front of gamers under the flimsiest of excuses will definitelly turn around the trend of game companies going bankrupts when Microsoft purchases them ...
"Looks like you're about to kill the dragon. How about killing a sixpack of Miller Light?"
Sounds like something that would yank me out of the immersion every time. Why would anyone agree to that b.s.
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Putting aside that it's idiotic anticonsumer patent. May I just ask here. How tf this even gets patented? Should I patent the act of showing the advertisement sign to my neighbors every time they open their door, so I can get exclusivity rights ownership on doing such an idiotic thing? Like why it gets accepted? It doesn't sound even remotely technologically meaningful, neither it needs to withstand concurrency. It's just a waste of tax money.
How tf this even gets patented?
It hasn't, yet, afaict. Applying for a patent != it being granted.
As to the latent question of why Microsoft seems confident enough to try:
Because the times of a patent requiring to clear a reasonable inventive threshold (to actually be a motor for innovation) are far behind us. These days, patents' principal (not exclusive) purpose imho is so big corporations can sue each other to grab some of the others' earnings.
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I generally don't think F2P games are a very good deal for the player, regardless of the form that the monetization takes.
I'd just rather just pay up front and then have a good experience.
It really depends. There are great examples like DOTA2 and Path of Exile, and miserable examples, like every crappy gacha game.
Riot is kinda in the middle for me. Shame they nuked 2XKO after not telling anyone about it or catering to the people they neglected to tell about it.
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We are assisting to triple A games fall and indie's boom
Is that when they pay us to play these games? AAA gaming will die a horrible death if they do this.
Bethesda really missed the memo with Starfield. All those wasted loading screens...
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It's just as shitty and funny as the one where Sony had a similar-looking mechanism where the viewer of their TVs is disrupted by an ad, then has to shout the name of the product to banish it away.
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so microsoft made games even less playable and fun my god time to cancel microsoft we need the ai datacenter companies bankrupt as the epstein class came for our games too the whole list of top 5-10 companies in spy needs to go bankrupt for the good of gaming and the world
just want to say there are at least 40,000 video games at least freely available on the internet of every conceivable genre. Some rivaling in quality to any game being made by these greedy fucks. Why does ANYONE bother with any shit they make anymore I just cannot understand. There is more gameplay out there than any person could play through in a lifetime.
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