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They really are trying alienate their users.

Every day we veer closer to that Black Mirror episode.

Well, I am glad it is Microslop patenting this. That means it will only ever be used in a handful of games noone evert plays before xbox goes completely belly up.

"It makes games more accessible for everyone! If a player does not want to experience ads, then they can purchase the game at full price!"

They are tired of people not buying their shitty games, so they want a way to at least make a bit of money before the servers go down.

Or they just want to make more money off of everyone.

killstreak reward: force entire enemy team to watch an ad break immediately in the middle of the match

I'm pretty sure there's a black mirror episode on this.

"Open your eyes!"

They patented so we can't get games with mechanics like this for two decades, right? They did this to protect us, right? Right? ...

Yeah, do patent this microsoft, good thing only your crappy games will have this

Things like this tell me Microsoft doesn't care any more about what brought them to make Xbox. Only how they can get as much money out of existing users.

Reminds me of this video about Mature markets. https://youtu.be/_HJXSt7ofOU

probably going to be AI-GENERATED ads too.

Or, instead of ad-free playtime credits, don't inject ads in the first place.

Ah, yes, of course; let's screw with the player's flow by taking them completely out of the game, just so they can continue playing the game!

How could this possibly go wrong?

Download your pirated copies now! I can totally see this being implemented in older games via updates.

What in the fuck...

Literally the Black mirror episode.

I would rather read a book

I've hated Microsoft since the late 90s. I refused to ever own an XBox. My friends rolled their eyes, but I get semi-regular reminders that validate my feelings.

I've been a console guy my whole life, but I'm starting to realize that PC is, indeed, the master race.

Yeah good luck with that. I'll stick with windows xp games if I have to. I'd rather play playstation 2 games than sit through ads on modern hardware. Amiga games, even.

I've seen this mechanism a hundred times already, and they want to patent it? Good luck

And yes, it sucks as bad as it sounds

Can we just drop the pretends and go straight to making everyone slaves?

so microsoft strategy is to make games not fun and to sell u ai slop

Are Mircosoft jealous of Playstation, and are trying to lose MORE customers than PS?

I was playing an Xbox game you can only get by downloading from the store. They must have been testing out this freeze function because the game had to buffer so many times while I was playing that I will probably never play that game again.

It's my favorites series as well but I guess I'm not playing any new Skate games anymore. I didn't have that problem with all the Skate games that came with a disk.

Do these people just want everyone to not play their games and to pirate everything!

lol mobile platforms have been doing this for what decades at this point.

Lmfao

Microsoft makes games?

Outside is too scary, books to boring, guitar too hard. I guess i have no choice.

It's sad that almost none of the tech companies remain in the business that made them rich and powerful, they all kept that core business only as bait, but they switched to "sucking their victims dry" business

On games I’ve purchased? Didn’t read the article.

Edit: downvoted for asking a question. That’s some reddit shit.

You guys do know that a patent isn't a promise to implement something.

Remember that Sony patent. Never been used and never will be.