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.

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, would you be so kind and repeat after me: abandonware and indie games are the future!

Isn't there some kind of group that patents awful ideas so nobody else can use them?

BRB gonna put a game on steam where you can shoot aggressive advertisers in the face.

I’m bout to invent a patent called I’m not gonna play anything that microslop has its sloppy little hands in.

Hopefully they don’t license this patent out so it’s really easy to avoid

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

Places that advertisers have not yet turned into a vehicle for ads:

• Radio
• TV
• Movies
• The Internet
• Video Games
• Classical Fine Art
• The Moon / Space
• Grave Markers/ Headstones
• Inside Eyelids
• Your Baby's Smile
• Brain Implants

Drinks a verification can

So anyway, archery is cheap, fun, and there are no ads.

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.

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.

Who's got that copy-pasta about drinking verification cans to play their games? I think that fits here.

I'd patent my well-honed technique for not playing Microsoft games but I want to share it with the world, free of charge.

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 use an OS that does not do this.

That’s So Microsoft!™

"… while you're playing them." — that's ambitious at this point.

Never more proud of my decision to drop Xbox in favor of my Steam Deck.

Like it just keeps getting better and better

Microsoft patents technique for me not buying another game from them ever

Good call on their part. Wouldn't want anyone to steal their dog shit idea.

Planetside 1 did this 20 years ago. There were screens in the waiting rooms for the shuttle in each faction's sanctuary world where they would play real-world commercials while you wait. Hard to find any info on it, it was so long ago

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.

EA did this years ago

I have a free use method of avoiding these charges where I don’t use microsoft

Fuck Microsoft.

This is going to happen, too, I guarantee it. Gamepass basic with ads coming next year.

Gamepass lower tier with ads - when?

Oooo, that happens and I'd make it a point to contact the manufacturer/creator of said advertised product or service and politely inform them that because of the interruption of MY TIME, while relxing in a game, I will now never, ever consider their company, goods or services.

Make it formal, concise and final and if possible send it to the CEO. You want that one to come down on the head of whomever decided to insert themselves into a player's game - get them in trouble with the boss - with a vengeance.

It often works.

Its so amazing that we had so many routes to make things better and better. Technology promised such an amazing future. Of course, greed ruined that and here we are. We fumbled the bag people...

Move to Bazzite. https://bazzite.gg/

Micro$oft will be the next Google advertising company, with a browser & software as it's side hustle. Advertising is a cancer.

There's no fucking way that doesn't have prior art

New Activision halo is going to make a game with QTEs where you have to eat a dorito or drink mt dew.

Fail comm :/

such periodic breaks can be placed at a variety of predictable times in the content without adversely affecting the user experience,” the Microsoft patent declares.

The experience is very much affected I would say... But that's only me...

can count on one hand the number of microslop games ive played and still have enough fingers left to flip em off

For a second I misread the title as "Microsoft's Potato Technique" something something. That would probably be a more delightful title.

Then again, it's Microsoft. Who knows how they wouldn't screw even that up.

As if I wasn’t already interested in the Xbox.

"Loading a gif at runtime" wow, such innovation.

Pretty sure Gates of Galoo has prior art too

Everytime I think I could not hate Microsoft more than I already do, they come out and do something like this.

Can they just ffffff off with this?

they are going to lock boss, and quests behind AD play time, no doubt.

You guys do know a patent isn't a declaration to implement it?

Like you know that Sony TV ad patent that gets brought up every now and then as "The dystopian future of watching TV". Yeah that was in 2009.

at least this hopefully means this is limited to microsoft's games, which arent that worthwhile in the first place