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...

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.

Rent-seeking is definitely a sign of a financially-healthy company. Yup. No red flags there.

They can fuck right off...

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.

On top of the purchase price? Yikes, no thank you.

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.

I've never paid a cent to stream anything. There's all kinds of streaming everything that wants me to pay money to stream their shit. Guess what? No.

You can do it now. You'll be able to do it in the future too. Movies, games, makes no difference. There are several lifetimes worth of games you can play without capitulating to the stupid late-stage capitalist bullshit that's going on in this moment.

And it's not always easy. I recently purchased a copy of Max Payne 3, a 14 year old game, because it was on sale for $7. After downloading, I discovered that it required me to register an account with Rockstar to play the single player campaign. I uninstalled it and got it refunded. I intend to pirate it now, out of spite.

Fuck these corporations. Don't contribute to them. There's plenty of other shit to do and there always will be.

They can want it as much as they like, they can fuck off.

I've called this so many times over... It's not just going to be xbox... it's going to be PCs in general, With AI data centers raising up the price on all hardware, They are already making moves in the government on banning routers. The plan is going to be for personal computers and hardware to leave the world. Either price them out of consumer reach or flat out outlaw them. We get thin clients like stadia, Luna etc... Actually having a personal computer capable of running software itself will be considered a national security threat. Why wouldn't you keep your stuff in the cloud where the government can audit it, companies can make sure you aren't pirating or running unapproved illegal LLMs that could make bombs etc...

How about I never """buy""" a game again from you Microsoft?

This is why I am amassing a library of games and media that can all be consumed locally. The day that becomes the default is the day I stop paying for any of that. I don’t need “the new thing” or “you must watch this”. I have plenty of stuff to keep me entertained till the end of time.

The bitch is going to be components but I’m making sure I can work with things across multiple generations and have spares just in case.

Get absolutely fucked.

Microsoft wants to never sell another product to me again? Fine

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.

Back in my day it was called an arcade video game.

They did it, they made something worse than google Stadia!

Linux sever at home + sunshine for stream. MS can eat a dick.

Piracy Stonks

And we've come full circle back to arcades. Just with extra(fewer?) steps now.

they definitely want to put XBOX to the grave in favor of continuing the AI grift.

If I bought the game, why would I be streaming it anyway?

What a deal! Especially since the next gen Helix thingy is probably going to cost around US$1800, XBox is definitely the future of gaming. All hail Asha Sharma, the savior of XBox! (/s for those at the back who can't hear me clearly.)

Welcome to the future, my friends, where soon enough you will not be able to own your own at-home compute because it's too expensive, and instead you'll just have to pay hourly to use someone else's compute.

Stadia didn't charge to stream, though I suppose if it still existed it probably would by now.

How about no?

Gamers gotta buy compute tokens, too. Welcome to devops billing, gamers. The tech companies decided they're done just taxing each other, time to tax you, too.

I wonder if XBox realizes that their player base isn't locked into their ecosystem...

And they are certainly far from the only option.