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.

There’s enough old good games to last me the rest of my life without giving any money to these evil companies

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

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

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

“Open your eyes!”

Let’s make version of Proton to block all that when playing the games on Linux. It’s gonna be hilarious.

What in the fuck…

Literally the Black mirror episode.

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.

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

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.

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.