Xbox/Microsoft’s vision of the future:

The future of gaming is getting bleaker

For all the hate that playstation gets, they once bought a patent for a program that did exactly this just so that it could never be used.

Who thought this was a good idea Were there some mobile game devs who got put on the boards to make decisions like these cause holy shit this is dystopian as fuck

Who do you think?

I hate CEOs

And watch as every new game and console sale plummets immediately and people start digging out old consoles and games that don't require the Internet

in an online game thats free to play i would not mind this so long as there was an option to pay once and never see them

This patent is meant for free gamepass only. Full info is better than an extract.

I’m 100% sure this is to allow free access to some games Ask yourself this. Would you rather broke gamers not play the game at all, or just watch some ads to play?

Nice the free leeches getting ads what they deserve

Sounds like a f2p model Who cares

Once again, we own nothing. Everything is rented

Hopefully they bury the patent so no one else can do it. You know, altruism. But then again I'm retarded

When are we gonna boycott? The gaming industry not buy anything, unless it's an indie made game. That would be the smart decision boycott. Boycott Boycott

Can't have shit anymore. It's just the cyberpunk ads all over again.

I hope Windows keeps their SLOP up.. so Linux rises

@microsoft No one will play it, and it will be a money waste. Go back to $0.25 for 3 lives or organizing and collecting for the gamblers and Stonk investors. I don't ever see anyone post enjoyment of the mobile games that do this.

Fuck Sony and Microsoft

Every company's they all want to do it

Like the atrocity that mobile gaming has become? Fuck no.

The moment that happens is the moment Xbox actually dies.

I see in future game App Adblock game pro

It's just like streaming services doing the same thing. It's gone from 'owning' something, to renting it, to being a 'subscriber'... all software (and microsoft computers) do this.

I guess Xbox got jealous of Sony shooting themselves in the foot and wanted to join in

Let me guess... They plan a premium subscription to skip those ad breaks too. They poison is to sell us the cure, as they have done many times before.

"When you naturally pause the game or as loading screens" Be honest, not a feaemongerer

Mobage games, that can be paid for free and around from more than a decade, don't have this shit and they flourish, imagine putting this crap on a paid game, EA tried with a basketball title and the outrage was MASSIVE

Lol, what a great idea of how to destroy your own company.