lol ad says “Xbox game pass is here to give you more” reality-“you are here to give more to Xbox game pass”

"Windows 11 is here to give you ads"

Microsoft gaslighting scumbags!
It’s a lie and they should not be able to get away with that kind of advertising.

But who am I kidding, they are above the law.

@cafecortado https://youtu.be/DSIH-ol29bk/... in your car, fridge, dishwasher, tv's. We're paying for advertisement machines. They even undersell it (tv's) to make profit on the side services. It's disgusting. Total dystopia. Also, Chatgpt that knows how you think / knows you well, will also be an ad machine. The greed is unlimited. Big hardware companies have to grow x in every period but that's hard if your fridge last so many years. Put more electronics that expire in it and on top of it, keep trying to get money out of ya.

I'm sure there will come product brands / lines that specialize in non-Ai stuff.

More like "Here to take more".

@whimsical That youtuber is great. Only watched 2 videos of her is she doing a very good job imo

@wojtek322 yeah, and les than 100.000 subscribers but what a good quality videos. No shit, no sponsors. And she actually tells shit I don't know and is interesting. Also her last video is cool, they told us to cure cancer but we got this instead :p

Microsoft got drunk on power. They really have no competition, so the suits on top thought "hey, monopoly, let's milk"

Newsflash, it backfired.

Slow API double posted

All things aside, I could buy pretty much any videogame I wanted, but taking into account the whole world, let's say, and I'm being optimistic, people can buy 4 games a year. That's, at least, 280 euro.

Gamepass at 30/mo, is 360. No longer worth it.

I mean, if I really want to play day one, I can buy the fucking game. And, especially for people with kids and such, which is obviously their target audience (male adults with disposable income), it's a ruinous deal, because for them, one of the four games a year can easily last more than three months...

I guess I'll stick to my model. Since companies lie, I'll lie. I'll keep pirating every game I can, and if it's worth the buck, I'll pay for it even if I already beat it.

And so no one can complain, in the last 2 years I did it with BG3, ghost of Tsushima, black myth Wukong, soul reaver remaster, expedition 33, hades, and triangle strategy.

@CoreFusionX Plus, when you play on PC rather than a console, you don’t need to spend 60-70€ per game.
And you can still use a gamepad. (But you don’t have to)

@CoreFusionX I never got the point of “you can play day one”, when I could easily buy and download the game on day one. Works like a charm

@Lensflare

Well, most games are priced similarly on PC. Unless they are indies, but indies (hate me as much as you want, hardly ever meet my standards). They are the equivalent nowadays of shovelware, with some hidden gems in the midst.

@TeachMeCode

The idea is that for a "play any game for a fixed subscription price", having games day one is actually a big deal.

Gamepass subscriptions would tank if people had to wait, say, 1 year to play.

Yeah, dads probably wouldn't mind, but a lot of the public of gamepass, are, as I said, young adults or fathers that like videogames, would.

They could easily just buy the 3/4 vidya a year they want, and it would come out cheaper than gamepass.

Let's be real, outside of day ones, or big titles that come later, no one gives a fuck about the filler shit they include, just like in steam.

And it's especially egregious (and confirms my take) when all people do is complain about games not coming to gamepass day one, and their response was locking day one releases under the higher tier subscriptions.

@CoreFusionX > 'They are the equivalent nowadays of shovelware, with some hidden gems in the midst.'

So true. I see that a lot on eShop. !sure it's the same for MS && Sony, but given how most games are multiplatform nowadays, seems like it should.

@D-4got10-01

Being able to publish with minimal (if any) QA, and hardly any moderation from stores leads to that, yes .
In the end, both the store and the dev hurt themselves, because erasing (gommaging, fucking GotY)
Is something stores won't do, and it drives down interest in others.

@CoreFusionX True. The devs doing that are terrible && platform owners are just as bad for letting that crap onto their platforms. This used to be a mobile platform problem, though. Now, the consoles aren't much better. I _still_ cannot believe the 'The Last Hope - Dead Zone Survival' got actually published. https://eurogamer.net/theres-a-the-... . I was completely dumbstruck when I saw it on the eShop.

I bet at least half of the indie games are horror games that start off at a gas station kwik e mart mopping floors and involve a killer clown

One of the easiest things you can do on steam is find a game about an evil clown

@TeachMeCode You're !far off from the truth. I've noticed an increase in the genre recently. Hmm... maybe the reason is a tutorial. I seem to vaguely remember either a Unity or Unreal tutorial for those games being sold some time ago... probably on Humble Bundle.

@D-4got10-01 WTF holy shit imagine buying a game only to find out the “dev” used a canned educational project as the core and added a few things himself

That’s like going to a pizzeria and finding out you spent 15 bucks on a digiornos frozen pie with a few extra ingredients from the restaurant added in so they can avoid the courtroom

@TeachMeCode I think it was one of these: https://humblebundle.com/software/... or https://udemy.com/course/... .

Either way, I can imagine w/o any problems a person watching that && then half-assing the code using an LLM.

Indeed, like coming in to a restaurant for some food just to learn that they had it frozen && microwaved it.