I seriously thought I must’ve accidentally clicked an icon or prompt while starting up that showed that full screen ad.
Intrusive, invasive and dystopian. I don’t even play CoD!
this post was submitted on 03 Nov 2023
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Dude same, first Roku started putting ads on the main menu and now Microsoft is pulling bullshit. Just another reminder that we don't actually own anything anymore
You know! That’s what I was originally going to comment but wasn’t sure it’d make sense. Purchasing a product just means another way to sell to you nowadays. It’s ridiculous.
How do the people working fore Microsoft even come up with this shit? Do they not play Xbox? How are they not infuriated with every idea like this that they come up with?
Ambitious exec promotion candidate has an idea, senior executive sees idea and sponsors it as they believe it will make them money, JIRA lands in dev backlog, devs moan about it, devs like having jobs, devs implement.
Context being you now get full screen ads on Xbox startup for COD
Soon for just 11.99 a month you can get Xbox pro extreme and enjoy an ad free experience.
If I saw this on booting a device I paid for I would light it on fire.
I honestly don’t understand why anyone buys major-publisher games anymore. There are indie games that are at least as good and that come without the garbage.
Most indie games just don't draw me in. They're usually missing some major mechanic that ruins it for me. I also enjoy quality graphics, and in my experience, that's the first thing to go with an indie developer.
That's not to say I haven't found some I enjoy (bastion, sea of stars, stardew valley), but most of the time they just don't do it for me.
That’s fair. Im thinking things like the old Escape Velocity series or Myst (the original).
I know we all don't want to accept it but the truth is this will work. Until whales stop existing things like this will be around. These companies are forcing advertisements in every part of our lives and now they aren't even trying to be sly about it.
Laughs in Battlebit Remastered
$69 billion?
Nice.