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- 6 days
On advertisers
6 daysEven better! I miss the days where people would holler ads. You could punch them!
- 5 days
nah chupacabruuuh, I have my target set up in the woods away from the bullshit. Or at the virtually-unused public archery range. There are ads there, and they’re ads for businesses that actually paid to build the thing, which is different from ad revenue for the sake of ad revenue TO MAXIMIZE PROFITS. Brody I’m so fuckin tired.
- Killer@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
Steam banned having to watch an ad before being able to play a game last year
- Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
What use is an Xbox nowadays? And who said that Microsoft will not use the same “feature” on Windows?
- qyron@sopuli.xyzEnglish7 days
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, would you be so kind and repeat after me: abandonware and indie games are the future!
- 🌸𝓯𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻🌸@sh.itjust.worksEnglish7 days
Entertainment these days is only found in the shadows of society
- belochka@lemmy.worldEnglish7 days
Yes, that’s how plenty of 60s’ and 70s’ sci-fi stories were about finding gems in the dust, and much of XIX century gothic stuff.
That’s sarcasm. Each time is like no other, but also the grass is always greener 100 years ago, and it’s always somehow better and worse at the same time.
But then, of course, there are tendencies and periods which won’t be remembered kindly or won’t be remembered at all.
I have only one question about that title - why the hell would anyone play a game with ads? People play games to relax, to get some rest from society, or to have some personal time with their friends mowing down cockroach hordes or something like that defending their city-fortress.
Until competitors are able to develop and sell games without such ads, people will just play those.
- 🌸𝓯𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻🌸@sh.itjust.worksEnglish7 days
and it’s always somehow better and worse at the same time.
Humanity is always on a meandering route between utopia and dystopia, never arriving at either.
why the hell would anyone play a game with ads?
It’s Microsoft. They made Embrace, Extend, Extinguish their way of life for decades. They can’t conceive competition. And they’re not really that interested anymore in the consumer market. They want to squeeze whatever they can from there before the market shrinks and aim their products more at the premium and business market who has all the money these days.
- qyron@sopuli.xyzEnglish7 days
I can agree with the assessement on how the company is aiming to bleed dry the market and is aiming to take over the business market. But honest question: what are we to understand by premium?
But even the business market is fickle. The company I work at had a scare recently with a serious security breaching. Nothing was admitted but I suspect the vector of attack was the informal Whatsapp network used to run day to day communications and it’s AI. The installed Microsoft security solutions were as efficient as a collander. I can’t imagine what was leaked. That costs money.
- 🌸𝓯𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻🌸@sh.itjust.worksEnglish7 days
Most companies these says aim for the top 10% of the income market, so rich families and businesses. The bottom 90% is losing purchasing power so not a priority these days. Sounds rational short term and is probably disastrous long term. It’s a great target for China to take over, so when AI pops and they want to return to the consumer market, it’s already taken.
- qyron@sopuli.xyzEnglish7 days
They’re making their bed, they better lie in it when it’s time. Even if it’s on fire. And full of rusty nails.
Are we taking numbers on the AI craze bust already? I say in the next six months, to a year.
- 6 days
I just picked up this little gem, “The Necromancer’s Tale.” Its Indie it looks oldschool and it is plot heavy. Most important is that it is crafted with care.
Places that advertisers have not yet turned into a vehicle for ads:
RadioTVMoviesThe InternetVideo Games- Classical Fine Art
- The Moon / Space
- Grave Markers/ Headstones
- Inside Eyelids
- Your Baby’s Smile
- Brain Implants
- ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pubEnglish6 days
I’d say this is close enough for you to strike another off your list. https://nichefacts.com/findagrave/
- Kaligalis@lemmy.worldEnglish6 days
Just don’t play Microsoft games. They crippled or outright destroyed all their former good game studios anyway. So it’s not like they will be making great games you can’t live without anyway.
- 7 days
Isn’t there some kind of group that patents awful ideas so nobody else can use them?
BRB gonna put a game on steam where you can shoot aggressive advertisers in the face.
Guess I’ll just keep sailing the high seas. Someone let me know when businesses want to act with some semblance of good faith to their customers.
- CluelessCalls@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
I have a free use method of avoiding these charges where I don’t use microsoft
- TemplaerDude@sh.itjust.worksEnglish6 days
This is going to happen, too, I guarantee it. Gamepass basic with ads coming next year.
- Zensate@lemmy.worldEnglish7 days
Damn, by patenting it they’re actually doing us all a huge favor.
Everyone will simply avoid microsoft games and no other gaming company can copy their stupid ideas.
Based
- isles@infosec.pubEnglish7 days
OK, hear me out, let’s start a patent troll corp. and file for all the enshittification ideas ahead of the studio owners.
- mushroommunk@lemmy.todayEnglish7 days
Until they license this out to every triple a studio and they all do it. Now I’m off to play more Tiny Terraces
- athatet@lemmy.zipEnglish7 days
I’m bout to invent a patent called I’m not gonna play anything that microslop has its sloppy little hands in.
- Resonosity@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish6 days
Never more proud of my decision to drop Xbox in favor of my Steam Deck.
Like it just keeps getting better and better
- Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish6 days
We trully live in an Age of Technological Devolution.
And Environmental Devolution.
And Political Devolution.
And Economic Devolution.
But the richer have never before been this rich.
