Watching an ad would earn players another block of ad-free play time, called a “credit”
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- lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish45 minutes
Imagine coming up with this idea and presenting it to your superiors instead of being so disgusted with yourself that you immediately splatter your brains all over the ceiling.
- 9 minutes
they need to make money, i don’t feel it wrong to try to milk every possible angle
- 7 minutes
so microsoft made games even less playable and fun my god time to cancel microsoft we need the ai datacenter companies bankrupt as the epstein class came for our games too the whole list of top 5-10 companies in spy needs to go bankrupt for the good of gaming and the world
- Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
“Looks like you’re about to kill the dragon. How about killing a sixpack of Miller Light?”
5 hoursI generally don’t think F2P games are a very good deal for the player, regardless of the form that the monetization takes.
I’d just rather just pay up front and then have a good experience.
- 7 minutes
because that f2p game, would cost u more money than buying the game upfront
i spend like 80-90 dollar on dota2 cosmetic, plus 2 battlepasses and its levels
- Soleos@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
Me too, but clearly there’s a huge part of the market that would rather put up with ads than go with an alternative
- clucose@lemmy.mlEnglish10 hours
Maybe Microsoft is patenting it so nobody will do this in the future. They have the best for the gamers in mind. /s
Wait, someone should make a gaming organization that just thinks of the most outlandish and ghoulish things to patent them so the big corpos can’t.
- MufinMcFlufin@lemmy.worldEnglish6 hours
Truth be told, that actually might be a neat thing to do. Imagine trying to think up really scummy ways to inject advertising into games, create new forms of mtx, etc. just to patent them and sit on those patents.
I feel like it would do a bit of the Streisand effect since by patenting them you’re making them known, but that could be a bit better than letting someone else figure it out and get exclusive use of that patent for years. Either way anyone checking gaming patents can learn about it, but in one situation it’s used for the duration of the patent and in the other its not.
- IamMoonPie@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
You think Microsoft has consumers best interests in mind? Are you serious? Like are you genuinely caping for Microsoft or am I missing something here?
- Soleos@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
This is to refine existing F2P advert inserts so the timing is less abrupt. It is also for an ad-supported game-pass tier so they can inject ads into any game in the library.
Will it mean more developers/publishers choose to inject ads into games? Maybe. But plenty of games already have convenient spots for ads that don’t require this kind of tech, like match queuing, etc. and they don’t run ads.
Pretty sure that in a decade, the norm will be that ads are absolutely everywhere. Only holdouts (think Kojima etc) and tiny indie setups will be able to avoid it. Every AA+ title will be riddled with it, and just like you can’t imagine people just “accepting” that today, we couldn’t imagine people “just accepting” microtransactions fifteen years ago. Yet here we are.
- Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish10 hours
Well, shoving adverts in front of gamers under the flimsiest of excuses will definitelly turn around the trend of game companies going bankrupts when Microsoft purchases them …
- Karmatrine@sh.itjust.worksEnglish10 hours
Putting aside that it’s idiotic anticonsumer patent. May I just ask here. How tf this even gets patented? Should I patent the act of showing the advertisement sign to my neighbors every time they open their door, so I can get exclusivity rights ownership on doing such an idiotic thing? Like why it gets accepted? It doesn’t sound even remotely technologically meaningful, neither it needs to withstand concurrency. It’s just a waste of tax money.
- ExtraJudgement@lemmy.worldEnglish9 hours
How tf this even gets patented?
It hasn’t, yet, afaict. Applying for a patent != it being granted.
As to the latent question of why Microsoft seems confident enough to try:
Because the times of a patent requiring to clear a reasonable inventive threshold (to actually be a motor for innovation) are far behind us. These days, patents’ principal (not exclusive) purpose imho is so big corporations can sue each other to grab some of the others’ earnings.
- ILikeBoobies@lemmy.caEnglish9 hours
Loading screen games was patented, this doesn’t seem much different.
It’s just as shitty and funny as the one where Sony had a similar-looking mechanism where the viewer of their TVs is disrupted by an ad, then has to shout the name of the product to banish it away.
- Chrglstr143@lemmy.zipEnglish15 hours
That one black mirror episode where you had limited credits to skip ads and the forced you to keep your eyes open to watch the unskippable ad if you didn’t have the credits. Enough said.
Seriously, what the hell are they thinking? Did they not come up with anything better? Oh well, now we definitely know we’re living in a dystopia at least.
- 12 hours
🎶You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt Saint Peter don’t you call me, 'cause I can’t go I owe my soul to the company store🎶
- Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish13 hours
What’s amazing is they are proposing to introduce such a scheme in the product that people aren’t forced to use.
I just won’t play those games. End of problem.
- JeeBaiChow@lemmy.worldEnglish15 hours
THIS is what the new head of gaming came up with to save xbox? Lol.
lands the final hit against Margit in Elden Ring
“Tarnished… Have you heard about Burger King’s new Loaded Jalepeno Whopper? Now only $6.99.”
