Please drink verification can

Didn't Steam explicitly ban in-game ads? At least a large portion of PC gamers won't have to deal with this BS.

Understood.

Blacklist Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo. Only purchase indie games that run on Linux.

Or divert all video game budget to a completely different pastime.

Some youngsters sometimes get confused so:
This is what enshittification steps look like.

Gross. Maybe Steam will start listing "In Game Advertising" along with the AI warning on the store pages.

I'm sure the pirate versions will still be ad-free☠️

Ban advertising entirely.

You know what?

I think I actually WILL buy that Atari 2600+ after all…

Watch this ad before saving the game.

Look at the bright side: other companies that want to do this will be discouraged by having to pay Microsoft a royalty until the patent expires in 20 years

been really getting into emulation, and pirating games.

honestly. i could live the rest of my life without touching a modern console or AAA game, and id be all the happier for it. but if i can rip a decent fitgirl repack. sure. why not.

im not paying for something they say we dont own after the purchase.

Between this bullshit and Sony, and Nintendo speedrunning user alienation, guess I'm not buying another console. Bummer really... I hope ram comes down in price after the AI bubble bursts.

What the fuck is happening? Why are corpos speedrunning to make everything noticeably worse?

Before it felt like tiptoes forward, but now they're taking massive, fucking goosesteps to colonize new frontiers of terrible practices.

Time To Pirate

Well, another parameter to take into account when buying games, along with Denuvo and other shits... Its hard to keep up 🤣

Linux gaming works swimmingly now...

Is the U.S. patent office literally a rubber stamp now? This is so ridiculously obvious.

Buy xbox, it's best console, they are good guys because they invested in Kojima after they lay off thousands of people.