Why does this feel more relavent suddenly

Sometimes I think due process should have its limits. When people suggest ideas that are so grossly enshittified, we should be able to beat them with sticks.

DRINK VERIFICATION CAN!

Maybe Microsoft is patenting it so nobody will do this in the future. They have the best for the gamers in mind. /s

Additionally let's not have video game characters say any swear words or bad words like "kill" to make it more advertiser friendly.

Quest: "Unalive 10 cave troll's and get your reward from Dr. Pepper"

I'm generally against software patents, but I kinda like that this was patented. Maybe the patent will prevent other companies from enshittifying their games.

just want to say there are at least 40,000 video games at least freely available on the internet of every conceivable genre. Some rivaling in quality to any game being made by these greedy publishers. Why does ANYONE bother with any shit they make anymore I just cannot understand. There is more gameplay out there than any person could play through in a lifetime.

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.

I always figured that this would be added for xbox within a year or two, but if they try for PC I really will go onto one of the linux wikis and start swapping immediately.

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.

Just don't play those games.

THIS is what the new head of gaming came up with to save xbox? Lol.

"Looks like you're about to kill the dragon. How about killing a sixpack of Miller Light?"

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 ...

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."

Is this an ad for Steam? /s

Sounds like something that would yank me out of the immersion every time. Why would anyone agree to that b.s.

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.

There is a reason I hardly play on mobile.

We are assisting to triple A games fall and indie's boom

I'll be over here painting my tabletop minis. Fuck this.

I 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.

Is that when they pay us to play these games? AAA gaming will die a horrible death if they do this.

Bethesda really missed the memo with Starfield. All those wasted loading screens...

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.