• clearedtoland@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    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!

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      11 months ago

      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

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        11 months ago

        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.

    • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
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      11 months ago

      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?

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        11 months ago

        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.

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    11 months ago

    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.

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      11 months ago

      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.

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        11 months ago

        That’s fair. Im thinking things like the old Escape Velocity series or Myst (the original).

  • LifeOfChance@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    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.