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Microsoft Patents Technique for Inserting Ads Into Videogames While You’re Playing Them.
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Microsoft Patents Technique for Inserting Ads Into Videogames While You’re Playing Them.
futurism.com/future-society/microsoft-patents-software-ad-credit-video-gamesReplying to @eicker@lemmy.world
Microsoft keeps finding innovative ways to make owning its products feel like renting them. You buy the Xbox, buy the game, maybe pay for Game Pass, and Microsoft still patents a way to interrupt you with ads. At this rate, the final boss will be a 30 second unskippable commercial.
Replying to @eicker@lemmy.world
The only winning move for the final boss is to put down the controller and go outside.
Replying to @CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world
A screen from the movie War Games. The screen says GREETINGS PROFESSOR FALKEN HELLO A STRANGE GAME. THE ONLY WINNING MOVE IS NOT TO PLAY.