r/pcmasterrace • u/screwdriverfan • 24d ago

News/Article Microsoft patents system to freeze games and inject ads during downtimes — watching commercials earns ad-free playtime credits

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/microsoft-patents-system-to-freeze-games-and-inject-ads-during-downtimes-watching-commercials-earns-ad-free-playtime-credits
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u/AptoticFox Laptop (2013), i7-4700MQ, GT 740M 24d ago

Is it going into games? Or into the OS?

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u/induslol 24d ago

article states ftp games as initial target.  

Habituate consumers to the bullshit there, then slam it into the OS sounds like a Microsoft move.

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u/aVarangian 13600kf 7900xtx 2160 | 6600k 1070 1440 24d ago

most pc f2p games are already such garbage that if a kid of mine touches it I'll have a post-partum abortion

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u/induslol 24d ago

Avoid prison and just turn them to the good stuff the ftp game is aping poorly.

Even then, free means easy access, which is immediately enticing to young audiences with limited means or knowledge.

Imagine a roblox popularity ftp implementing this.  Entire generation of gamers ready to accept this kind of garbage in a game played in their free time: if that level of invasion is accepted it's absolutely migrating to the OS side after.

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u/Maleficent_Onion_822 23d ago

The question in FTP-land is, do you prefer ads or gacha mechanics or pay-to-win? The developers need to get paid somehow...

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u/induslol 23d ago

I'd prefer the ftp market just go under, even if they've already opened Pandora's box.

Those options are on their face predatory and abusive.  They've served as the vanguard in normalizing terrible business practices where other non-ftp studios are now comfortable including those same predatory or abusive (up to designed addictive systems) using that same PR slop of:  "studio needs money".

They've normalized getting people hooked to addiction fostering systems rather than to genuinely good games/gameplay, and lowered the bar for the entire medium.  In pursuit of profits.

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u/Maleficent_Onion_822 23d ago

Fair point. The AAA games are doing the same things.

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u/Siri2611 24d ago

Well all the more reason to switch to Linux

Just wait for steam to release steamOS for pc

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u/Defiant-Plane4557 23d ago

We are so lucky to have linux and Valve working on it.

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u/Charly_030 22d ago

Os... if its its own games it would not need tech and a patent

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u/Blaziken420_ 24d ago

Either way, people will hard boicott it. No way people will ever accept such heresy