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/420weedscoped Rtx 3090 | Amd Ryzen 7 5800x | 32Gb DDR4 24d ago

Valve could also just put it agaisnt their terms of service and pretty much everybody would have to go along or you'd sell nothing on PC.

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u/19412 RX 550 • i5-6600K 24d ago edited 24d ago

It's already against Steam's storefront policy to implement ad-based revenue generation for anything that isn't a promotional event within a game. This ads-for-playtime thing would never be permitted.

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u/lmflex ryzen 7 7800x3d, geforce 5070ti 16gb, 64gb ddr5 6000 cl30 24d ago

And people still dislike steam? Imagine if Sony or microslop ran that. It would be past garbage by now. With AI garbage. And every update would break half the games.

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u/No-Pomegranate-69 R7-9800X3D | RTX 5080 | 64GB DDR5 | 2x 4TB M.2 24d ago

Extremely expensive garbage on my side