I hope you enjoy ads we have to make our $69B back

Context being you now get full screen ads on Xbox startup for COD
- Soon for just 11.99 a month you can get Xbox pro extreme and enjoy an ad free experience.
  
  Xbox Live and Game Pass not included.

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!
- 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
  
  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.
- 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?
  
  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.

And there's my decision not to buy an Xbox vindicated.
- I thought about buying an xbox to install kodi on and play some games on the big screen. But when i saw their new trash ad interface and now this, i'll never buy any of their shit again.
  
  After the red rings of death, never again.

If I saw this on booting a device I paid for I would light it on fire.
- No shit, i'd sell it on the same day

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.
- 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.
  
  That’s fair. Im thinking things like the old Escape Velocity series or Myst (the original).
- The games industry got fucking huge and most people are just mindless consumers who buy whatever is advertised to them. It sounds crazy, but people buy these $70 games, buy the 'deluxe' editions for almost double, then buy loads of cosmetics in game. And they do it every year. All these companies are going to do is milk this mindset, so triple A will never change.
  Indie, as you say, is the way to go. Actual games made by passionate people, with (most of the time) no bullshit attached.
  
  Why mindless? Why can't I enjoy a multi-player arcade shooter without being called mindless?
  I almost exclusively play AAA games, with the occasional indie in between. The indies I play are basically all the famous ones that got really big.
  It's my entertainment, my time. Why call me mindless? The only issue Lemmy has, this whole "rebel without a cause" attitude against everything that is mainstream :)
  A friend of mine is a top level director on a recent AAA game that wasn't very well received. I can assure you, he was very passionate about his game.
- Yeah, the golden age of AAA games was over after the 360/PS3 era imo.
  
  What are you even on about. This is the best year in gaming since like 10 plus years.

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.

Laughs in Battlebit Remastered

$69 billion?
Nice.