Watching an ad would earn players another block of ad-free play time, called a “credit”
Well I guess it’s good they patented it, at least that means the others can’t do it.
I question why they would give their own games such a disadvantage, but whatever
just want to say there are at least 40,000 video games at least freely available on the internet of every conceivable genre. Some rivaling in quality to any game being made by these greedy publishers. Why does ANYONE bother with any shit they make anymore I just cannot understand. There is more gameplay out there than any person could play through in a lifetime.
Right?! I keep finding well-reviewed indie games on Steam for free every single day. And that’s just from playing around with the search input, slowly putting in letters until a free game pops up.
Also, there are plenty of AA and AAA games available for free on the high seas! Just need to know where to look!
just want to say there are at least 40,000 video games at least freely available on the internet of every conceivable genre. Some rivaling in quality to any game being made by these greedy fucks. Why does ANYONE bother with any shit they make anymore I just cannot understand. There is more gameplay out there than any person could play through in a lifetime.
I “want” ads in games to be integrated like into YouTube videos.
Cutscene:
“Oh my god, the Shadow Legion have acquired my location, Lt. John McShootyguy, you need to come to my place ASAP, and help me defeat them!”
“Roger!”
Ad: “The real world also has Shadow Legions hunting for personal information, but there’s no John McShootyguy to help you. However, you have today’s sponsor, DeleteMe. Register with the code John20% to get 20% off of your first three months of DeleteMe.”
Is that when they pay us to play these games? AAA gaming will die a horrible death if they do this.
There is a reason I hardly play on mobile.
We are assisting to triple A games fall and indie’s boom
Sometimes I think due process should have its limits. When people suggest ideas that are so grossly enshittified, we should be able to beat them with sticks.
I’m glad to see this used for this. I see you are another person of culture.
I can hear that photo
Just when I thought we have reached maximum ad saturation. Do they think these ads actually do anything anymore or is it just wishful thinking pushed by marketing execs? I’m waiting for electronic door locks to make you watch an ad to enter your home or car.
I’m generally against software patents, but I kinda like that this was patented. Maybe the patent will prevent other companies from enshittifying their games.
Or it will get licensed
but it still gonna deter the usage, because in order to make it profitable they have to put more ads without making too obnoxious
These fucks won’t rest until we have ads playing directly into our brain via chip implants 24x7
Sounds like something that would yank me out of the immersion every time. Why would anyone agree to that b.s.
patenting stuff and using it, is two different thing
At the very least the are leveraging the law to ensure they are the only ones allowed to do this kind of evil.
isnt that good? so ea cant use it XD
I always figured that this would be added for xbox within a year or two, but if they try for PC I really will go onto one of the linux wikis and start swapping immediately.
My guess is it will go into Xbox/Gamepass on PC, and in MS games, but not in other launcher ecosystems.
Still, go ahead and start researching. Whether it’s this or something else, something will be the final straw for you in Windows, soon.
I’d suggest just setting aside some time on a weekend to just nuke windows and dive in. Something like cachy os is great for gaming, or bazzite if you’d like the system files indeleble like steam os.
I ended up wiping my last windows install a few months back and I don’t miss it at all.
I have an older laptop that I was actually thinking about experimenting with first, just to give myself some confidence in figuring everything out.
I’ve been stalling on that though.
Make a live USB and just fiddle around with it. Note that a proper install on NVME will be much snappier. Don’t nuke Windows until you understand the basics of Linux and have decided you want to daily drive it. Back up your data of course. Dual boot is often more trouble that it’s worth, Windows loves to fuck up your bootloader and partitions, I got fed up unfucking it and began unplugging my Linux drives while updating Windows, and eventually just wiped it.
If you’re serious about it, try to source hardware that is well supported rather than just slap it on a random machine and hope for the best.
This is what I usually recommend to my friends who are interested if they have the hardware to spare. Sometimes I even gift them a machine if I have one to spare (mostly back when hardware was cheaper). This way you can also try out multiple distros without caring to find out which one you like best as well.
Additionally let’s not have video game characters say any swear words or bad words like “kill” to make it more advertiser friendly.
Quest: “Unalive 10 cave troll’s and get your reward from Dr. Pepper”
