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Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes (www.techspot.com)
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Watching an ad would earn players another block of ad-free play time, called a "credit"

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[โ€“] j_elgato@leminal.space 5 points 43 minutes ago (1 children)

Your mother's corpse had teeth, right?

Some teeth have fillings.. some fillings are made of valuable metals.

The Disney corporation should exhume the corpse of your loved ones and sell their teeth on eBay - they need to make money... right?

It's the only way to be sure every POSSIBLE angle has been milked.

[โ€“] Kyunw@lemmy.world 1 points 19 minutes ago* (last edited 16 minutes ago)

You're comparing a non-consensual crime to a voluntary consumer product. Unlawfully exhuming a corpse leaves the victim and family with zero say in the matter.

A video game gives you complete choice, if a developer milks a game with ads, you can choose to uninstall it and give them zero dollars. Try making an analogy that actually deals with voluntary choice, because grave robbery isn't it.

Why not use a realistic analogy? Like how some car companies tried charging monthly subscriptions to activate built-in features like heated seats or remote start. BMW eventually killed that feature specifically because subscription sales were so extremely low. That's a real example of consumer choice driving corporate decisions, not grave robbery.