I have a free use method of avoiding these charges where I don’t use microsoft
this post was submitted on 23 Sep 2026
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So anyway, archery is cheap, fun, and there are no ads.
Practice your archery on ads
On advertisers
Even better! I miss the days where people would holler ads. You could punch them!
For a second I misread the title as "Microsoft's Potato Technique" something something. That would probably be a more delightful title.
Then again, it's Microsoft. Who knows how they wouldn't screw even that up.
Just use an OS that does not do this.
on an Xbox ?
If you are using an xbox, you kind of deserve this.
Done. No ragerts
This is going to happen, too, I guarantee it. Gamepass basic with ads coming next year.
Can they just ffffff off with this?
Everytime I think I could not hate Microsoft more than I already do, they come out and do something like this.
Just don't play Microsoft games. They crippled or outright destroyed all their former good game studios anyway. So it's not like they will be making great games you can't live without anyway.
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We trully live in an Age of Technological Devolution.
And Environmental Devolution.
And Political Devolution.
And Economic Devolution.
But the richer have never before been this rich.
Microsoft patents technique for me not buying another game from them ever
Never more proud of my decision to drop Xbox in favor of my Steam Deck.
Like it just keeps getting better and better
Fail comm :/
Its so amazing that we had so many routes to make things better and better. Technology promised such an amazing future. Of course, greed ruined that and here we are. We fumbled the bag people...
not we the epstein class did this.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, would you be so kind and repeat after me: abandonware and indie games are the future!
I just picked up this little gem, "The Necromancer's Tale." Its Indie it looks oldschool and it is plot heavy. Most important is that it is crafted with care.
Microsoft keeps finding innovative ways to make owning its products feel like renting them. You buy the Xbox, buy the game, maybe pay for Game Pass, and Microsoft still patents a way to interrupt you with ads. At this rate, the final boss will be a 30 second unskippable commercial.
me vs the 36 hours unskippable ad final boss.
They fucked themselves when they went on their buying spree of studios. Their idea was literally that they would own every game studio, making a GamePass a necessity that they could charge whatever they wanted for.
Their quest inflated the price of every subsequent studio they acquired, leading them to take on so much debt that they had to shutter the studios they'd just purchased, and now they have to make a ton of money on every game--but that's not how games work.
Just capitalism things...
But they didn't even have to shutter many of the studios. Many of them were profitable. Microsoft just didn't want the competition and they decided the studios weren't obscenely profitable
oh if thats the case follow the developers of said games and teams and ignore any ip they using to make said game completely the old story franchise name is meaningless when people realize that then it can move forward. follow the devs people not the company that hold the ip and patents always. companies are leeches
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The only winning move for the final boss is to put down the controller and go outside.
I’m bout to invent a patent called I’m not gonna play anything that microslop has its sloppy little hands in.
BRB gonna put a game on steam where you can shoot aggressive advertisers in the face.
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Isn't there some kind of group that patents awful ideas so nobody else can use them?
Apparently that group is called Microsoft.
Guess I'll just keep sailing the high seas. Someone let me know when businesses want to act with some semblance of good faith to their customers.
can count on one hand the number of microslop games ive played and still have enough fingers left to flip em off
Damn, by patenting it they're actually doing us all a huge favor.
Everyone will simply avoid microsoft games and no other gaming company can copy their stupid ideas.
Based
OK, hear me out, let's start a patent troll corp. and file for all the enshittification ideas ahead of the studio owners.
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