wanting and getting dont always happen
this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2026
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Iirc One of the previous heads of xbox said that they're intentionally trying to kill the xbox brand over time by enshittyfying it (or words to that effect).
This might very wel be that. They know damn well this will piss people off.
What is the end goal of killing Xbox? Not having to deal with consoles and just concentrate on computers?
Where is the line for gamers? They think you’re marks.
Your playing for cloud computing which as never been free very misleading headline
It's already part of the monthly fee. They are now tacking on an additional charge. It thought it was pretty clear.
tell microsoft to eat itself its time hopefully microsoft turns from a 5b company to 0 dollars in time.
Not that I dont share your sentiment. But Microsoft market cap is as of right now 3.9 Trillion. Not 5 billion.
game streaming. Can no one read?
as a paperspace user i read the first part as 'oh nice' ... then i kept reading. i'll keep paying 0.76USD/hr. i don't have time to justify paying for a gaming pc... especially now. so paperspace has been great when i want to play a high end game. my library, mods. but yeah... m$ hell bent on destroying their company for copilot.
Whatever. I would never allow an Xbox in my house. When they came out it was obviously just another shit product from a shit company. Hard pass.
The upside is hopefully it will just continue to alienate their market.
Halo 2 on Xbox was kind of a blast. But otherwise yeah
More like a phenomenon. Things come and go though. I don't play games anymore; I don't even know what's popular.
Halo died a long time ago when I was still playing. Halo: Reach felt like the start of its decline.
Once again, I pray for the time when China floods the market with GPUs, RAM, and storage to the point where all these technocapitalists get fucked.
Fuck renting shit.
If they did that, the technocapitalists would just make Chinese hardware illegal.
If Americans cannot get their treats and the bread and Circus stops, then they will resort to other means of expressing dissent.
The USA is highly individualistic and materialistic. If they can't get their treats, then stochastic crime will take place (not that I'm against that, fuck capital).
I totally agree, which is another reason we should not expect China to save us. Their ideal world is one where Americans finally take power from the capitalist class.
My ideal world is that but we immediately also start to undermine the Chinese as well through decentralized production and logistics so good it makes over seas shipping too expensive. Mind you I want that for the entire world, you cannot fathom the arousal I feel at the idea of a Trans-Berringia trains bridge to connect the logistics of the old and new world, also the Trans-African rail should be completed to such an extent that goods in the Congo are as cheap as goods in LA.
That's my ideal world too though. You say that like it's a bad thing.
Yes, it’s also my ideal world. Sorry if I came across as pro-capitalist 🤮
Exactly. And they will use the excuse that the chinese hardware might spy on us, all while the hardware they allow us to buy is doing that openly.
They did it, they made something worse than google Stadia!
Oh fuck no.
This has been a successful business model for mmos for decades. This is not new.
Not really, the MMO model is ppm not ppp.
The gamepass subscription already fits the MMO model.
It's quite similar. Pay for a game and then pay for game "time.". Mmos are a pre pay, this is likely billed after playing. But really just paying for time after buying the game.
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And we've come full circle back to arcades. Just with extra(fewer?) steps now.
They didn't used to make us buy the arcade machine first.
Very true. Gotta think of those shareholders and make it more expensive somehow.
Back in my day it was called an arcade video game.
Except you didn't have to buy your own arcade machine before you started shoveling quarters into it.
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Isn't this just free on both pc and playstation?
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