The GamePass thing, where you lose the games you had to buy again, once they sunk it?
this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2026
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Like, I don't hate the pricing if it were not IN ADDITION to already paying for Gamepass, where I feel this all goes wrong is the fact you'd now effectively be paying to pause the game for a bathroom break or whatever and that just feels wrong.
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So they are trying to do an internet cafe?
What else do you expect them to do with the billions of dollars of high end data centers they built for copilot? Help humanity in any way?
they plan to charge you by click, too
Next: you pay for the game, pay for the time, pay per click, and now competitive losses count toward your profile free, but wins don't count unless they're validated with Xbox gems, now available in 10-packs.
It's funny. Because pretty soon individual "Game Designers" will for the first time be able to create highly complex games using generative AI in very little time. Any game. Even games with a scole like GTA 6 could be generated. And as long as the game describes and edits enough, they will also be an individual creation. Triple AAA video games with a side of slop will become incredibly cheap to make. Much will be total garbage, but we'll see some really cool new ideas that would never have been made before.
This enshittification we're seeing now will only drive this process faster. Even games piracy is going to die lol.
You see a game but don't like some aspect of it? Download someone else's game design document for it and tweak it a bit and generate your own version of that game.
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Well, what do you see around you, who needs this?
I mean, OK, worked with the Web, so - might happen.
But even with the Web - we don't seem to be on Facebook now, do we?
Also p2p poolable resources are not a bad thing, so honestly I'd want more positive thoughts on this, with ideas how to make a functional p2p system of lending computing power, for games too.
Would likely need overhead in the form of some intermediate bytecode, though, due to different GPUs and architectures, and probably different kinds of it for GPUs and CPUs, and some way to pay, but in general such a thing if made could become the second really popular Kademlia application after BitTorrent.
OK, I've become very dreamy after putting together a clumsy Forth in C, that doesn't even do anything useful, but perhaps one day someone with longer hands.