2026-10-22 04:17 UTC
Replies (19)
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@eicker@lemmy.world 2026-10-22 04:19
Microsoft has reinvented the arcade, except this time you buy the game first and then feed the machine quarters to play it. Next up: a premium tier that lets you pause without the meter running. At this rate, Xbox’s most profitable game will be watching customers try to escape the billing screen.
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@echo@lemmy.today 2026-10-22 04:19
They can fuck right off…
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@TheFogan@programming.dev 2026-10-22 04:24
I’ve called this so many times over… It’s not just going to be xbox… it’s going to be PCs in general, With AI data centers raising up the price on all hardware, They are already making moves in the government on banning routers. The plan is going to be for personal computers and hardware to leave the world. Either price them out of consumer reach or flat out outlaw them. We get thin clients like stadia, Luna etc… Actually having a personal computer capable of running software itself will be considered a national security threat. Why wouldn’t you keep your stuff in the cloud where the government can audit it, companies can make sure you aren’t pirating or running unapproved illegal LLMs that could make bombs etc…
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@Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world 2026-10-22 04:54
And it’s this kind of shit that has ruined my love for tech. It’s all soulless dystopian slop they want you paying for monthly for the rest of your life. Fuck all these techno dweebs. It’s a shame all the normies will go along with this…
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@ilinamorato@lemmy.world 2026-10-22 05:14
Rent-seeking is definitely a sign of a financially-healthy company. Yup. No red flags there.
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@cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2026-10-22 05:25
Jesus. I’m like all in on indie studios and old games. I don’t need this bullshit in my life. It’s already too much if a headache to comprehend what’s possibly worth it or not when you pay by the month or the hour to try and figure out budgets and so on. Cancel it all, play the old shit and pirate the rest.
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@belochka@lemmy.world 2026-10-22 05:50
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.
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@_chris@lemmy.world 2026-10-22 06:14
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?
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@vision@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2026-10-22 06:16
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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@brsrklf@jlai.lu 2026-10-22 06:33
How about I never “”“buy”“” a game again from you Microsoft?
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@Faceman2K23@discuss.tchncs.de 2026-10-22 06:36
Get absolutely fucked.
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@AgentSeven@lemmy.zip 2026-10-22 07:12
I’ve never paid a cent to stream anything. There’s all kinds of streaming everything that wants me to pay money to stream their shit. Guess what? No. You can do it now. You’ll be able to do it in the future too. Movies, games, makes no difference. There are several lifetimes worth of games you can play without capitulating to the stupid late-stage capitalist bullshit that’s going on in this moment. And it’s not always easy. I recently purchased a copy of Max Payne 3, a 14 year old game, because it was on sale for $7. After downloading, I discovered that it required me to register an account with Rockstar to play the single player campaign. I uninstalled it and got it refunded. I intend to pirate it now, out of spite. Fuck these corporations. Don’t contribute to them. There’s plenty of other shit to do and there always will be.
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@Hiro8811@lemmy.world 2026-10-22 07:13
So they are trying to do an internet cafe?
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@Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2026-10-22 07:46
they definitely want to put XBOX to the grave in favor of continuing the AI grift.
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@mycodesucks@lemmy.world 2026-10-22 08:41
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@miadidi@lemmy.world 2026-10-22 08:45
Piracy Stonks
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@Squeak9291@lemmy.ca 2026-10-23 03:52
Lol for comparison geforce now is $8.33/month for 100 hours a month, plus 15 unused hours roll forward.
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@SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 2026-10-22 18:34
Important point of clarification- this is about streaming from the cloud, using an Xbox or GPU in the cloud to play the game. This makes sense as buying the game or not, you are still using cloud resources. Xbox Remote Play, which runs the game on your home Xbox and streams from your house to wherever you are, is free.
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@FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 2026-10-24 01:18
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.