• FreddiesLantern@leminal.space
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    11 hours ago

    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.

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      10 hours ago

      What is the end goal of killing Xbox? Not having to deal with consoles and just concentrate on computers?

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        10 hours ago

        I don’t know. I mean I wouldn’t put it past themto try and merge the whole gaming experience into the Windows ecosystem. We all know what geniuses they are doubling down on the whole slop ridden W11 thing.

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          This would be so dumb… and at the same time so possible!

          Execs totally disconnected from the players base having no damn clue how they’re going to react.

          Players are going to be so pissed they’re much less likely to buy anything through MS ever again, but that won’t compute in an exec’s mind.

        • DrSoap@lemmy.world
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          9 hours ago

          That sounds like some exec thought it would work. Maybe they saw the success of steam and want a piece of that pie without having to put out hardware? I might be too old to understand, but if that’s the future of console gaming, I don’t want a part of it.

  • sompreno@lemmy.zip
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    11 hours ago

    Your playing for cloud computing which as never been free very misleading headline

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      10 hours ago

      It’s already part of the monthly fee. They are now tacking on an additional charge. It thought it was pretty clear.

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    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.

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        22 hours ago

        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).

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          21 hours ago

          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.

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            10 hours ago

            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.

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        22 hours ago

        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.

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    14 hours ago

    tell microsoft to eat itself its time hopefully microsoft turns from a 5b company to 0 dollars in time.

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      12 hours ago

      Not that I dont share your sentiment. But Microsoft market cap is as of right now 3.9 Trillion. Not 5 billion.

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    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.

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        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.

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    14 hours ago

    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.

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      18 hours ago

      Not really, the MMO model is ppm not ppp.

      The gamepass subscription already fits the MMO model.

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        18 hours ago

        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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      Well that would explain why I’ve never seen an MMO streamer before. At least not since Leeroy.