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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
“Would?” They’re already doing that.
So much for free markets, eh? More like, we’ll invade or sanction whoever to have freedom in their markets, but the instant our markets can’t compete, all of a sudden regulation is good.
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.
Where is the line for gamers? They think you’re marks.
Classic
They did it, they made something worse than google Stadia!
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.
Yeah, back in my day the games came on a cassette tape. Sometimes the tapes got tangled up or broke, but when you bought it, you owned it.
Oh, and you’d get those magazines with pages of code for a game - you’d spend a day typing it in and never be able to figure out the tiny error you’d made.
Actually, games are so much better these days. It’s just unfortunate that capitalism.
game streaming. Can no one read?
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.
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.
Well that would explain why I’ve never seen an MMO streamer before. At least not since Leeroy.
wanting and getting dont always happen
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.
The consumer will gobble this up like hot bread and then ask “but why things bad? Must be immigrants”
Shitty behaviour by a shitty species
You underestimate how much people don’t like metered charges.
Isn’t this just free on both pc and playstation?
They can have my longest finger while I game on Cachy
