• clearedtoland@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I seriously thought I must’ve accidentally clicked an icon or prompt while starting up that showed that full screen ad.

    Intrusive, invasive and dystopian. I don’t even play CoD!

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      1 year ago

      Dude same, first Roku started putting ads on the main menu and now Microsoft is pulling bullshit. Just another reminder that we don’t actually own anything anymore

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        1 year ago

        You know! That’s what I was originally going to comment but wasn’t sure it’d make sense. Purchasing a product just means another way to sell to you nowadays. It’s ridiculous.

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      1 year ago

      How do the people working fore Microsoft even come up with this shit? Do they not play Xbox? How are they not infuriated with every idea like this that they come up with?

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        1 year ago

        Ambitious exec promotion candidate has an idea, senior executive sees idea and sponsors it as they believe it will make them money, JIRA lands in dev backlog, devs moan about it, devs like having jobs, devs implement.

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      1 year ago

      I thought about buying an xbox to install kodi on and play some games on the big screen. But when i saw their new trash ad interface and now this, i’ll never buy any of their shit again.

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    1 year ago

    I honestly don’t understand why anyone buys major-publisher games anymore. There are indie games that are at least as good and that come without the garbage.

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      Most indie games just don’t draw me in. They’re usually missing some major mechanic that ruins it for me. I also enjoy quality graphics, and in my experience, that’s the first thing to go with an indie developer.

      That’s not to say I haven’t found some I enjoy (bastion, sea of stars, stardew valley), but most of the time they just don’t do it for me.

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      The games industry got fucking huge and most people are just mindless consumers who buy whatever is advertised to them. It sounds crazy, but people buy these $70 games, buy the ‘deluxe’ editions for almost double, then buy loads of cosmetics in game. And they do it every year. All these companies are going to do is milk this mindset, so triple A will never change.

      Indie, as you say, is the way to go. Actual games made by passionate people, with (most of the time) no bullshit attached.

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        Why mindless? Why can’t I enjoy a multi-player arcade shooter without being called mindless?

        I almost exclusively play AAA games, with the occasional indie in between. The indies I play are basically all the famous ones that got really big.

        It’s my entertainment, my time. Why call me mindless? The only issue Lemmy has, this whole “rebel without a cause” attitude against everything that is mainstream :)

        A friend of mine is a top level director on a recent AAA game that wasn’t very well received. I can assure you, he was very passionate about his game.

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          I think he was referring to people that mindlessly purchase and then complain, then repeat the cycle again… And again… Etc.

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            Fair enough. Even if I like cod, I’ll still bitch about the campaign this time around. It’s not original and not exciting at all. I still don’t regret getting it for the mp/zombies.

            Complaining is in human nature :p

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          Sorry, I wasnt calling people mindless, you are right that anyone can enjoy whatever they want. I was referring to ‘mindless consumerism’, where people arent really frugal and just buy whatever thing the big companies want to you to buy.

          And the passion thing, obviously theres a lot of passionate people at big studios, but the leads of such places usually dont and bring it all down in the name of profit for them and their shareholders. Triple A is a money making machine, there’s not a lot of innovation there anymore and a lot of the games are very unimaginative, regardless of how passionate the individual developers are.

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            No worries. Thx for your thoughtful reply. I understand your point now and certainly don’t disagree with it.

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          Uno reverse on the troll claim. 2010 and 2011 were smurfing for triple A releases. I don’t think any year since has held up to that era.

  • LifeOfChance@lemmy.world
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    I know we all don’t want to accept it but the truth is this will work. Until whales stop existing things like this will be around. These companies are forcing advertisements in every part of our lives and now they aren’t even trying to be sly about it.