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The fun never ends. Clearly xbox is failing so they are trying their hardest to extract as much money as possible from whoever still hasnt sold their console yet
I used to get something like all the time, even when I already paid for Game Pass.
Surprised this isn’t like three verification cans.
lmfao ads on boot on a console you bought?
that's so fucked. glad I'm not getting back into console gaming
Oh boy wait until I tell you about windows 11™ and all its amazing features!
I'm gonna have to "upgrade" at work soon and it's going to suck
I got a new computer with win11 a year or so ago. I made them buy me a win10 license because I couldn't do my job anymore. fucking file explorer doesn't even work on win11. astounding
Running SteamOS on my living room gaming PC. There are more options than windows 11.
I also just installed pop os on my 2021 laptop that was struggling with windows 11. It breathed new life into it. The computer is now as snappy as when I first got it
50% price hike means Microsoft is basically betting that less than 1/3 of the current subscribers will cancel. Microsoft is also betting that some will not cancel but just downgrade to lower tier instead. If more than 2/3 of the subscriber remain a subscriber then Microsoft will come out ahead.
Companies using "Got It" to dismiss their invasive popups makes me so irrationally angry.
I hate "Maybe later" even more
Where's the "Fuck off" option??
They are all maybe later. Regardless of the wording..
I've had to put "I don't like deals" in a popup close button before. I hated working in web marketing.
Keepass2Android shows a pop-up each October asking for donations. Perfectly fine, but the dismiss button is labeled "I don't like the app that much". Even free software isn't spared that sort of thing.
(The pop-up also breaks the fingerprint reader prompt for extra annoyance)
I switched to KeePassDX for this reason among others.
App -> Display -> Never ever ask for a donation
I'm personally a big fan of doing the very tiny semi-transparent (X) that's impossible to click on as far away from the "Yes, Please Digitally Fuck My Wallet Pussy" blinking blue bar at bottom center of the screen.
And I definitely didn't "get it", either. I buttoned through as fast as possible so I could use what I wanted to use.
Why not just have a button that says "give us more money, you fat piece of shit?"
That's currently in QA as we speak... Slated to go live Q1 2026.
...and they want to compete with the Steam Deck?
It's nice to see the LCD Deck get discounted, if only to relive the old days when consoles got cheaper instead of more expensive as time went on. I almost wanted to buy another one out of principle, even though I don't have use for more than one.
I lowkey considered getting a second SD, just to keep it plugged into my TV 24/7. I cart mine back and forth from work and home, and the minor inconvenience of packing it into my bag each morning had me considering a second purchase.
But then I remembered I’m fucking broke.
"Please drink a verification can of Mt Dew Game Fuel(TM) and belch your Social Security number to continue"
I hadn't even turned on my Xbox One in almost a year until I helped my brother set one up for his game room this past week.
Every time you go to play a game, it brings up an entire pop-up that looks like the store page for whatever you're trying to play, then you press "play." Like, it was entirely unnecessary adding an extra popup screen asking if yes, that's the game I want to play.
- On the Xbox home screen, go to "My Games and Apps."
- Then, go to "Apps," "Settings," "General," and "Personalization."
- Go to "Games and Apps," then scroll to the right until the three boxes below "Choose whether game hubs open automatically from the following places."
- Uncheck the boxes on all three options: "Recently Played List," "Groups," and "Installed Games."--
Thanks for this. So annoying.
Yeah, I play all the time and noticed this just a few weeks back. I fuckin hate it
Oh that is gonna piss people off.
Your ads are not gonna work the way you think they'll work, when every person who sees them is gonna feel like it's a middle finger.
Your ads are not gonna work the way you think they’ll work
They're banking on people too young/old to know how to navigate past the screen to accidentally sign up for shit.
My one-year-old son accidentally got ahold of my TV remote and signed me back up for Netflix by pushing random buttons a month ago. Had to go through the TV and scour it of all the little pre-installed buy-me apps to make sure that couldn't happen as easily again. Still not quite sure how to disable the "Netflix" button that's built into the remote, shy of carving it out with a knife.
What the fuck? Lol. They are not cartoony villains preying for the old and weak.
Somebody has made a calculation, that shows that they will make more money from people who takes the deal than they are going to loose money from people who get mad and leave their enviroment.
In the future they will do test how far they can go using a/b test and/or testing different markets.
You might be able to open the remote and put a sticker over the netflix buttons contacts on the pcb
That's a good idea. I'll see if I can make it work.
You got a love how out of touch these marketers are. They really do think that they understand gamers while sitting in meetings at the Redmond campus.
Oh we had mass cancellations yesterday! War room, what do we do?
Full page ad?
Brilliant! Gamers will obviously see the value and be grateful for it. Maybe now we won't all be laid off by papa Satya
These Full Screen ads are the reason I do not own a Xbox Series X and I'm not upgrading to Windows 11.
I'm turning on my console to do use it for streaming or gaming. Anything that gets in the way of going to be vilified.
I actually stepped my subscription tier down because of the price increase on Ultimate. Wasn’t worth the 50% jump for me.
Xbox has been dead since the launch of series x. Sell it and get off the train before the systems worth nothing.
Extremely scummy to not even list the price, but I shouldn't be surprised since it appears they are going to milk whoever still has autosub on for an extra 10 bucks.
I rarely boot up my Xbox anymore. Is it bad that I’m thinking about buying the games I already own on Xbox, on a different system just to avoid using the Xbox at all?
Edit to clarify