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eicker@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days ago

Microsoft Patents Technique for Inserting Ads Into Videogames While You’re Playing Them.

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Microsoft Patents Technique for Inserting Ads Into Videogames While You’re Playing Them.

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eicker@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days ago
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Microsoft Patents Technique for Inserting Ads Into Videogames While You're Playing Them
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Microsoft recently patented a new piece of "ad credit" software aimed at serving gamers sponsored content at predictable times.
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  • horus_son_of_isis@lemmy.world
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    So anyway, archery is cheap, fun, and there are no ads.

    • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.ca
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      Practice your archery on ads

      • rabidhamster@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        On advertisers

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h9wStdPkQY

        • setVeryLoud(true);@lemmy.ca
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          Even better! I miss the days where people would holler ads. You could punch them!

          • horus_son_of_isis@lemmy.world
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            “Hey man, I’m just the messenger!”

            “exactly.”

      • horus_son_of_isis@lemmy.world
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        nah chupacabruuuh, I have my target set up in the woods away from the bullshit. Or at the virtually-unused public archery range. There are ads there, and they’re ads for businesses that actually paid to build the thing, which is different from ad revenue for the sake of ad revenue TO MAXIMIZE PROFITS. Brody I’m so fuckin tired.

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    Places that advertisers have not yet turned into a vehicle for ads:

    • Radio
    • TV
    • Movies
    • The Internet
    • Video Games
    • Classical Fine Art
    • The Moon / Space
    • Grave Markers/ Headstones
    • Inside Eyelids
    • Your Baby’s Smile
    • Brain Implants
    • ɔiƚoxɘup@infosec.pub
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      I’d say this is close enough for you to strike another off your list. https://nichefacts.com/findagrave/

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    I’m bout to invent a patent called I’m not gonna play anything that microslop has its sloppy little hands in.

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    Guess I’ll just keep sailing the high seas. Someone let me know when businesses want to act with some semblance of good faith to their customers.

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    Just don’t play Microsoft games. They crippled or outright destroyed all their former good game studios anyway. So it’s not like they will be making great games you can’t live without anyway.

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    Just use an OS that does not do this.

    • Killer@lemmy.world
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      Steam banned having to watch an ad before being able to play a game last year

      https://www.gamespot.com/articles/valve-seemingly-bans-all-steam-games-that-require-watching-advertisements-to-play/1100-6529356/

    • horus_son_of_isis@lemmy.world
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      Done. No ragerts

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      on an Xbox ?

      • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip
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        If you are using an xbox, you kind of deserve this.

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        What use is an Xbox nowadays? And who said that Microsoft will not use the same “feature” on Windows?

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    We trully live in an Age of Technological Devolution.

    And Environmental Devolution.

    And Political Devolution.

    And Economic Devolution.

    But the richer have never before been this rich.

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    Never more proud of my decision to drop Xbox in favor of my Steam Deck.

    Like it just keeps getting better and better

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    I have a free use method of avoiding these charges where I don’t use microsoft

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    There’s no fucking way that doesn’t have prior art

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    Move to Bazzite. https://bazzite.gg/

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      It’s not the OS doing it, it’s the game itself adding the ads to pause screens, loading screens, etc.

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        Ditch Windows anyway.

        Honorable mention for Nobara Linux. 👾🎮

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    Microsoft patents technique for me not buying another game from them ever

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    Its so amazing that we had so many routes to make things better and better. Technology promised such an amazing future. Of course, greed ruined that and here we are. We fumbled the bag people…

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      not we the epstein class did this.

  • Kazel@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Worth a watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Smwo493IAfw

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    EA did this years ago

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