Microsoft keeps finding innovative ways to make owning its products feel like renting them. You buy the Xbox, buy the game, maybe pay for Game Pass, and Microsoft still patents a way to interrupt you with ads. At this rate, the final boss will be a 30 second unskippable commercial.

Isn’t there some kind of group that patents awful ideas so nobody else can use them?

Damn, by patenting it they’re actually doing us all a huge favor.

Everyone will simply avoid microsoft games and no other gaming company can copy their stupid ideas.

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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.

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

I’d patent my well-honed technique for not playing Microsoft games but I want to share it with the world, free of charge.

So anyway, archery is cheap, fun, and there are no ads.

That’s So Microsoft!™

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.

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

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

EA did this years ago

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…

Just use an OS that does not do this.

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