Technology

And it's this kind of shit that has ruined my love for tech. It's all soulless dystopian slop they want you paying for monthly for the rest of your life. Fuck all these techno dweebs. It's a shame all the normies will go along with this...

I've called this so many times over... It's not just going to be xbox... it's going to be PCs in general, With AI data centers raising up the price on all hardware, They are already making moves in the government on banning routers. The plan is going to be for personal computers and hardware to leave the world. Either price them out of consumer reach or flat out outlaw them. We get thin clients like stadia, Luna etc... Actually having a personal computer capable of running software itself will be considered a national security threat. Why wouldn't you keep your stuff in the cloud where the government can audit it, companies can make sure you aren't pirating or running unapproved illegal LLMs that could make bombs etc...

Rent-seeking is definitely a sign of a financially-healthy company. Yup. No red flags there.

Microsoft has reinvented the arcade, except this time you buy the game first and then feed the machine quarters to play it. Next up: a premium tier that lets you pause without the meter running. At this rate, Xbox’s most profitable game will be watching customers try to escape the billing screen.

I've never paid a cent to stream anything. There's all kinds of streaming everything that wants me to pay money to stream their shit. Guess what? No.

You can do it now. You'll be able to do it in the future too. Movies, games, makes no difference. There are several lifetimes worth of games you can play without capitulating to the stupid late-stage capitalist bullshit that's going on in this moment.

And it's not always easy. I recently purchased a copy of Max Payne 3, a 14 year old game, because it was on sale for $7. After downloading, I discovered that it required me to register an account with Rockstar to play the single player campaign. I uninstalled it and got it refunded. I intend to pirate it now, out of spite.

Fuck these corporations. Don't contribute to them. There's plenty of other shit to do and there always will be.

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.

They can fuck right off...

Microsoft wants to never sell another product to me again? Fine

Important point of clarification- this is about streaming from the cloud, using an Xbox or GPU in the cloud to play the game. This makes sense as buying the game or not, you are still using cloud resources.

Xbox Remote Play, which runs the game on your home Xbox and streams from your house to wherever you are, is free.

On top of the purchase price? Yikes, no thank you.

They can want it as much as they like, they can fuck off.

Xbox Developers: Hell yeah! Playstation is shooting themselves in the foot. All we have to do is sit back and we'll kill it.

Xbox Business : or.... hold my beer.

Jesus. I'm like all in on indie studios and old games. I don't need this bullshit in my life. It's already too much if a headache to comprehend what's possibly worth it or not when you pay by the month or the hour to try and figure out budgets and so on. Cancel it all, play the old shit and pirate the rest.

>laughs in piracy

How about I never """buy""" a game again from you Microsoft?

Get absolutely fucked.

This is why I am amassing a library of games and media that can all be consumed locally. The day that becomes the default is the day I stop paying for any of that. I don’t need “the new thing” or “you must watch this”. I have plenty of stuff to keep me entertained till the end of time.

The bitch is going to be components but I’m making sure I can work with things across multiple generations and have spares just in case.

Wow, I almost reflexively downvoted this post just because I hate it so much

Computers could have been so cool, instead they're all just becoming shitty slot machines.

Fuck everything about that. Fuck that to hell and back again not a hobbits tale.

Piracy Stonks

Back in my day it was called an arcade video game.

They did it, they made something worse than google Stadia!

Linux sever at home + sunshine for stream. MS can eat a dick.

And we've come full circle back to arcades. Just with extra(fewer?) steps now.

Fuck Microsoft

That is just the intro price. Soon with will be $5 an hour and go up from there if you want a "premium" experience.