“Loading a gif at runtime” wow, such innovation.
Pretty sure Gates of Galoo has prior art too
Move to Bazzite. https://bazzite.gg/
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.
Isn’t there some kind of group that patents awful ideas so nobody else can use them?
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.
The only winning move for the final boss is to put down the controller and go outside.
Love it!
They fucked themselves when they went on their buying spree of studios. Their idea was literally that they would own every game studio, making a GamePass a necessity that they could charge whatever they wanted for.
Their quest inflated the price of every subsequent studio they acquired, leading them to take on so much debt that they had to shutter the studios they’d just purchased, and now they have to make a ton of money on every game–but that’s not how games work.
Just capitalism things…
That’s So Microsoft!™
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.
Based
Fuck yeah, this is going to save some serious time. Will cut down the non video game ad watching time I need to do by a lot probably.
such periodic breaks can be placed at a variety of predictable times in the content without adversely affecting the user experience,” the Microsoft patent declares.
The experience is very much affected I would say… But that’s only me…
I’d patent my well-honed technique for not playing Microsoft games but I want to share it with the world, free of charge.
You guys do know a patent isn’t a declaration to implement it?
Like you know that Sony TV ad patent that gets brought up every now and then as “The dystopian future of watching TV”. Yeah that was in 2009.
