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
Surprised this isn’t like three verification cans.
Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced
Submitted 19 hours ago by simple@piefed.social to games@lemmy.world
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AtariDump@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 18 hours ago
Oh that is gonna piss people off.
Your ads ar 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.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Your ads are not gonna work the way you think they’ll work
They’re banking on people too young 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.
waterSticksToMyBalls@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
You might be able to open the remote and put a sticker over the netflix buttons contacts on the pcb
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 16 hours ago
Yes. And that shit is a one-way door.
Every customer you piss off the way you are pissed off, is A LOT less likely to be a return customer.
artyom@piefed.social 16 hours ago
It will work. Even if they get 10 new subscribers, it probably took them 20 minutes to whip up this splash screen. They’re wasting much more of your time. And people have proven time and time again that they will get outraged but they’ll never actually do anything about it. They won’t stop playing Xbox. They won’t stop buying games. People grow increasingly accepting of advertising and invasive business practices every day. Remember how angry everyone was at horse armor? Most people wouldn’t think twice about it these days. It’s so much worse now.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 14 hours ago
It will work. Even if they get 10 new subscribers, it probably took them 20 minutes to whip up this splash screen. They’re wasting much more of your time. And people have proven time and time again that they will get outraged but they’ll never actually do anything about it.
For now. But eventually they do. That’s how entire governments have fallen time and time again.
They won’t stop playing Xbox. They won’t stop buying games. People grow increasingly accepting of advertising and invasive business practices every day.
Indeed. People can get used to a lot. But being used to something isn’t the same as being ok with it. No-one I know is ok with there being ads on their tvs, phones and laptops. Living with something isn’t the same as accepting it. People are tolerating more BS than ever, but that doesn’t mean they wont rally the second there’s a way out of it.
Remember how angry everyone was at horse armor? Most people wouldn’t think twice about it these days. It’s so much worse now.
I still am. So are many others. Remember when people thought NMS would be a good game on day one? Remember when Fallout 76 was going to be bigger and better than 4? Remember Concord? Remember when Overwatch was going to have a story?
Every fuckup, is another portion of the masses getting the memo. And the fuckups aren’t stopping. If anything there’s more of them than ever.
These corporations used to be afraid of looking bad, but mistakes happen. Except when they did, and stocks didn’t suddenly implode, their takeaway was they could horrible, and still make a profit. Because yeah, most people don’t learn the first time. But what about the second? Or the third? Or the tenth?
If you ask me, given time, the one thing every person on this planet can do, is learn. Eventually.
The only reason Roblox and Fortnite keep growing is that there are markets they haven’t penetrated. Finding new customers faster than the old ones leave doesn’t work forever. There are only so many humans on this planet.
Meanwhile, indie games with actual passion behind them and fair business practices that still feed the mouths of the devs, without private equity firms in the middle sucking up all the value, are absolutely exploding.
XBOX is dying. MS won’t say it, but they are less involved in the game-industry than ever. This price hike is a death-throw. Not the next step in their master plan to dominate the market forever.
IMO, the only gaming mega-corporation with the goodwill to exist 20 years from now is Nintendo, and even they are burning through the nostalgia people have for them faster than ever before in their insanely long history.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
lmfao ads on boot on a console you bought?
that’s so fucked. glad I’m not getting back into console gaming
winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 hours ago
Oh boy wait until I tell you about windows 11™ and all its amazing features!
007ace@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
Running SteamOS on my living room gaming PC. There are more options than windows 11.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 15 hours ago
Why not jist have a button that says “give us more money, you fat piece of shit?”
quackerjo@lemmy.wtf 14 hours ago
That’s currently in QA as we speak… Slated to go live Q1 2026.
JustARegularNerd@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
…and they want to compete with the Steam Deck?
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
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.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
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.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 18 hours ago
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
baines@lemmy.cafe 18 hours ago
lmao imagine giving MA money in 2025
LuckingFurker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 hours ago
I mean, I’ll give them some money to activate developer mode so I can install emulators on my Xbox. I don’t need emulators on my Xbox but it’s gonna sit there doing nothing otherwise because I’m not paying for Gamepass
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Why? It doesn’t cost them anything to flip that bit on hardware that you own.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 10 hours ago
Huh? Just get an old Dell optiplex tower on Ebay or Craigslist and install Batocera on it. It’d probably cost a similar amount
eatCasserole@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I kinda wish I had a gamepass subscription so I could enjoy cancelling it, but alas, I’ve already cancelled everything.
Zahille7@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
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.
ryper@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
- 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.”–
OmegaMan@lemmings.world 13 hours ago
Thanks for this. So annoying.
Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 hours ago
Yeah, I play all the time and noticed this jist a few weeks back. I fuckin hate it
Master167@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
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.
fuzzywombat@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
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.
Eh_I@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
“Please drink a verification can of Mt Dew Game Fuel™ and belch your Social Security number to continue”
W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
I used to get something like all the time, even when I already paid for Game Pass.
NavySqueal@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
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.
Veedem@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I actually stepped my subscription tier down because of the price increase on Ultimate. Wasn’t worth the 50% jump for me.
Aviandelight@mander.xyz 14 hours ago
I did too. As much as I hate MS, Xbox live is really our only way to play with our friends (who live all over the world because my husband is a night owl). I got Ultimate for giggles and it turned out my husband games so much it was a good deal. It’s definitely not at the new price. I personally have only used the console to play Minecraft over the last two years since I can’t get Bedrock on my steam deck without some major fuckery.
TwinTitans@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Xbox has been dead since the launch of series x. Sell it and get off the train before the systems worth nothing.
myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
I rarely boot up my Xbox anymore. Is it bad that I’m thinking about buying the games I want on a different system just to avoid using the Xbox at all?
dellish@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
If they’re single-player can’t you just disconnect from the internet? I haven’t turned on my xbox in 4 years. I remember the day clearly: I wanted to replay Call of Duty 4 and the xbox told me I had to buy the new Remastered version in order to play. Bitch I already paid for the game, why would I buy it again?? Turned off, never to be seen again.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 11 hours ago
Counterpoint: yar har fiddle dee dee
Gullible@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
Head over to LinkedIn and contact the culprit directly. Choose your words wisely, as they’ll certainly block you get to your second barrage of abuse.
West_of_West@piefed.social 18 hours ago
I’m a pessimist. The price increase won’t hurt them unless they lose more than 33% of the user base. Which is a big number of people choosing to change a habit/lifestyle.
Even if they do lose that amount, they could walk back the 50% and wait a few months and “only” increase it by 20%. People will feel good that they owned the big corpo and the big corpo still manages to increase profit.
don@lemmy.ca 17 hours ago
Not content with shooting themselves in one foot, they go for the other. Knees are next, for those wondering.
carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 hours ago
stop paying for xbox & microsoft stuff, your conscience will thank you
kosanovskiy@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Lol add on xbox. Is it possible to add a ad guard DNS to it block these like with Samsung tv?
datavoid@sh.itjust.works 13 hours ago
There is no way an Xbox would continue to work after blocking MS servers
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Depends on the host name, I’m sure there is a PiHole blocklist out in the wild but likely only targets telemetry.
ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
If it connects to the internet, you can change the DNS to whatever you want it to be. If Tim over at Apple had his way I’m sure he’d force his ‘i’ devices to use a “secure Apple DNS” server.
nao@sh.itjust.works 17 hours ago
Do you get this once or on every boot?
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
Very likely once…in a while, like that stupid fullscreen win11 ads on win10.
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
who cares… it’ll always end up with more and more and more. stop giving any justification to companies for this bullshit. don’t even question it anymore, one ad is more then enough to throw the thing in the trash and never consider them a source of entertainment ever again.
nao@sh.itjust.works 16 hours ago
Not justifying it, something that I paid for should not show ads. But there isn’t a current mainstream console that doesn’t have ads, so getting it once would still be better than getting it on every boot.
lilja@lemmy.ml 18 hours ago
Companies using “Got It” to dismiss their invasive popups makes me so irrationally angry.
breakingcups@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I hate “Maybe later” even more
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
Where’s the “Fuck off” option??
Rooster326@programming.dev 16 hours ago
They are all maybe later. Regardless of the wording…
MisterCurtis@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
I’ve had to put “I don’t like deals” in a popup close button before. I hated working in web marketing.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
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.
Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
well I don’t… it’s never a deal, and I’m usually forced to buy more and spend more in order to get that ‘deal’
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
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.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
And I definitely didn’t “get it”, either. I buttoned through as fast as possible so I could use what I wanted to use.