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Microsoft patents system to freeze games and inject ads during downtimes — watching commercials earns ad-free playtime credits (www.tomshardware.com)
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[–] Wooki@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

lol mobile platforms have been doing this for what decades at this point.

Lmfao

[–] AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

There is a reason why mobile gaming is mostly garbage.

[–] Goforce5@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Mostly? I havent found a single mobile game I can tolerate other than my GBA emulator.

[–] AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip 4 points 13 hours ago

Yeah, and there's a reason a lot of us are unlikely to even try them. If I still bought consoles, the first one that did this would be the last I ever bought, and I'm not buying it if it's like that from the start.