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
Companies using “Got It” to dismiss their invasive popups makes me so irrationally angry.
I hate “Maybe later” even more
Where’s the “Fuck off” option??
They are all maybe later. Regardless of the wording…
With MS especially.
I’ve had to put “I don’t like deals” in a popup close button before. I hated working in web marketing.
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.
(The pop-up also breaks the fingerprint reader prompt for extra annoyance)
I switched to KeePassDX for this reason among others.
App -> Display -> Never ever ask for a donation
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’
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.
And I definitely didn’t “get it”, either. I buttoned through as fast as possible so I could use what I wanted to use.
Surprised this isn’t like three verification cans.
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
That understand gamers about as much as you understand marketing. It’s about percentages. If they get some small percentage to buy the subscription, it’s a win. It matters absolutely nothing how many people are irritated by the ad.
lmfao ads on boot on a console you bought?
that’s so fucked. glad I’m not getting back into console gaming
Oh boy wait until I tell you about windows 11™ and all its amazing features!
Running SteamOS on my living room gaming PC. There are more options than windows 11.
I also just installed pop os on my 2021 laptop that was struggling with windows 11. It breathed new life into it. The computer is now as snappy as when I first got it
I’m gonna have to “upgrade” at work soon and it’s going to suck
I got a new computer with win11 a year or so ago. I made them buy me a win10 license because I couldn’t do my job anymore. fucking file explorer doesn’t even work on win11. astounding
Fuck the closed console. Do not throw all the computational power away.
Why not just have a button that says “give us more money, you fat piece of shit?”
That’s currently in QA as we speak… Slated to go live Q1 2026.
Microsoft? QA? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
…and they want to compete with the Steam Deck?
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.
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.
lmao imagine giving MS money in 2025
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
Why? It doesn’t cost them anything to flip that bit on hardware that you own.
If there’s a way to activate dev mode without paying them I don’t know about it
Sorry, my comment wasn’t clear. I’m just saying that it’s total bullshit that they would charge for that.
I’m in full agreement there, but at least it’s a small one-off payment to just use it the way I want to rather than playing cat-and-mouse with hacks and software updates
Huh? Just get an old Dell optiplex tower on Ebay or Craigslist and install Batocera on it. It’d probably cost a similar amount
I already own an Xbox, there’s no earthly way that buying an old anything would be cheaper than paying the small developer mode activation charge for the console I already have (bought second hand a few years ago from a friend who had used it 3 times)
I kinda wish I had a gamepass subscription so I could enjoy cancelling it, but alas, I’ve already cancelled everything.
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.
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.
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.
- 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.”–
Thanks for this. So annoying.
Yeah, I play all the time and noticed this just a few weeks back. I fuckin hate it
“Please drink a verification can of Mt Dew Game Fuel™ and belch your Social Security number to continue”
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.
I actually stepped my subscription tier down because of the price increase on Ultimate. Wasn’t worth the 50% jump for me.
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.
Xbox has been dead since the launch of series x. Sell it and get off the train before the systems worth nothing.
Head over to LinkedIn and contact the culprit directly. Choose your words wisely, as they’ll certainly block you before you can get to your second barrage of abuse.
