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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 54688

Microsoft has published a U.S. patent application that describes pausing games to show ads after natural breaks such as boss fights, cutscenes, quests, and multiplayer rounds.

The filing, US 2026/0260258 A1 and titled Contextually Aware Management of Interactive Software Application Access, was filed on April 23, 2026 and pub...

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gx-x · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 2676

As long as we are warned in advance, we can skip the telemarketer slop. M$ is really trying hard to be hated as much as possible. Do they not see Steam OS and other applications that run games under different Linux distros?! I guess they are still counting that as <1% of users. That is going to change, it already is.

Csimbi · Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2026 8:11 pm Post subject:

I did not buy any MS games before an it won't help their case.
Pathetic, lol
BTW, this patent should not have been granted, it is not a novel idea.

gx-x · Elite Member Joined: 02 Jul 2007 Posts: 2676

It's granted because it has a new business model behind it. I guess the first step in the patent starts with "microsoft windows" and it makes it unique to boot.

PS. You didn't get it - all games running under windows OS will now be subject to be interrupted with ads.
What do you mean "didn't buy any MS games" ? Ads will be served in any game under windows.

NakedFaerie · Elite Member Joined: 26 May 2013 Posts: 315

They need to realise we are paying them money already.
They add ads they need to make a free tier and add those ads to the free service.
PAID means NO ADS. They add ads, we stop paying. Easy as that.

They add ads, we disconnect and go fully offline.
PCs are looking a lot better these days. Get a PC, make it offline and enjoy your games your way with NO ads.
They add ads, you remove them. use ads blockers etc.
They are going too far here.

heretic · Site Admin Joined: 27 May 2004 Posts: 2886

Honestly, it’s all starting to make me feel pretty sick. The world is getting greedier and greedier, and it’s getting worse every day. I wish I could go back to the early 90s - no internet, no mobile phones. We were all better off then.

Those old games—the ones where you could play over LAN at most—were more than enough for me. I still love playing Warzone 2100, Quake, and the like. Sure, modern games have beautiful graphics and sound; they look amazing. But I don't feel like they're any more fun than things used to be. Plus, before you can even play, you have to keep paying for something, and then once you actually own the game, they want you to pay all over again. It’s a totally fucked-up world, really. Smile