Xbox Is Limiting Cloud Gaming To 15 Hours Per Month For Ultimate Subscribers, Which Averages Out To 30 Minutes Per Day
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That doesn't sound very "ultimate"
They mean ultimate as in this is the last gaming effort from them and they’re ready to throw in the towel
"Why would anyone play video games for more than 30 minutes a day?"
-Microsoft, apparently
"640k ought to be enough [memory] for anybody. "
So, how long until they shove ads in for an extra hour of playtime?
"Drink Mt. Dew can for verification"
Verification can not recognized. Drink verification can.
The ads will probably count towards your streaming time.
Don’t give them IDs
Ideas? Trust me, they’re already thinking of it. Sharma has been talking about how gaming is becoming too expensive for consumers and that’s code for “get ready for ads and financing” as far as I’m concerned
Which is crazy given the price of gaming has steadily dropped on console.
"Because of the growing cost as more people use it for longer"
What's the over/under that the real reason is they're scavenging some of the servers for Copilot?
All the server Costs skyrocketing because of slop. We had it all man. 24/7 walmarts, $1 mcchickens, 30 dollar tb HDDs.
"Back in my day we had better tech for less."
"Whooooah! Tell us more about past times, grand papa! What was a terabyte like? Did you have your own console too?"
"Why, yes. In our living rooms. I actually had two, but many people had more."
"Whoooooah!"
I can answer factually. It's parts scarcity. They can't repair them. In fact, nothing is getting repaired right now. Just harvested from prod to go back into prod in another cluster. Source? I'd violate NDA.
Great example of why cloud gaming should never be a thing.
It could have been a thing if AI craze did not happen. Servers and pretty much all HW in general was steadily getting cheap as chips so this idea wasn't insane at all. Being able to play AAA game on mid range mobile while taking the dump? But thinking this could work in current economy? No, no, no...
That should be more than enough screen time for any gamer living a healthy balanced lifestyle. ^/s^
“healthy balanced lifestyle”
…in this economy?
Just go out, touch and eat grass. You can't afford anything else.
Yet they want all of it to go to cloud gaming, 15 hours is nothing.
anyone who gives money for this garbage deserves to get fucked
Guess I deserve that… -.-
Wow… fxxk ALL of that noise. Literally the only remaining sub I still have and Microsoft is going to push me off of that, too? Fine. Fxxk you, Microsoft.
Whats the point of putting xx instead of uc? I understand not wanting to swear, but this is still swearing
Yeah, I’m not really sure. I set up text replacement to do that on my phone a long time ago and I’ve never changed it. Can’t remember why I did it in the first place. It’s the same for bxtch, sxxt, a$$, and dxxn.
dxxn?
sxxt?
fxxk yxs
What the fuck am I supposed to do the rest of my weekend?
When does this shit start, I was stashing a few month long codes for a rainy gaming session.
This is a feature I never used on Gamepass. I’ll continue to intermittently subscribe to play the big titles for a significant discount. If you don’t need to own absolutely everything that you play, the service still makes sense.
Certainly glad I only played Halo Campaign Evolved on GP because that game was not worth $50.
Hoping Gears of War is better but I’ll still only play it on GP.
My significant discount is to wait a couple years for a 70% off sale on steam and be able to play it years later when i want XD
I doubt it will be worth it. I honestly thought it was a pretty awful experience performance wise. MCC is far and away the better way to play Halo.
Makes sense, doubt anyone who has time to play games daily really wants to stream