I’m more worried that I lost my customisation abilities, rather than ads per se.
Why should they? You bought something from Microsoft, you get something in Microsoft quality. Phoning home your underwear size and sexual preferences and selecting the most intrusive ads for you included.
Cause ads are acceptable only if we don’t pay, otherwise we are paying to be the product.
even worse, we pay the console, the games (which aren’t cheap in the slightest) and the Gold to play online!
Well, if the paying customer can also be sold off for extra cash, the more profit to them! And probably bigger bonuses for the higher-ups.
True, that doesn’t make it any better or right in any way obviously
Get a Steam Deck, they don’t have ads
I started a new job where I travel a lot, and I’m wanting one more and more.
How do you like it?
My brother has it and he travels a lot, he loves it. Before that he had to carry his gaming pc around, which was a brick
They’re not going anywhere. It’s another revenue stream for Xbox and the majority of users don’t care about them.
Imagine paying 500 bucks for a console just for it to be filled with ads. Wtf
I shouldn’t be surprised though since they pull the same crap for 4k+ tvs
And directly in windows….
Linux/macos gang moment
Pi-hole still seems to block them
This is the way…
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The default block list appeared to be enough, I actually had to unblock a few domains for online gaming to work correctly. Have not had ads in the dash since I added the pi-hole to my network around two years ago.
Ultimately you will have to accept that you don’t ‘own’ your Xbox. None of us do. Microsoft does, and you paid $500 for the hardware, which they can decide to brick remotely at any time.
This is the tradeoff between console and PC. Console is significantly cheaper but you don’t get any control over it.
Ads are never going away, and will likely only get more intrusive until people start hitting their breaking points.
Microsoft owns most gaming PCs, too, with Windows which is increasingly ad-ridden. The existence of some Linux-based alternatives is still a small percentage compared to Microsoft’s dominance here.
Yeah, they really ought to be getting cracked down upon by governments for their monopoly on desktop computing.
Simply opening directX would solve a lot of problems with gaming.
Almost every game I’ve tried to run on steam on linux, has worked. (though tbf, I don’t play multiplayer games).
It really is worth at least giving it a try nowadays. You might be surprised
I agree in principle. I’ve used Wine for games for a long time. Popular games usually worked even 15 years ago.
