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sanitation@lemmy.today to PC Master Race@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

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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Microsoft patents system to freeze games and inject ads during downtimes — watching commercials earns ad-free playtime credits

www.tomshardware.com

sanitation@lemmy.today to PC Master Race@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago
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Is this patent a sign of things to come?
  • Jaysyn@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Microsoft makes games?

    • AustralianSimon@lemmy.world
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      22 hours ago

      They most recently bought Bethesda and ActivisionBlizzard.

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      22 hours ago

      They buy other companies that make games and then proceed to ruin everything about both.

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        18 hours ago

        Microsoft has actually been a game company since before they made Windows. Microsoft Flight simulator came out in the early 80s

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          16 hours ago

          Arguably not a “game” game, it’s a simulator.

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            16 hours ago

            Age of Empires I remember playing, Im sure there are others as well.

            Everyone always says the “fun fact” about minesweeper and solitare being made by Microsoft to ensure users learned how to point and click, left/right click, and drag and drop, but I would say that was more a means to an end than a video game development aim though.

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      23 hours ago

      From the looks of this patent, no.

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