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lazynooblet, do games w this level is amazing
@lazynooblet@lazysoci.al avatar

Is it worth playing this now in 2025? It’s on my “bought but never loaded” list

Eh_I, do games w Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced
@Eh_I@lemmy.world avatar

“Please drink a verification can of Mt Dew Game Fuel™ and belch your Social Security number to continue”

kosanovskiy, do games w Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced

Lol add on xbox. Is it possible to add a ad guard DNS to it block these like with Samsung tv?

datavoid,

There is no way an Xbox would continue to work after blocking MS servers

ohshit604,
@ohshit604@sh.itjust.works avatar

Depends on the host name, I’m sure there is a PiHole blocklist out in the wild but likely only targets telemetry.

ohshit604,
@ohshit604@sh.itjust.works avatar

If it connects to the internet, you can change the DNS to whatever you want it to be. If Tim over at Apple had his way I’m sure he’d force his ‘i’ devices to use a “Secure Apple DNS Pro™️” server.

TwinTitans, do games w Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced
@TwinTitans@lemmy.world avatar

Xbox has been dead since the launch of series x. Sell it and get off the train before the systems worth nothing.

Zahille7, do games w Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced

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.

Madzielle,

Yeah, I play all the time and noticed this jist a few weeks back. I fuckin hate it

ryper,

You can disable that

  • 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.”–
OmegaMan,

Thanks for this. So annoying.

Kolanaki, do games w Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced
@Kolanaki@pawb.social avatar

Why not just have a button that says “give us more money, you fat piece of shit?”

quackerjo,

That’s currently in QA as we speak… Slated to go live Q1 2026.

Veedem, do games w Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced
@Veedem@lemmy.world avatar

I actually stepped my subscription tier down because of the price increase on Ultimate. Wasn’t worth the 50% jump for me.

Aviandelight,
@Aviandelight@mander.xyz avatar

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.

carotte, do games w Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced

stop paying for xbox & microsoft stuff, your conscience will thank you

myfunnyaccountname, do games w Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced

I rarely boot up my Xbox anymore. Is it bad that I’m thinking about buying the games I already own on Xbox, on a different system just to avoid using the Xbox at all?

Edit to clarify

dellish,

If they’re single-player can’t you just disconnect from the internet? I haven’t turned on my xbox in 4 years. I remember the day clearly: I wanted to replay Call of Duty 4 and the xbox told me I had to buy the new Remastered version in order to play. Bitch I already paid for the game, why would I buy it again?? Turned off, never to be seen again.

JustARegularNerd, do games w Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced

…and they want to compete with the Steam Deck?

samus12345,
@samus12345@sh.itjust.works avatar

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.

Master167, do games w Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced

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.

nao, do games w Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced

Do you get this once or on every boot?

Fiivemacs,

who cares… it’ll always end up with more and more and more. stop giving any justification to companies for this bullshit. don’t even question it anymore, one ad is more then enough to throw the thing in the trash and never consider them a source of entertainment ever again.

nao,

Not justifying it, something that I paid for should not show ads. But there isn’t a current mainstream console that doesn’t have ads, so getting it once would still be better than getting it on every boot.

Fiivemacs,

getting it once and not pushing back, means you’ll get it twice… then three times… then anytime you boot. then anytime you load a game, then while you’re playing a game.

you’re being raped and justifying it because ‘it could be worse’

like you said, something you paid for should not show ads, yet it is…

skulblaka,
@skulblaka@sh.itjust.works avatar

My Steam Deck doesn’t serve me ads. Not even the on-boot sale pop up that desktop Steam gives.

CaptainBasculin,

its interface puts anything steam related to the top, so in a sense it is advertising itself.

Let’s say you’re planning to get Silksong. You could buy it off from GOG by switching to desktop mode, running Heroic, searching back the game and buy it. Alternatively you can just search it on Steam and buy there with no previous steps.

jjjalljs,

You can turn that one on desktop off, btw

MellowYellow13,

Shocking my SteamDeck and Linux PC give me zero ads.

jlow, do games w Life imitates art
@jlow@discuss.tchncs.de avatar

Asbestos Entertainment!

don, do games w Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced
@don@lemmy.ca avatar

Not content with shooting themselves in one foot, they go for the other. Knees are next, for those wondering.

Gullible, do games w Xbox consoles are now getting a fullscreen Xbox Game Pass Ultimate ad at boot, just a day after a 50% price hike was announced

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.

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