• Carmakazi@piefed.social
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    17 days ago

    “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?

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        17 days ago

        “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!

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      17 days ago

      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.

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      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…

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    17 days ago

    That should be more than enough screen time for any gamer living a healthy balanced lifestyle. /s

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    17 days ago

    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.

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    17 days ago

    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.

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      17 days ago

      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

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        17 days ago

        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.