Reminder: mobile games have had ad = benefit for over a decade. However, this sounds like the reverse (get a credit = no ads or ad free time).

Roblox has had integrated ads for some time, typically diegetic ads on in game billboards. Some of these integrations go less noticed because of the parallel to the real world & they aren’t disruptive of gameplay flow.

Microsoft is welcome to try this pattern, but it’ll likely require developers to be heavily incented to do so. Given that MS just downsized, meaning they have less first parties & have rightfully angered some pockets of the game development world, I feel like their only option here is lots of money or force the loop. Forcing this loop will damage the total addressable market, unless it’s used for F2P games.

Long story, short: they may be patenting this, but they have a long, uphill battle to get this to work in any sort of paid, AAA game/product. They would need an amazing draw to pull people passed it, and a lot of their brands don’t have the draw they used to (see Halo Infinite).

Yearly salaries for the listed monthly price

• 48k
• 96k
• 192k

For those wondering

Imagine applying the same reasoning inside the US:

“Massachusetts buys $2 billion of oranges from Florida. Massachusetts is therefore losing $2 billion. If Massachusetts stops buying oranges, it saves $2 billion.”

That’s plainly incomplete. Massachusetts has oranges in exchange for the money. Requiring Massachusetts to grow all of its own oranges would probably make Massachusetts poorer, not $2 billion richer.

He has no understanding of trade deficit, thinks it’s zero-sum, because the word “deficit” is in it.

Not OP. Making guesses here…

• Idiocracy = humanity becomes catastrophically stupid / institutions decay
• The Matrix = humans are reduced to resources inside a machine-controlled system
• Terminator = machines actively exterminate humanity

Idiocracy X Matrix: People are dumb & happy, caused their own problems, so maybe Wall-E?

Idiocracy X Terminator: Our stupidity puts us in a bad situation of creating our own demise. Dr. Strangelove perhaps?

Matrix X Termiantor: Machine dominate humanity out of existence. The cross here feels shallow, like these films are pretty similar with regards to humans, machines, and the outcome. Oblivon (2013) kinda works? 9 could also work.

Center: I dunno, Robocop? Systems failing, corporations suck, lethal machines. Honestly Black Mirror likely wins, but it’s too broad a series.

Let’s say you made $50k/year. It would take you 20,000 years to make a billion.

Let’s say you make $1m/year. It would take you 1,000 years to make a billion.

A billion is a dumb, immoral amount, and we have humans with hundreds of them, in theory. If you make a billion dollars, whatever earnings after should be taxed at 100%. It’s not “socialist” to make this claim. Rather, it’s inhuman to argue the opposite.

I was there. They let me take a picture of the tech.

Mass voter here: I was dismissive of Markey before learning of his positions and work. We went to a rally, and many young people spoke about his progressive stances, advocacy for trans rights, voting against this regime, and so on. I voted for him, and I’m glad to see Seth dejected. I don’t want a young Senator with old positions.