Microsoft raised Game Pass prices 50%, lost millions of subscribers, walked the price back by April, and just published a patent that pauses your game after a boss fight until you watch an ad. You have to read the patent alongside the price hike disaster to understand what's actually going on. Xbox hardware is collapsing. US console sales fell about 70% in 2025, and hardware revenue has dropped roughly 30% in every quarter of this fiscal year. Microsoft told the FTC it was targeting 77…

Dexerto@Dexerto13h ago

Microsoft has filed a patent for ads that could interrupt games after boss fights, cutscenes, quests and multiplayer rounds Players would receive credits granting temporary game access, while watching an ad would award another credit to let them resume https://t.co/9ihb5cG7DJ