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eicker@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago

Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you already bought: Time-based a la carte charges come on top of the purchase price for the games themselves.

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Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you already bought: Time-based a la carte charges come on top of the purchase price for the games themselves.

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    I dont think anyone should pay a dime for this, but i also dont see what is so horrendously wrong about it, IF it was only applied to new purchases. Nothing retroactive.

    Streaming takes up compute. Maybe if they charged more for the games, but they should actually charge less. But that wont happen either. Regular price for a streamed game with fee is a terrible thing.

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      I hate this new trend of corpo speak using compute as a noun. Ew.

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        How else do you want to word that Microsoft purchased hardware to run the games for you, and that costs them money?

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          Processing power, server capacity, all the dozens of terms used before AI techbro trash started misusing a verb because they were twigged on ketamine.

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            Well this is around from 2000

            https://www.hpcwire.com/2000/07/28/sun-microsystems-to-acquire-gridware/

            Technology like Codine and GRD enables end-users to submit their compute-intensive jobs to a compute farm with a single-system image, looking like one central virtual mainframe.

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              Yeah, stupid tech-bro corpo marketing speech. It’s fuckin stupid.

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                Just trying to point out it wasn’t AI tech bros like you said. It was in use before them. Tech bros sure.

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