Modern Warfare 3 Gets Xbox First-Party Treatment With Startup Screen That Rankles Some Fans - IGN
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Xbox marked the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's campaign with a large splash screen at startup, to the chagrin of some fans.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III is a multi-platform release, but that isn’t stopping Xbox from giving it the full first-party treatment. Xbox users booting up their console today were greeted with a large splash screen prompting them to buy it now that the new campaign is out, and some of them aren’t too happy about it.

  • B0NK3RS@lemmy.worldEnglish
    171·
    1 year ago

    It’s got to the point now (recent dashboard update and these full screen ads) where I’m starting to really dislike using the Xbox.

    • GingaNinga@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      1 year ago

      its pretty gross, keep ads off the home screen. Microsoft is just so bad for their shitware, I have a mac at home and use pc at work and its unbearable sometimes. the amount of restarts, ads, messages is nuts, edge is awful, I hear they’ve patented a system to embed ads in search results for files, its brutal.

    • datavoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      It used to be where I did all my gaming, now it is almost exclusively used for plex and kodi

          • LCP@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Bing website + Bing mobile app + Xbox mobile app + Microsoft Rewards app on Xbox. Takes about 15 minutes a day. Could’ve been 10 if MS’s apps weren’t so slow. It’s very region dependent – some countries get more earning opportunities than others.

            It paid off my Series S in about a year and a half. Any points I earn now are bonus.

            • datavoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
              1·
              1 year ago

              …isn’t 15 minutes a day for a year and a half like 130 hours? Pretty sure M$ is paying you about $3 per hour, I’d recommend getting a job

    • B0NK3RS@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Unless things change (I doubt they will) then this will be my last Xbox console. Once my game pass expires it’s time to sell.

  • M500@lemmy.mlEnglish
    101·
    1 year ago

    Xbox one was my last console before I just went in 100% on PC.

    I hated that my dashboard had ads. It bothered me an unreasonable amount.

    I have a steam deck now and I think there are some ads, but they are not in the way and I don’t think you can even see them unless you scroll to them.

    • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      51·
      1 year ago

      With the Deck at least the ads are only in the store, where they belong.

      And the Deck is completely open to user change.

  • riesendulli@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    419·
    1 year ago

    You xbots get what you deserve: a steady decline in quality, shittier games on an higher interval so you can’t keep up and a price hike before you know it.