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As Game Pass prices get laughably high, Microsoft is reportedly spinning up a free version of Xbox Cloud Gaming—but of course you'll have to sit through ads (www.pcgamer.com)

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[–] specialwall@midwest.social 17 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I was wondering how they would be able to run such an expensive service based on just one person's ad revenue:

Microsoft is also currently testing a limit of one hour for sessions, with up to five hours free a month

I just don't understand how Microsoft thinks someone is going to sit through minutes of ads and be okay with only 5 hours per month in return.

[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 9 points 4 days ago

When I was a kid my parents would only let me play games for half an hour a day. That works out at, using the monthly times, three times as much as Microsoft is letting people use.

Microsoft, is it an ad supported tier or a limited trial. Pick one.