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.

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.

  • VikingHippie@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    571·
    10 months ago

    Remember the good old days when you got ads INSTEAD of directly paying rather than in addition to forking over already extortionate sums to profiteering megacorps? Pepperidge Farm does.

      • meseek #2982@lemmy.caEnglish
        291·
        10 months ago

        Especially retroactively. I’m seeing that in a lot of apps. You buy it. A year later, ads regardless. That kind of chicanery should be illegal.

        Also, I sold my Xbox SX a few months ago. Dodged one 😅

      • VikingHippie@lemmy.wtfEnglish
        16·
        10 months ago

        Absolutely. Hell, with how much of the heavy lifting they’re doing for corporations destroying most aspects of the world, it should probably be illegal to advertise at all except in strictly limited circumstances.

          • VikingHippie@lemmy.wtfEnglish
            7·
            10 months ago

            Not to mention the fact that huge billboards along streets and roads are by definition either ineffective or an impediment to traffic safety, depending on whether or not they manage to catch your attention while you’re operating a vehicle…