Xbox Chat - Toys For Bob announced deal with Xbox.

[Buffalo]

Mine does. Can never decide if it’s handy or annoying.

[Photek]

Xbox Spring Sale has started. Some decent games in there.

[more heat than light]

https://www.trueachievements.com/n49268 ... -sale-2022

[Photek]

I either own the games I'm interested in or they are in Gamepass/will be (Activision-Blizzard) or will be part of Ubisoft+.



Ninja Gaiden Collection might be worth getting but it's €30.

[Saint of Killers]

Doing MS Rewards. Playing Jewel. And this happened.

[LewisD]

IDGI

[Moggy]

IDGI

He realised he was trying to play a screenshot?

[Victor Mildew]

Why is the ui not aligned properly? WHY.

[Saint of Killers]

IDGI

Just the sheer amount of diamonds, and how they're lined up as they are is out of the ordinary.

[JT986M2]

There seems to be an issue with cross-play in the Xbox account settings getting stuck either on or off. Anyone else come across this?

I disabled it months ago for Halo: Infinite. I wanted to reenable it yesterday for Fortnite. The setting does seem to get reenabled, but games tell me it’s switched off.

I’ve found a few other sporadic reports online, but it is getting quite annoying

[Photek]

Fortnite is ok but Rocket league won’t let me use cross play anymore…

[Monkey Man]

twitter.com/QuakeCon/status/1514242005232201737

[Monkey Man]

twitter.com/VGC_News/status/1514633672405700612

[Monkey Man]

Microsoft wants to let advertisers place ads inside free-to-play Xbox games, and it is currently identifying adtech companies who can create the in-game inventory and work with ad agencies to place the ads, said two people who are involved in the talks.

This new program will boost Xbox's limited ad inventory by adding more games that brands can advertise in and by allowing more developers to sell ad space.

Those sources said those ads would show up as, for instance, digitally rendered billboards in a car racing game. Insider was unable to learn if Xbox will also offer other types of in-game ad units, like avatar skins or video ads that play in gaming lobbies. Insider was also unable to determine if Microsoft has pitched the Xbox offering to advertisers yet.

Insider's sources expect this capability to be live by the third quarter.

Microsoft did not confirm these plans. A spokesperson said,"We are always looking for ways to improve the experience for players and developers but we don't have anything further to share."

The two sources said the tech giant did not seem intent on taking a cut of ad revenue, and that it seemed more interested in building out the Xbox ad network. Ad revenue will be shared by the game developer and the adtech company that places the ad, those sources believe.

One of the sources speculated Microsoft isn't currently interested in collecting a cut of ad revenue because it wants to provide more money-making opportunities to developers who make free-to-play games.

Microsoft started talks to build an Xbox in-game ad network around 2018 or 2019, but that process accelerated thanks to the 2020 release of the latest Xbox, and the boom in free-to-play titles, the two sources said.

Microsoft is worried inserting ads into Xbox games could irritate people who don't expect to see ads when playing on consoles, so it's moving cautiously and intends to create a "private marketplace," where only select brands can insert ads into games in a way that doesn't disrupt the gameplay experience, the two sources said.

https://www.businessinsider.com/microso ... ?r=US&IR=T

Something to keep an eye on. Maybe for that F2P Korean Kart game?

[Peter Crisp]

Do we know when Activision games will start appearing on GamePass?

I'm kind of looking forward to the Diablo 2 remake.

[Saint of Killers]

MS Rewards poll question result on Xbox yesterday was quite surprising. It asked Have you already journeyed into to the Lands Between? A whopping 60%+ said "No"

Do we know when Activision games will start appearing on GamePass?

I'm kind of looking forward to the Diablo 2 remake.

Not soon enough. But D2R already has a full game but time limited demo, if you weren't aware.

[Monkey Man]

Do we know when Activision games will start appearing on GamePass?

I'm kind of looking forward to the Diablo 2 remake.

Won't be until if/when the deal closes which is sometime before July 2023.

[more heat than light]

MS Rewards poll question result on Xbox yesterday was quite surprising. It asked Have you already journeyed into to the Lands Between? A whopping 60%+ said "No"

Xbox gamers don't pay for games.

[Buffalo]

Ads in F2P is fair enough - Burnout Paradise was littered with them when it first came out, billboards, actual branded vans as traffic to crash into too.

[more heat than light]

Yeah I don't have any problem with unobtrusive ads. Rather that than pay to win bullshit.