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Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it (www.pcgamer.com)
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Workers should learn AI skills and companies should use it because it's a "cognitive amplifier," claims Satya Nadella.

in other words please help us, use our AI

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[–] 71 points 7 months ago (17 children)

And they are all getting dependent and addicted to something that is currently almost "free" but the monetization of it all will soon come in force. Good luck having the money to keep paying for it or the capacity to handle all the advertisement it will soon start to push out. I guess the main strategy is manipulate people into getting experience with it with these 2 or 3 years basically being equivalent to a free trial and ensuring people will demand access to the tools from their employees which will pay from their pockets. When barely anyone is able to get their employers to pay for things like IDEs... Oh well.

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  • [–] 32 points 7 months ago (15 children)

    We watched this exact same tactic happen with Xbox gamepass over the last 5 years. They introduced it and left in the capability to purchase the "upgrade" for $1/year. Now they are suddenly cranking it up to $30/month and people are still paying it because they feel like it's a service they "have to have".

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    Is it $30/month on top of Xbox gold or does the game pass include it?

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  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    It's included, but good lord if that's not a very high price for temporary access to a collection of bargain bin games. You could buy a full price game every other month for that money.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago*

    or 3-6 indies on sale - hell if you save up that money you can go nuts every steam/gog same, 360$ should get you around 1k$ games retail price upwards if you are a patient gamer

    Edit: and you can KEEP that, not temporary

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    On top of that, I have personally developed some gaming habits that I don't care for at all as a direct result of gamepass.

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  • [–] 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

    Gold doesn’t exist anymore. Now it’s game pass core or something…the rate went up with that forced “migration”. You do get access to a few “free” games with core, but you gotta pay way more to have the full deal. I think core (which is the cheapest, baseline option) is $70/yr now? (Edit- i just checked my statement, it’s $78.50)

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    This recent massive price hike (it fucking doubled) is what got me to cancel my live, completely.

    I've been subscribed since 2002, when it first released. So their greed lost a sure stream of income. I'm not alone.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago

    Small sample but everyone i know dropped it on the increase to 30 bucks. One of them had been primarily playing PlayStation and xbox for the last decade but has gotten and primarily plays steam deck now.

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  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago

    Hell, Microsoft and Apple did the same thing decades ago. Microsoft offered computer discounts to high schools and colleges, so that the students would be used to (and demand) Microsoft when they went into the business world. Apple then undercut that by offering very discounted products to elementary and junior high schools, so that the students would want Apple products in higher education and the business world.

    The tactic let them write off all the discounts on their taxes, but lock in customers and raise prices on business (and eventually consumer) goods.

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