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Conspiracy hat time: if the first-party games on the computer are predatory and pay-to-win, it conditions users to accept that situation. This in turn leads to
by fwip 2y ago
Conspiracy hat time: if the first-party games on the computer are predatory and pay-to-win, it conditions users to accept that situation. This in turn leads to increased profits for other predatory games/apps, of which Microsoft takes their cut.
- can16358p 2y agoThis makes a lot of sense. Pure evil of course, and not to defend MS in any way, but makes sense from a faceless "extract-as-much-as-money-possible" perspective.
- p0w3n3d 2y agoIf I ever payed for minesweeper continue option I would combust
- makeitdouble 2y agoTo clarify: it's not prebundled in Windows. You have to go download it like any other games. If you see it as first party, Minecraft Dungeons is also first party.
- kbolino 2y agoThey're straddling a line, I think. The games may not always be fully "installed" on a clean setup, but there are bundled shortcuts and other hooks to them.
- WorldMaker 2y agoMinecraft Dungeons is more first-party than Minesweeper at this point. Microsoft actually owns Mojang. Microsoft does not own Arkadium.
- WorldMaker 2y agoTechnically they are Second Party games today. Arkadium have been building them since Windows 8. They get the Microsoft brand for what seems like it must be a very favorable contract, but they are an external, independently (privately held) company.