Some of you should have heard about this by now. For some modes for solitaire for windows 10 there are ads unless you pay a [cheap] monthly subscription.
In the future, will unity support running ads on computer games? 
How many of you would let your games be paid free with ads on steam?
Well there goes my incentive to upgrade…
Man I hate how Microsoft operates. They are so money hungry. They just HAVE to have 5 different versions of an operating system. They HAVE to have ads on their simple games. They HAVE to force you to rebuy an entire operating system just to fix a registry error. Not only these, but they literally charge you for everything. They are greedy with their money and it pisses me off. I can’t do anything with MS without forcing me to pay them something. Their practices are horrid. No wonder why Apple is growing so fast… and I hope to join the OSX community very soon.
I think Apple is growing because of the pixel density of their displays. Our generation cares about graphics above all else, and even plain text looks amazing on OSX. Even my 2012 retina mbp is pretty to look at.
I’d think the EULA would be what puts off most early adopters until pirates can get around the keylogging and forced upgrades.
Unity [eventually] coming to linux will be awesome. Some linux-y friends of mine want to get back into game dev and unity is the least intimidating engine that isn’t gamemaker.
They do make some amazing displays!
And a working os......
I’m waiting for people to find ways around the annoyances before I upgrade. Worst case though I don’t see DirectX 12 being a necessity for quite some time so I can simply stay on Windows 7.
Yup. I’ve learned the hard way not to upgrade a Microsoft product until you see the term “service pack”.
Well, I just received a free upgrade to Windows 10
How many Linux distros are there now? 
I don’t think it’s new to Windows 10. Solitaire had ads since Windows 8.
However, would you really call solitaire a real desktop game? Ads fit such games, and there are multiple games on the store that use ads. It’s not much different to how mobile market operates.
Many of us don’t acknowledge the existence of that operating system
In general I think the sentiment is the fear people have for ads in their AAA games. I doubt we’ll see this much (sure some will experiment) but ads tend to conflict with a premium experience. If you are selling your game for $40 plus the last thing you want to do is anger your audience. At the $10 or free pricepoint sure, but not high end products.
This is not to say that they won’t advertise, in fact the sports franchises do it already, NBA 2K advertises sprite and sprint, on billboards in the background or on the halftime show (which you can skip). Very few people object to these because they don’t interfere with gameplay at all. Premium games will be very protective of their IP because people shelling out that kind of money demand respect. Maybe we’ll even see some games go hybrid with a high cost and a low cost ad supported option. In the end the market will dictate what is acceptable. The high end steam games will probably never see ads in a majority of games. Casual games or low cost games (steam or elsewhere) will of course be monetized through ads and other methods after all that’s why they are low cost.
To be honest, I find IAP in game currencies to be more annoying than ads personally and some AAA titles are toying with this idea as well (same example). At the end of the day it’s a business and they will try and make money. People will always play what is fun. If you want to change businesses mind then you have to vote with your pocketbook.
To be fair the “new” solitaire is a a lot more advanced than the old versions (<= W7). It’s set of multiple types of solitaires with challenges and tasks which of none had ads for me while playing em during installing stuff after clean install. I could see only the ads in some menus where you selected a challenge to play or etc.
Me too 
I think we are special to MS!!
The last Microsoft service I paid for was Office 365. I’m very happy with Windows 10 so far and I’m changing more and more stuff to Microsoft. I changed from Dropbox to Google Drive to OneDrive. Changed from Evernote to OneNote. And I’m very happy with all these decisions.
In the last 10 years I paid around 200$ to Microsoft (Student License for Office365). That’s not very much.
And yes, I know that they collect my data. As does Apple, Google and every big company around.
I like the fact that these guys have data on me. It makes searchin more efficient. It makes advertising more relevant. It’s nice that Google knows the way home if I ever get lost or forget where home is.
My only complaint is they don’t have enough data. YouTube keeps trying to sell me cars.
My biggest annoyance is that out of ads on webpages, they always think I’m in the market to buy the very thing I bought yesterday. I mean that should be trivial to add to their algorithm, if the item is not consumable you should probably take that out of the list to display to me.
Next time I need to search before I post rather than after. I found solutions and answers to my concerns, so I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade. It took less time than I expected, but most of it was trying not to get lost in the menus.
It’s impossible to count because some friends of mine in college were making their own lol.
Well I’m glad to hear its not impossible to shove ads into desktop games.
That must be nice. The few ads I see are always totally random.
Most of my ads are around learning to code and develop websites. Occasionally I actually click on one.