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Re:Xbox will block third-party controllers to "preserve the ... by 0x500x79 on Monday October 30, 2023 @09:13PM (#38078711)
Possibly, I think the math on number of people that currently purchase controllers that will be blocked in the future is a very small amount of money compared to the possibility of losing that revenue to other gaming sources if that is the reason.

"Preserving console experience" really feels like corporatespeak to say "cheaters" without saying the devices in question (because then it raises visibility to those devices).

I think the "doing this for money" is the people who are currently not gaming due to rampant cheating in games like R6S, Apex, COD, etc.

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Re:Xbox will block third-party controllers to "preserve the ... by soraminazuki on Monday October 30, 2023 @09:21PM (#38078799)
That's a convenient metric. Or rather, the lack of it. My common sense tells me there are significantly more people using third party controllers than there are cheaters, though.
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Re:Xbox will block third-party controllers to "preserve the ... by 0x500x79 on Monday October 30, 2023 @09:25PM (#38078846)
I think the metric is blocked controllers, which is a small subset of 3rd party controllers. So far the most common people complaining about this change is cronus and xim users not legit players.

Most 3rd party controllers that are being sold online are still compatible afaict.

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Re:Xbox will block third-party controllers to "preserve the ... by ThatPlayer on Monday October 30, 2023 @09:36PM (#38078966)
I don't think it has affected xim or cronus at all. They use official first party Xbox controllers to handle authentication, and MITM them to inject inputs.

Instead the big one has been Brooks, who make very popular boards for custom fighting game controllers

https://www.brookaccessory.com/support/xbox-Issue-update.php

https://twitter.com/maximilian_/status/1718811336493482448

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