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Ooh I can't wait for the new Philips Hue® lighting monthly subscription service, where with a low fee we can access all of our standard lighting IOT with the basic subscription plan and colored lighting with the premium subscription!
Let the enshittification begin.
But now you'll never be able to set your room to Baby Yoda Green, Mando Mauve, or New England Patriots Nautical Blue during the big game!
Show your support for your teams and favourite characters, for only $4.99 a month, or $59 a year (a generous savings)!
Premium members can link their Disney+, Xbox, and Spotify accounts for $9.99 a month.
Don't forget to light up your feed with our new vibrant social media section!
I'm gonna vom :P
Folks who don't owe Hue might not realize how close to home this hits. They have a bunch of official Star Wars shit in their Hue Labs area.
They can sell colors and themes as DLC! Cosmetics for your home!
They could also have lootboxes you could buy with HueCoins, a new and shiny blockchain backed in-game currency. From the boxes you would get different colors you could use to decorate your home with. Then you could also use the existing colors to craft new ones. If the RNG wasn’t in your favor, you could just buy the colors you want. It’s a win-win for everyone!
Every day you log in, you get a free lootbox shard, and when you have 3 shard, you can craft a lootbox for free. With a higher login streak, you get more shards too.
Yo, what if you could own Red! Be sure to get the NFT of your favorite color!
stahhhp
Oh, we’re just getting warmed up here. Didn’t even mention the system of upgrading HueCoins to different tiers, decaying crafting materials, convoluted system of currencies in each tier, upgrading lootboxes, upgrading the RNG etc.
Damn...halo Infinite beat you to that.
I tried to play this game yesterday. Guess what? Requires you to sign into a MS account to even start the game. I don't wanna live on this planet anymore.
I think they'll start with: pay us or it's lights out. Then walk it back to something that sounds slightly more reasonable.