Xbox removing support for third-party controllers compromises the “play anywhere” experience

To paraphrase the greatest game developer of all time, I don’t usually make a point of writing about how my disability affects how I play games. ‘But that’s how badly Xbox has f*cked up’.Recently, Xbox consoles have begun seeing warnings of the coming apocalypse, or ‘error ‘0x82d60002’: that ‘unauthorized accessories’ will be ‘blocked from use’ from November 12, 2023, with the quisling justification being that they ’compromise the gaming experience’. The error message also includes ‘advice’ to return peripherals

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