Any company that has a subscription service for online, rented games, or even a storefront with microtransactions are cocksuckers. That is with games, watching show apps on Apples TV thing, etc.Does PS+ Extra/Premium get the same amount of critizism, I wonder?![]()
It's still awful for developers
Reacting this way is cringey too.Praising a subscription service is cringey and pathetic honestly. All these people getting on there hands and knees bowing to microsoft for giving them games on a service they pay for is lmaoooooooo. Holy moly.
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If they don't, are Xbox users gonna buy them? It's a chicken and egg thing unfortunately. Might as well get the check from MS and be done with it.They should stop agreeing to put their games on the service then![]()
I compared it to give an idea of value. There's lots of value in Gamepass. Especially when compared to competition.Then stop bringing up PS
If they don't, are Xbox users gonna buy them? It's a chicken and egg thing unfortunately. Might as well get the check from MS and be done with it.
Great deal for those that are into subscriptions. I am not into them. I will just keep buying the games I want, and not playing the games I don't want. At my convenience.![]()
Gamers are starting to notice that Xbox Game Pass is the real deal
Xbox Game Pass is having an absolutely insane quarter, and it'll be interesting to see if Microsoft shares stats when the next quarterly earning report drops.www.windowscentral.com
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The developers get something out of it, whether it's the up-front money, help in development, help in marketing etc.
The notion that it's bad for the developers and yet many still keep putting games out on it is a weak argument at best.
Like my man said:
What's up with the bolded?Game Pass is great value for a select group of gamers who:
- only play on Xbox
- only play games on Game Pass
- don't care about games that are not on Game Pass
- do nothing else but play games
- play and finish multiple games a month
- enjoy titles in every single genre: shooters, WRPGs, sports games, quirky indy games, puzzle games, Metroidvanias, souslike games and more)
But for mainstream gamers who generally buy and play the most popular games (FIFA, GTA, Fortnite) and big AAA games (Assassin's Creed, Cyberpunk 2077, Kingdom Come, etc) the case for Game Pass is much weaker. These people:
- own a PC, PS5 or a gaming PC with Steam instead of an Xbox
- want to play their favorite games/genres first and foremost instead of playing only what's available on Game Pass
- see the games available on Game Pass as a side dish instead of the main course
- don't play games every day for a couple of hours
- play and finish just a handful of games a year
- enjoy titles in just a handful of genres
Why subscribe to Game Pass if the vast majority of your gaming time is spent on finishing a couple of big games a year that are NOT on Game Pass? It makes much more sense to simply buy the few titles on Game Pass that caught your attention when they're discounted than to subscribe for a year and feel like you're wasting money every time you play a game that's not on that service?
People say Game Pass is the Netflix of gaming, but when you get Netflix just about every single person in your family will watch movies and tv series on that service, whereas with Game Pass it will be just you. That makes it harder to justify a subscription that's not being used to the fullest
I compared it to give an idea of value. There's lots of value in Gamepass. Especially when compared to competition
Play whatever and wherever you want mate.Again, the only space where there is real "competition" is with consoles and Game Pass ain't exactly moving the needle there. Pretty much puts an exclamation point behind "value is subjective".
Literally a week after Phil said it's not for everyone.
These goons never learn.
Gamepass has lots of value. Even without the 1st party games of the last year.
Articles like this seem like a reaction to Phil's interview, imo. He's saying something everyone with common sense has been saying since the subscription's inception - it's not for everybody - and some react by trying to push it even harder to millions of people who have repeatedly shown they have no interest. If MS makes any more moves or comments indicating a pulling back from Game Pass, it will be interesting to see if the evangelizing steps up even more or if people like Jez just start to tow the party line.
Like destroying a console brand all together ?I think it's currently a good deal, but I think in the long run this model would be terrible for gaming, so I choose not to support it. I suspect the deal would soon become less good if they succeeded in moving most people and devs to the subscription model.
I don't think Game Pass is crying though
So you do see value in gamepass, cause you subscribe to it from time to time.Everyone has their own opinion on that. For me, I've been subscribed to GP for a few years now thanks to MS Rewards. If I had to pay then it would be a month at a time when there was something I wanted to play. Just as I do with Ubisoft+. But to each their own.
So you do see value in gamepass, cause you subscribe to it from time to time.
See, it wasn't that hard.
Of course.I never said otherwise, now did I? I've been promoting MS Rewards to pay for GP for years. I wrote the dang OT.
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The convenience of NOT playing games for months at a time is a big deal for me. I bought Cyberpunk 2077 Ultimate Edition for like 60% off a year and a half ago and still haven't started it. Bought Shadow of the Erdtree, FF7 Rebirth, etc ages ago and haven't started them. But it's totally fine, because they're there forever, I'm not in a hurry at allGreat deal for those that are into subscriptions. I am not into them. I will just keep buying the games I want, and not playing the games I don't want. At my convenience.
Why always add games coming in several weeks/months rather than focusing on available games ? They always do that, every year « game pass is amazing in 2022, we'll get Fable, Redfall, Starfield, Hellblade 2 »
In that scenario I think they go in to overdrive because those who have been subscribed this whole time and don't purchase any games outside of that stand to lose access to everything. This is especially true for those who have been stupid enough to purchase DLC for games they only have access to via gamepass.
I criticized Microsoft a bit last week for opting to shadow drop Oblivion on top of games like Towerborne and Clair Obscur, but perhaps I was too harsh, and thinking too inwardly.
Of course.
I see tremendous value in Ubi+ as well.
Doesn't mean I am subscribed to it all the time. Mostly cause of time constraints, am playing other stuff.
When someone questions value of a service like this, I take it they never subscribe to it.
So when I say « why always add games that are coming in several weeks/months », your response is « well some of them all already out ».4 of the 7 games in that tweet were already out when it was made.
So when I say « why always add games that are coming in several weeks/months », your response is « well some of them all already out ».
I'll rephrase it so maybe you'll understand it better: « why do some people, when they make game pass games to show its value, always add games that aren't released yet in addition to the already available games ? »
Do you have a wood subscription for your fireplace?Any company that has a subscription service for online, rented games, or even a storefront with microtransactions are cocksuckers. That is with games, watching show apps on Apples TV thing, etc.
There is a reason I have no Hulu, PS plus, Xbox live, Netflix, car apps that want me to pay to hit the unlock button on my phone, etc, I'm not some bitch that will just throw money I worked for in my fireplace. I have some sort of aversion to being bent over and done in dry by companies. If I cannot own it outright, or it is physical that I don't really own, it doesn't get bought.
I'm sure I'm not the only one, so yes Sony is just as horrible as the rest.
Sony doesn't push it as their main business model and obfuscate and lie about its performance or intentions.Does PS+ Extra/Premium get the same amount of critizism, I wonder?![]()
People are noticing now. I predict the summer months will be dry because they frontloaded so many games and a few people will complain. When the fall comes Game Pass hype will be start again because you will have new CoD, Silksong, Outer Worlds 2 and Ninja Gaiden 4.
Who tha fuck is that buttmunch?Another Game Pass appreciation thread. Love it.
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Gamepass only makes sense if you like mid games and play mid games on a regular basis. The occasional great games are few and far between. I have been trying a lot of games on Xbox gamepass on My brother series x. The quality of the allegedly bangers is questionable. People get used to crappy stuff and enjoy it.