src on 26 July 2020
| Immersiveunreality said: You can never get something like gamepass completely replace gaming without hurting developers profit and diversity/quantity right? |
Yes and too many people don't understand why.
Gamepass means MS is the gatekeeper. Whereas before you had the market decide on the allocation of revenue now you have MS decide how much each dev gets to be paid, which is far more inefficient and will lead to under and over evaluation.
In addition, SP AAA games will take the backseat as MS would want players to continue to renew their subs, hence games as a service. We already see this with Halo, Forza, and rumoured to be Fable. In fact any game that goes against MS's ambition will be hurt as MS is the curator now, whereas before it was the market.
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