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goopy20 on 23 September 2020
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sales2099 said:
goopy20 said:

You forgot quantity there. I subscribed for 2 months and finished Wasteland 3, Battletoads, Grounded, Ori and played enough of Flightsim to know that it's not my cup of tea. Now I'm in lockdown, bored out of my mind and staring at 200 games thinking "nope, nope, nope". It's only $10 bucks but I cancelled anyway - because people are cheap bastards like that - waiting for new big releases before I sign up again. For MS to prevent this they'll need 3 things

  • quantity so every month there are a couple of A or AA games that'll make people wonder "what's next?!"
  • GAAS games that people can play forever
  • Or just cut normal AAA games into episodic content

Adding stuff to spider man is not the same thing as what they're doing with Halo. Games like Spider Man maybe get some DLC and then we're waiting for a sequel. With Halo there will be no sequel, they went full destiny on us. Not saying that is bad, we still have to wait and see how that'll turn out. All I'm saying is that they didn't make Halo GAAS because of design choice, they made it like that because of a business decision. And they'll probably do the same thing with most of their IPs. 

Really hope the service won’t be plagued by people who just beat the games they want and immediately unsubscribe. If you do what you do you can’t act surprised that games like Sea of Thieves are GAAS and Halo Infinite multiplayer is F2P. 

And it still amuses me that you have a anti Xbox reputation but admit to playing a LOT of their 1st party games this year. It shows MS has a winning strategy of reaching people that normally wouldn’t touch Xbox. 

Of course they will. Like I said, people are cheap bastards like that and why stay subscribed to a service if you're not using it? This is why Sony isn't releasing their AAA exclusives day one on PsNow. People would just sign up for a trial month, play the 1 or 2 major exclusives of the year and cancel again. 

The GP model just doesn't work with AAA titles like that as they take years to make and cost a fortune. MS bought a bunch of studios that are known for making A/AA games and now that they're under MS's wings, Xboy guys are all expecting them to make AAA games. It doesn't seem to occur to anyone that maybe they bought those studios because they want them to keep pouring out A/AA games. Even Don Mattrick said games like Ninja Blade aren't $60 games but that they are perfect for GP. Release a bunch of them every month and people will always be wondering "what's next?" and stay subscribed. 

I don't know why you think I would never touch a Xbox. I've owned the OG Xbox, 360 and bought a ton of Xbox games. I just didn't buy a Xone because I had no reason to. Same thing with Series X. If it had Gears or Halo exclusive, I probably would have bought one. But now that they're all on PC, I see no reason to buy one either. I think most people will feel that way if they release the GP app on TV's, Ps5 and the Switch. Doesn't mean I'm not going to take advantage of it because I'm allergic to the Xbox brand.

 

Last edited by goopy20 - on 23 September 2020