method114 said:
Yea I honestly wonder sometimes if a subscription model for gaming can work out well as far as profits. Are there enough gamers interested in doing it? We know it works for TV cause everyone watches TV. Not everyone games enough to want to add a monthly cost on their bills for it. Hell most people I know only play COD or the FTP games. Will see I'm interested to see how it all works out. I personally have no interest in subscription model I don't even like it for TV. I download all my media on a media server. I don't like how they add and remove things whenever they want. Like yesterday tried to watch the mist. No subscription service currently has it streaming. Well not Hulu or Netflix anyways. Luckily I had it on my media server. Booted up Kodi and watched it. |
If you only look at just the console space no, but you have the console, PC, and mobile space. That is a huge gaming market and I can tell you its why MS is putting their whole company behind GP. Gamers tend to always look at now and today as if tech and markets do not move grow expend and make something obsolete. Gaming as a whole is a huge business getting all the gamers on your sub is the end game. MS would jump for joy if every Xbox sold also sold with a GP sub but that isn't the case and probably will not happen for a very long time. The key for any business is not to develop just for today but you have to also develop for tomorrow. Gamers really do not understand how important it is for a business to have sustained money coming in on subs then having to spend money up front to produce a game and hope it sells good at retail. Even if GP just broke even it still would be a big win for MS because they want you in their eco system, not only selling you on their services but also other businesses. MS has these huge server farms, if they are not running to a certain level they are losing money. No matter if its their own internal stuff or some other business.
