| IcaroRibeiro said: People do what their habits teach them. For people over their 30 maybe streaming will never be a thing, but for kids who will start playing on streaming buying games will be pointless once they becomes grown ups and starting buying things for themselves Do you know how most of people used to consume music? It wasn't renting, it was buying because a song isn't something you listen one week and then get bored of it, music is something you buy today and keep listening for years Yet everybody adapted to streaming really fast, because streaming is readily available. As long the music is avaible people will subscribe, it's not like singers will take their library from services For games, it will be the same. Subscriptions are fairly new and buying still common, big players and publishers don't have their stabilished services yet, but once the market consolidates (probably will take more 7-8 years) customers will start to trust some games will be avaible in the service forever and then they will naturally move away from buying until buying start being a niche habit just like buying CDs and some publishers will barely bother releasing physical media unless it's for a premium price like vinyls, then customers will need to choose between paying the premium price for their physicals or just engaging in the cheaper media for mass consumption |
I still buy music, went from recording from the radio, renting movies, renting books, pirating games, to buying music (still buy CDs), books, movies and games all physical, so not everybody!
It is annoying that it's much harder nowadays to find music, books, movies and next games in stores :( As well as finding them online to order, still no S4 Expanse released here. Import for a hefty fee :/
So nope, not a fan of subscription services and no plans to ever adapt to them. I simply 'consume' less nowadays, spend more time with fewer games.
