What is your opinion on gaming subscription services?

[Zkuq]

IcaroRibeiro said:

Zkuq said:

Not a fan. I don't have enough time to play new (as in "games I don't own yet") games to make them worth my money, and if I really like a game, I want to own it (to support the developer/publishers and to be able to play it even without a subscription, regardless of whether I do so or not). The way I see it is that subscription services make sense when you have a lot of time to enjoy their content but not otherwise. Incidentally, for me the same goes for movie/TV subscriptions as well (to an extent).

I think it's also good if you don't mind not playing your games again after some timd. I'm totally fine not playing Animal Crossing New Horizons again if it means I can get the next Animal Crossing in a subscription service next gen. Do you know why? Because I'm aware it's just a matter of time until my Switch stop working, my New Horizons is a digital version and only God knows whether Nintendo will let me play my digital games on Switch sequel 

Games is a medium that degrades please quickly imo, not because of the cartridges or the CDs, but the hardware to play it. I understand people like to own games, but that's the point of ownership when you can't play your games. It's like me buying all my Kingdom Hearts games again on PS4 because my PS2 copies have been useless for pretty much a decade now, that's why I would be 100% fine with playing them in Game Pass and then losing access if one day I decide to just drop the service 

That's a good point. My main platform is PC so I don't really have to worry about hardware issues, but on consoles that's definitely true. I don't think a subscription would be worth it to me even on consoles, but I can totally see it making a difference for some.