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Angelus on 27 April 2021
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SvennoJ said:
Angelus said:

Is the part I wrote there about how it CAN save you money only visible to me? It's saving me money too, and I'm happy for it. Clearly though, again, unless MS is lying to everyone (which I imagine wouldn't go over particularly well with all these studios and publishers they're making deals with), the larger trend among GP users is that they're spending more money. Where are these people? I don't really care. 

All I see MS saying is that it will be profitable at some point. It isn't yet, and they're over delivering on value for customer and publishers for content acquisition. So no, they're not lying, they're also not saying it's profitable or sustainable the way it currently is.

All I can find is this
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/xbox-says-game-pass-subscribers-spend-20-more-overall/

20% more, that's trending below the extra time and money spend on entertainment due to the pandemic.
https://www.npd.com/wps/portal/npd/us/news/press-releases/2020/across-all-age-groups-us-consumers-are-investing-more-of-their-entertainment-participation/ with total time spent gaming increasing 26% and total spend increasing 33%

And should we be happy DLC and MTX will be the driving force behind subscriptions, holding content back to sell separately in pieces wasn't that scoffed on not long ago?


Sarah Bond was talking about their GP data recently, and said that GP subscribers, among other things, spend on average 20% more on their platform than non GP subs. 

As for whether or not we should be happy about DLC and MTX being a driving force of revenue behind subscriptions...everyone has to answer that for themselves. Personally, I'm totally fine with paying for good DLC content, less so for MTX, but I also don't care about their presence as long as they're not too intrusive. The other factor for increased spending habits though would be that people may play a game from a franchise (or developler) they weren't previously familiar with, like it, and then end up purchasing a new game in that series (or from said dev) when it launches outside of the subscription. It's not really that hard to see how there could be an increase in spending habits for people, while still being a good deal for them.