| Runa216 said: I find it disheartening that the entire crux of this argument and the divide between being on one side or the other is whether or not a person cares about monetary value or literally everything else. |
Ok, my true gamer card isn't laminated or anything, but here's why I love GP....
1. Before GP, I never really had a massive backlog of games, cus unlike some other self proclaimed "true gamers," I would actually play any new games I bought. Unless I ended up being severely disappointed by them, I would finish them, and then there was nothing new to play until I spent my next 60 bucks on whatever else. With GP, I will ALWAYS have something new to play. Instead of looking at my completed games, wondering what I feel most like re-playing, I can just keep trying new stuff all the time. That's awesome. My "backlog" is GP.
2. If I wanna achievement hunt, which I do rather enjoy from time to time, well....what could be better than access to hundreds of games to do so in? So far this year, I've gotten 100% on 23 games, and 22 of them were GP titles, the other - Control - was technically on GP too, but I wanted the Ultimate Edition, so I bought that one.
3. I like playing games from a broad spectrum of genres. GP encapsulates them all pretty well. Despite what some arguments might have you believe, the service isn't in fact filled simply with GaaS titles, designed to take all your money via MXTs. I haven't exactly counted it out, but I'm pretty sure the vast majority of games on the service are in fact regular single player games.
4. Because there's no extra barrier to entry for any of the titles on GP, I end up trying games I otherwise wouldn't. I'm only buying a game outright, if I'm damn certain that I'm really going to like it. With a service like GP, I subscribe so long as there are enough games I feel I would want to outright buy to justify the price, but then anything beyond that it's simply open for me to fuck around with and see if I actually might end up loving something that I otherwise would have shied away from.
5. Naturally, I do often really come to like various games I'm only playing because they're on GP, because...well, I just like video games....but while I can look at some and say ok, moving forward I'll probably buy new entries of such and such now, I can't afford to do that for literally everything I like. That's where the value comes in. GP means, I don't have to.
Also, I just have to say...that "malice and aggression" you feel you perceive in the argument about this....it really mostly comes from one side, and it's not the people who are enjoying GP. We're not telling you that you're not a real gamer unless you enjoy a subscription service, or that there's anything wrong with you wanting own physical editions of all your games, or whatever it may be. It's pretty much just the "other side" feeling threatened by the growing popularity of a service like GP, and what they feel it MIGHT mean to their gaming habits in the future.
Fortunately for you, MS has made absolutely no show of any intention to remove anyone's ability to keep purchasing games regularly, outside of GP, and they've even been more committed than anyone to make sure your old games keep being playable with various improvements. Individual devs also have so far had nothing but positive things to say about GP, and what it means for their ability to make games, so that's all good. And of course Sony is adamant that the GP model simply wouldn't work for them, so unless they're lying, you'll always have that safe haven of a non subscription dominated environment.
