SvennoJ said:
What do you mean, do all those things? Buying something at full price is sitting on a high chair? |
No, but judging people who can't is sitting on a high horse (think they mixed the metaphors a bit).
My dad has season football tickets to the Jets. So I get to be a true Jets fan, or at least he does. Not everyone can afford that. To say they aren't true fans or supporters is kind of elitist.
As for how dumping money into a subscription helps, the same way for any other service. People aren't putting their games on Gamepass/PSNow for free. Microsoft/Sony are paying them. It is possible that they have incentives based on number of downloads/playtime. But regardless, Microsoft knows how many downloads they have, and likely have a rough idea of how much the game is played, information which I can almost guarantee would be shared with publishers. So, if tons of people are playing Nier Automata on Gamepass, Microsoft will want Replicant on their service, and Square would be in a position to bargain for a higher price.
This isn't like... some strange and new thing. This is a similar business model as Cable TV. If Microsoft knows why people are signing up for Gamepass, the folks responsible can get more money. Don't know the exact details, but if you can't see how a dev can possibly benefit from Gamepass/PSNow, that's either a failure of imagination, or a dogmatic attempt to justify disliking something that you dislike for completely different reasons.
