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SvennoJ on 08 May 2021
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dane007 said:

It works the same way as Disney plus and netflix  works and so far like netflox u get pretty good variety of movies and TV series. Same goes with Disney plus. With gamepass u give developers more freedom and allow them to take risk with producing a different style of game.  Big blockbuster games are good and fun but to only have that variety gets stale and boring. Example medium wouldn't sell much if it wasn't on gamepass as its not something most people will pay money for. With gamepass the game recouped all the cost and made profit in 3 days. Outerworld. That game wouldn't sell much if released on physical copies. Because its on gamepass more people are willing to try and play it. If I am not mistaken, outriders on gamepass had the same amount of players as people bought the game physically on ps5. 

Suscription service allows to also have free dlcs. That brings in a much better value for gamers than having to fork out money. Even if we have to, its still cheaper than buying a game and dlc.  We need more variety of games and games that don't have to rely on dlcs or even microtransactions. Helps the games to stay at 60 bucks. We don't need games to be 70usd if it can be avoided.. 

That's where our opinions differ as I don't have any praise for the state Netflix and Disney are in. I watch about 10% the amount of movies and tv series I used to watch before streaming. I don't see any risk taking, just more copy paste in different languages when it comes to Netflix. I guess having Brazilian actors or Danish actors is a different style...

I find the variety of (full) games much less nowadays, will game pass turn it around?

Anecdotal stories mean little as Minecraft, PUBG, Demon's Souls, The Witcher series had no trouble breaking out before game pass. Anyway is that what gamepass is, get people to play what they don't really want to play, or not enough to buy it anyway. That's what I feel Netflix has become. Just watch it to wind down from playing games before going to sleep. Not watching it because it's actually good anymore. Everything is so padded out for length :/ And that's what I fear will happen to games. (and is already happening)