What is your opinion on gaming subscription services?

[SvennoJ]

Raven said:

SvennoJ said:

I thought this was a thread about opinions about game pass, not a thread on praising game pass. Any criticism of game pass on its long term outlook and possible effects on future games seem to be very unwanted here, filed under, you simply don't like it. Which happens to be an opinion as well.

Apparently many people like the 'original' content Netflix puts out. There are a few good ones, but imo, most of it is very meh. Definitely not as good as stuff like House, The Mentalist and Pushing Daisies, Boston Legal, Better Late than Never, Dirty Jobs. Mr Robot were.

Anyway, opinions are clear by now, time will tell how it all pans out.

The thread is actually not about Game Pass specifically, but it's been unable to move beyond talking about it because of a select few who want to drive a particular narrative about it because the service offends them greatly for some reason.

There's many other gaming subscription services such as Nintendo Switch Online, PS Now, EA Play, Stadia, etc. that could be discussed but we haven't quite been able to get over portraying Microsoft as the evil corporation trying to create a population of non-"true gamers" that have too many games to play to be functional adults with social lives.

I know, and I've always talked about all gaming subscriptions, it all originally started with ps+ on ps3. Yet the answer mostly is but Gamepass is great!

It's not creating a population of non "true gamers" that have too many games to play etc. It's devaluing games in general, making people more reluctant to pay for games. It will come to ps+ / gold has been a long time excuse to hold off on a purchase.

With 3,287 hours logged on FS2020 according to Steam, I'm a perfectly non functional adult with just one game :p

Anyway it's a thread about opinions, not merits.