Hating Game Pass Makes You Look Foolish

[SvennoJ]

zero129 said:

Angelv577 said:

I dont have a problem with gamepass but based on my needs, I rather buy the games I want to play whenever I want to instead of someone else dictating what I should play. dont have unlimited time to play plus before gamepass, I already had a backlog of more than 1,000 games that I bought everytime I saw a potential game on sale. besides, most games drop prices in a couple of months after launch anyway. deadloop is at $30 right now. in other words gamepass is not for me.

But its not a one or the other thing. For instance i have gamepass, if the is a game i really enjoy nothing stopping me from buying it and taking advantage of the discount you get with gamepass.

For a lot of people it is though. Subscribing to a service for many means they feel urged to make use of it to validate spending money on it. For some subscriptions mean the freedom to try everything. For others, subscriptions feel more restrictive.

Gamepass not being a bit profitable subscription service is actually a good thing. If it is as lucrative as Netflix, you can expect more competing services to pop up, leading to fragmentation and stuff going behind different pay walls. Yet as long as you can simply still buy everything without having to wait years (unlike what happened to tv) then it's all fine. Luckily Stadia fell flat on its ass with exclusive streaming games. Little horror scenario averted where Google bought Zenimax and locked future Skyrim etc behind Google Stadia.