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shikamaru317 on 14 May 2024
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Imaginedvl said:
shikamaru317 said:

Interesting results here, seems like more people believe Xbox should either stop doing day one AAA releases on Gamepass or make them Gamepass Ultimate only, than believe Gamepass should stay as is, 3% more people as of now, 45% say to stay as is while a combined 48% say a change is needed to improve Xbox's profitability. 

Don't know if this is your opinion Shikamaru and I'm not attacking you by any means :) BUT I need to talk about those tweets...

See, this is nuts to me; the media are all after GamePass like they know that it is the reason for those studios closing (when the whole industry is doing the same). Why do we even have this question in the first place? Other than a "PR" guy (ex-Microsoft/EA) who "claims" stuff out of his ass about GamePass not being accounted for when setting targets, why are people, all of a sudden, after GamePass like it is THE reason for those layoffs/closures. Microsoft just acquired a truck load of studios, closing some of them instead of laying off people in all studios is just expected (not a good thing, sucks for the people losing their job, but expected). GamePass has nothing to do with that...

I, for one, believe that GamePass is doing WAY more good for those studios than bad AND Microsoft leadership is NOT dumb, they are not asking those studios to sell as much (or more) than before if their games are coming on GamePass day 1. 

Every time Microsoft (Xbox) is doing something bad, everybody is panicking, starting shit like "Xbox looking after its soul" (Dumb Bryan something from IGN), etc... Even when the whole industry is doing the exact same thing.

That being said :) I think having AAA Day 1 for ultimate is okay for me as I use Ultimate. But at the end; people are all getting standard GamePass for the games, the AAA and others, so I do not see how this would be a good thing. I'm struggling to see why the question is being asked in the first place like I said.

Yeah, as far as I know it is just the one former Xbox employee who blamed Gamepass for Xbox's current woes, I haven't seen it from any known reliable insiders. 

Last edited by shikamaru317 - on 14 May 2024