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konnichiwa said:

crissindahouse said:

1)Almost no Gamepass game is the reason for what people get Gamepass for. The whole library is the reason. 

2)Then you say you can't imagine people to get Gamepass for it but in the second sentence you say you want smaller games. I doubt they push Gamepass lol. 

And why should GTA be so much more expensive for MS if it won't be played by more people as other games which costs the same? MS doesn't pay 10x as much if they don't expect the effect to be also bigger for Gamepass. 

My theory is that MS doesn't expect many to get Gamepass for GTA but they expect many not to leave Gamepass when they have a game like GTA because when they start it, they will put a lot of time into it. So it's more of a "to hold Gamepass subscribers" move which also gives MS more money to invest in other games to get to the service.

You don't only need new subscribers, you also need to hold your actual subscribers and for them, games which take a lot of time are very good. So yes, that system is also made to let people invest more as just to buy that stupid game^^

1) Why would you say that?  People get the Ubisoft subcription to play Shadows for a month or other ubisoft games in the past when they released.

Similar on gamepass.  It is not rare at all to see people go 'I spend 17 bucks on gamepass for a month so I don't need to pay 79.99 to play Starfield or Call of Duty or The next Doom etc when it releases.

2) Because I can't imagine someone going to be 'hmm should I spend 17 bucks to play GTA or should I spend 9.99$ to own the game hmmm thats difficult' similar I can't imagine a sitatuion as  'Oh I am tired of gamepass and don't want to be subscribed anymore but because they add GTA I stay on it'.

I can't imagine it being cheap to put GTA and see that kind of money goes to smaller projects or other third party stuff like ports of games that are not on xbox, this is exactly what made early gamepass great, you could see money invested in porting of games like the Yakuza franchise, Persona and so many others.

Game Pass has 30m+ subscribers on a consistent basis which implies not a lot of people are doing the "sub for a month then cancel" and despite people saying they do that, it's also not rare to see people say it about Netflix, it doesn't mean the majority of people do it, the majority simply keep their sub running out of laziness or even, a lot of people are happy with the content, despite all the complaints on the internet, Lol. Barely anyone will pay attention to what enters Netflix on a monthly basis.

In addition I'm pretty sure Ubisoft+ has a very small subscriber base and Ubisoft+ is obviously for Ubisoft IP only, the total library is way smaller than Game Pass which makes running out of stuff to play on Game Pass a lot harder, then finally, Ubisoft+ is obviously Ubisoft only titles so it depends on what they release, if we take 2025 then Ubisoft+ will likely have a grand total of around 3 games added to it for the entire year, while Game Pass will have more than a couple dozen at the minimum.

The logic you use for #2 could be used for many games that enter Game Pass, especially indies, in effect you're basically saying it's pointless for Game Pass to add anything which has a value below $20 because they cost less than 1 month of Game Pass...But again, Game Pass comes with hundreds of other games and dozens of titles being added on a monthly basis, it also comes with Xbox Live for Xbox users, Lol.

And again, this is the 1st time GTA V has been added to Game Pass PC as well but I bet if they added it only for Game Pass PC I'd have been seeing complaints here, Lol. But I'll also say again, GTA V has already been in Game Pass before, I'm sure they have the numbers which show to them that actually yeah, GTA V performs well in Game Pass, hence it returning.

This whole thing feels like an odd complaint, to be this hung up on a single game being added to Game Pass, Lol.

Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 03 April 2025