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DonFerrari said:
Normchacho said:
Sounds crappy if you ask me. Why on earth would I want anything else to be like the god awful cable business model?

Just give me a platform specific service where I can play games from several publishers and developers from several console generations. Price it as a monthly subscription service where I pay based on how many games I want to use a month. Heck even give me an option for unlimited games a month.

how garbage would Netflix be if you needed different subscriptions if you wanted to watch movies from different studios?


Not different subscription... you make one sub but the price is based on how many publishers you want on it (because it would be easier to make the devs accept the license model if it's determined how much they will receive based on the number of people that opt to include it on their subs), age of games and sure how many different games you can play in the month.

but wouldn't that still be a pain? What If I want to try a game from another publisher but I don't want to try enough of them to warrant adding them? Would this plan also limit us to larger publishers while blocking smaller ones from being part of the program?

It just seems needlesly restrictive to me. Where is the benifit over just having them all in together?



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Normchacho said:
DonFerrari said:


Not different subscription... you make one sub but the price is based on how many publishers you want on it (because it would be easier to make the devs accept the license model if it's determined how much they will receive based on the number of people that opt to include it on their subs), age of games and sure how many different games you can play in the month.

but wouldn't that still be a pain? What If I want to try a game from another publisher but I don't want to try enough of them to warrant adding them? Would this plan also limit us to larger publishers while blocking smaller ones from being part of the program?

It just seems needlesly restrictive to me. Where is the benifit over just having them all in together?


how is having an additionnal option a restriction ? What service/ feature is lost ?



fighter said:
Normchacho said:
DonFerrari said:


Not different subscription... you make one sub but the price is based on how many publishers you want on it (because it would be easier to make the devs accept the license model if it's determined how much they will receive based on the number of people that opt to include it on their subs), age of games and sure how many different games you can play in the month.

but wouldn't that still be a pain? What If I want to try a game from another publisher but I don't want to try enough of them to warrant adding them? Would this plan also limit us to larger publishers while blocking smaller ones from being part of the program?

It just seems needlesly restrictive to me. Where is the benifit over just having them all in together?


how is having an additionnal option a restriction ? What service/ feature is lost ?


It's not more options. Taking a pie and cutting it in half doesn't mean you have more options, you just have the same option segmented up. 

Making you physically choose to have access to games from a certain publisher rather than just letting have access to them all is pointless and doesn't take away anything. As I said, you could very well lose smaller publishers or self publishing developers in a model like this because they are left to sustain themselves in the program.



Bet with Adamblaziken:

I bet that on launch the Nintendo Switch will have no built in in-game voice chat. He bets that it will. The winner gets six months of avatar control over the other user.

Seems like they will do it - why else would they hate on EA's thing?!



Normchacho said:
DonFerrari said:
Normchacho said:
Sounds crappy if you ask me. Why on earth would I want anything else to be like the god awful cable business model?

Just give me a platform specific service where I can play games from several publishers and developers from several console generations. Price it as a monthly subscription service where I pay based on how many games I want to use a month. Heck even give me an option for unlimited games a month.

how garbage would Netflix be if you needed different subscriptions if you wanted to watch movies from different studios?


Not different subscription... you make one sub but the price is based on how many publishers you want on it (because it would be easier to make the devs accept the license model if it's determined how much they will receive based on the number of people that opt to include it on their subs), age of games and sure how many different games you can play in the month.

but wouldn't that still be a pain? What If I want to try a game from another publisher but I don't want to try enough of them to warrant adding them? Would this plan also limit us to larger publishers while blocking smaller ones from being part of the program?

It just seems needlesly restrictive to me. Where is the benifit over just having them all in together?

Well as with most cable packages the smaller ones are put together as "throw ins" to make volume... you want Discovery Channel, but have to get other 5 channels you don't like... maybe there could be a 3 small devs for one price =]



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I honestly can see this being the future in about 10 years time. A lot of people won't even bother with a console.



Normchacho said:
fighter said:
Normchacho said:

but wouldn't that still be a pain? What If I want to try a game from another publisher but I don't want to try enough of them to warrant adding them? Would this plan also limit us to larger publishers while blocking smaller ones from being part of the program?

It just seems needlesly restrictive to me. Where is the benifit over just having them all in together?


how is having an additionnal option a restriction ? What service/ feature is lost ?


It's not more options. Taking a pie and cutting it in half doesn't mean you have more options, you just have the same option segmented up. 

Making you physically choose to have access to games from a certain publisher rather than just letting have access to them all is pointless and doesn't take away anything. As I said, you could very well lose smaller publishers or self publishing developers in a model like this because they are left to sustain themselves in the program.

so it's an additional way of eating the same pie --> additional option



Sounds too complicated. And there wouldn't be enough games to justify a separate package for each type of game.



    

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No I would not subscribe. PS Now I would subscribe for a short time to play a few PSP games I'm interested in, but I wouldn't consider a long term sub.



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DonFerrari said:

What if Sony revised their arrogance towards EA access being no value and put a third subscription based service?

Let's say... PS+ you play MP and get some games to keep for as long as you have the subs (can be played on PSP,PS3,PS4,PSVita)

PSNow, you can rent a game for the lenghts stablished or subs to stream several older games (any system).

PSCable

You decide what package you want. Which publishers you want to have access and what kind of game (brand new, backlog, indies, etc) but all from this generation. And you have a rotation defined by the publishers.

This would work offline, you download the game and play without the need for checks because the game would already go with a time counter to expire the content when the publisher had defined the rotation... yes people could tamper the clock, but as soons as they try to download the next game it would make them correct it (how many people would go the trouble of always changing the clock to keep playing the games of older rotations?).

Would you subscribe? How much would it be worth to you? What kind of plans and developers would you like to have on it.


I want to actually own the games I play, so no, I'd have no interest.