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fielding88 said:
yvanjean said:

I think you got it all wrong. If your Microsoft and about to release Halo 6 in November 2019. Would you want to make $60 and have the game sell to 5 million customers (sales 300million) or would you rather have 10-20 million customers subscribed to a $9.99/month gamepass (Sales 100-200 Million a month) ???

300 millions in one time sales VS. 100-200 Million a month in sales. Even if there a drop off after major release they will make a killing. 

I'm just going by comments Spencer made here

“Shannon Loftis and I are thinking a lot about, well, could we put story-based games into the Xbox Game Pass business model because you have a subscription going? It would mean you wouldn’t have to deliver the whole game in one month; you could develop and deliver the game as it goes.”

I think I'd want the subscribers personally. They're more invested into my ecosystem if I were Microsoft. 


I think your taking the comment out of context. 

What Phil Spencer is saying with a service like Xbox game pass which is a subscription, it could really benefits from having story-based games. So let's say Microsoft get a studios to make episodic games like life is strange or Telltales Games. People could come back every month for new content. It wouldn't have to be a major release like Halo 6 and long wait time between new games or in this case episodes. 

Games like Halo and Forza would still have major release but there DLC could be tied to game pass. If Microsoft release free DLC for games that are on game pass people would come back to the subscription service. 

 



yvanjean said:
DonFerrari said:

You seem to have listed almost all exclusives and consider the majority to be good to excellent. That would probably not be the same feeling someone that isn't invested in the ecosystem have.

Every game that I list has excellent all have Metacritic score of 75 and above. Therefore, I'm not making the statement has someone invested in the ecosystem but rather reviewers.

This is what to expect going for ward if you subscribe to game pass. 

I wouldn't say every game above 75 on metacritic is good. But I won't deny that there is enough good games to justify a signature if you like the games available.



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DonFerrari said: 
yvanjean said: 

Every game that I list has excellent all have Metacritic score of 75 and above. Therefore, I'm not making the statement has someone invested in the ecosystem but rather reviewers.

This is what to expect going for ward if you subscribe to game pass. 

I wouldn't say every game above 75 on metacritic is good. But I won't deny that there is enough good games to justify a signature if you like the games available.

Every game that get a 75 or above is normally better then good. Especially if it is a genre that you enjoy. I would fault Microsoft Studios for not having enough games with Universal acclaim score of 90 and up. Only one so far this generation Forza Horizon 3. Halo and gears were great but were missing something to get them over the hump to 90+. 

But, I think that in 2018  Sea of thieves, State of Decay 2 and the next Ori all have a chance to achieve universal acclaim.  Well we will see about state of Decay 2 but one can only hope :) 

The rating scale of metascores is:

Indication Video games
Universal acclaim 90–100
Generally favorable reviews 75–89
Mixed or average reviews 50–74
Generally unfavorable reviews 20–49
Overwhelming dislike 0–19

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d21lewis said:
One more thing about Game Pass--the titles don't stay there forever. The game may be there day one but it could be gone in a month. Then, you can buy it at a discount. If the game is good enough, people will want to own it.

MS has confirmed that all MS exclusives on the service will not rotate out.

 

On another point, MS needs to have family sharing to complete this awesome move.  Right now if you download a game from digital under your main account, the game still cannot be played but any other accounts in your household unless they are using the account that purchased the game.  I have 2 Xbox console.  One is my original that I gave to my son and the other is the X.  Game sharing would even if they asked for some extra bones would make this a lock.



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Machiavellian said:
d21lewis said:
One more thing about Game Pass--the titles don't stay there forever. The game may be there day one but it could be gone in a month. Then, you can buy it at a discount. If the game is good enough, people will want to own it.

MS has confirmed that all MS exclusives on the service will not rotate out.

 

On another point, MS needs to have family sharing to complete this awesome move.  Right now if you download a game from digital under your main account, the game still cannot be played but any other accounts in your household unless they are using the account that purchased the game.  I have 2 Xbox console.  One is my original that I gave to my son and the other is the X.  Game sharing would even if they asked for some extra bones would make this a lock.

I have five!

https://youtu.be/ndU_TV4bX28

You're kinda right...but not 100% On the "primary" console, anybody can play any game they want, whenever they want. They can even use Xbox Live Gold as much as they want.

 

On the other consoles, the account that purchased the games needs to be logged in. As long as they're logged in, anybody in any other account can still play the games. Only two consoles can play the games at a time, tho--as long as one of the consoles is the primary console.

 

I've even played online with my daughter--one  digital purchase of the game and one Xbox Live gold subscription (mine) and we were both able to play the same game at the same time, online together!



Barkley said:

That's insane...

You'd be mad to buy Microsoft Games outright now, for the price of a single new title you can almost get 6 months of gamepass, so if you'd buy two games from them a year... it works out... and with everything else included...

Unless omeone just prefers physical discs.



d21lewis said:

On another point, MS needs to have family sharing to complete this awesome move.  Right now if you download a game from digital under your main account, the game still cannot be played but any other accounts in your household unless they are using the account that purchased the game.  I have 2 Xbox console.  One is my original that I gave to my son and the other is the X.  Game sharing would even if they asked for some extra bones would make this a lock.

I have five!

https://youtu.be/ndU_TV4bX28

You're kinda right...but not 100% On the "primary" console, anybody can play any game they want, whenever they want. They can even use Xbox Live Gold as much as they want.

 

On the other consoles, the account that purchased the games needs to be logged in. As long as they're logged in, anybody in any other account can still play the games. Only two consoles can play the games at a time, tho--as long as one of the consoles is the primary console.

 

I've even played online with my daughter--one  digital purchase of the game and one Xbox Live gold subscription (mine) and we were both able to play the same game at the same time, online together!

This is the problem I have come in contact with.  If I am logged into the Xbox X using my primary account and my Son wants to play a Minecraft which was purchased with my Account on the Xbox One.  In order for him to play Minecraft, my account needs to be logged into his machine.  That's a problem since it will log me out on the X.  If I am playing a game, using a service like Crunchy Roll or Nextflix, they will stop working.  



Machiavellian said:
d21lewis said:

I have five!

https://youtu.be/ndU_TV4bX28

You're kinda right...but not 100% On the "primary" console, anybody can play any game they want, whenever they want. They can even use Xbox Live Gold as much as they want.

 

On the other consoles, the account that purchased the games needs to be logged in. As long as they're logged in, anybody in any other account can still play the games. Only two consoles can play the games at a time, tho--as long as one of the consoles is the primary console.

 

I've even played online with my daughter--one  digital purchase of the game and one Xbox Live gold subscription (mine) and we were both able to play the same game at the same time, online together!

This is the problem I have come in contact with.  If I am logged into the Xbox X using my primary account and my Son wants to play a Minecraft which was purchased with my Account on the Xbox One.  In order for him to play Minecraft, my account needs to be logged into his machine.  That's a problem since it will log me out on the X.  If I am playing a game, using a service like Crunchy Roll or Nextflix, they will stop working.  

Make his machine the home console for your account. He now has your Gold privileges, and access to anything you’ve bought digital, without you needing to be logged in. Now make your account always sign in on your X. Done. My brother and I share games this way.



This is great news for the consumer, and MS will undoubtedly make a decent chunk of change off of it, but it really doesn’t bode well for Xbox hardware.



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