Okay, enlighten me :)

FS2020 works fine as a major draw and it doesn't get much more blockbuster.
Any big singleplayer(story) is a way to draw new people in or get resubs.
new content is allways good for a sub service whether its GaaS or oneshot and one shots causing bigger waves

Flightsim is the perfect game for GP. It's not for everybody but anyone who's into sims can spend a whole console generation playing that single game. AAA Single player games on the other hand are just too expensive and take too long to make to and won't keep people engaged. They're one and done kind of games unless they have an amazing multiplayer.

Be honest now guys, how many of you have cancelled your GP subscription and renewed when there were some new big releases? I've just finished Wasteland 3 and cancelled right after. MS is still figuring this all out but I'm sure that's not what they want. That's why we're getting a GAAS Halo and we have to wait and see if that's a good or a bad thing.

The thing you don't seem (or don't want) to understand is that for ANY subscription-based model to be able to keep people subscribed you need to offer two things: Quality and variety.

Variety: If they only offer GAAS as you say, people who don't like that will just go away.

Quality: If people don't like what they offer, they will just go somewhere else to find it. And no, people will not keep paying "just because is cheap." You yourself have said MULTIPLE times that you just subscribe whenever a game that interests you comes in and then unsubscribe again.

Oh, and Halo is not simply going GAAS. They have said multiple times that the single-player campaign will be "the longest yet." So I ask you, if Sony provides you a satisfying single-player campaign on the next Spiderman, but then they keep adding stuff over the years on top of it, will you see that as a bad thing?

I will not go to where Gamepass is avaible. Gamepass will come to me! >:(

I don’t think Sony counts as competition in streaming because they literally pay MS for Azure. Even if they win MS wins too. Nintendo’s online is still stuck in the mid 2000s they won’t enter the streaming game for a looong time. 

The irony is that there is no pattern with the games. They are all different genres. Sony is the one with the pattern. “Single player story driven 3rd person action adventure”. I applaud Xbox for their games this year, there’s more to gaming then one genre. 

Cmon Goop. You’d think buying Bethesda would tell you they are committed to A-AAA games. Game Pass needs all 3 levels of budget to thrive. 

Also I’d say Halo Infinite is a GAAS but also a AAA multiplayer component at its core. Again, something the competition doesn’t know how to do anymore (multiplayer). I refuse to downplay multiplayer games just because another fan group is obsessed with single player games. 

Exactly.

GAAS with long term money losing model to get market share is the recipe to destroy the video game industry.  

Look at the mobile devices market. Lot of cash grab sub par games and the quality games get buried in the market.

You forgot quantity there. I subscribed for 2 months and finished Wasteland 3, Battletoads, Grounded, Ori and played enough of Flightsim to know that it's not my cup of tea. Now I'm in lockdown, bored out of my mind and staring at 200 games thinking "nope, nope, nope". It's only $10 bucks but I cancelled anyway - because people are cheap bastards like that - waiting for new big releases before I sign up again. For MS to prevent this they'll need 3 things

• quantity so every month there are a couple of A or AA games that'll make people wonder "what's next?!"
• GAAS games that people can play forever
• Or just cut normal AAA games into episodic content

Adding stuff to spider man is not the same thing as what they're doing with Halo. Games like Spider Man maybe get some DLC and then we're waiting for a sequel. With Halo there will be no sequel, they went full destiny on us. Not saying that is bad, we still have to wait and see how that'll turn out. All I'm saying is that they didn't make Halo GAAS because of design choice, they made it like that because of a business decision. And they'll probably do the same thing with most of their IPs. 

If they end up offering just those three things, will you keep your subscription?

Well Bethesda is huge. It's not small fish. It's a slice of the market and Microsoft just bought it, a very important slice of the market.

My first thought is that I don't like it, because it removes from the market one of the biggest independent ones out there (independent meaning not part of any console conglomerate). I'm not saying this because it was MS. If it was Sony buying Bethesda I'd be upset as much.

My second thought is that I can't stay out of MS Game Pass any more. I was already getting myself ready to pick up an Xbox next year and after this, knowing that Bethesda titles will be on gamepass day one, there's no way I'll be out of this deal.

Surely MS is making Xbox a sort of an inevitable second console to any PS/Nintendo owner.