Ever heard of a DVR? It has all those benefits, plus my cable provider has play on demand for most regular tv. I get better image and sound quality from cable than from Netflix, higher bandwidth. (Not paying extra for compressed 4K). There are plenty nights Netflix doesn't work, responds slow or drops to abysmal quality, network congestion. I never have that with cable, always works.

However I pay 16 a month for Netflix and yep a lot more for cable, 280 a month, but that includes unlimited high speed internet, mobile phone, home phone, whole home dvr system, high speed modem and dvr rentals. It's a lot, yet Netflix is the extra cost and doesn't work without internet access anyway. (Internet is the big expense here, overpriced as well as mobile phone plans)

Cable tv isn't great, but it's made less and less appealing by streaming taking the shows I like away, and now physical releases as well. And since wife and kids also use cable and netflix, I can't exactly switch things around to follow my particular likes.

Everyone has been repeating themselves on this board for months now about everything. It's called having an opinion. That is the purpose of a forum. At least I bring more information to the discussions by elaborating on my points and giving examples to back up my stances. 

The only thing you've shown any real example of in this thread is how far out of one's way somebody can go to be condescending towards anyone who disagrees with them.

You somehow managed to go from, and you'll excuse me for paraphrasing, "hey man...can't deny that people who play games via GP are more casual gamers than us real gamers who collect all the things," to "wow....can't believe you people with GP find the time to play SOOO many games! How is it even possible to be such a hardcore gamer that you can get ALL that value out of GP, and still find time to do literally anything else?!" That after coming into this thread in the first place, nose up, going "aw-shucks, it really sucks how it feels like there's all this underlying malice behind this discussion." The fucking irony.

You're not trying to have an intellectually honest argument with anyone about the merits of a subscription service. If you gotta argue up is down, down is up, and hot is cold...you don't care. You're just looking for whatever angle seems convenient to you at any given moment to have a dig at someone who has a different point of view from your own. Get over yourself. At the very least, consider doing yourself the favor of knowing when to quit and exit stage left.

No one cares about the bag content as long as their is enough good content that has a decent budget. From what I've seen, things like:

1) Stranger things

2) Locke and Key

3) The Witcher

4) umbrella academy

5) chefs table

6) Queens Gambit

7) money heist

8) wild wild country

9) mind hunters

10) travelers

11) Vincenzo

12) Alice in Borderlands

13) Lucifer

14 Vikings

16) the Alienist

17) the ranch

18) Marlon

19) love, death and robots

20) handsome siblings

21) uncanny counters

22) Castlevania

23) transformers anime

24) chilling adventures of Sabrina

25) cobra Kai

26) Jupiter's legacy

27) 6 underground

So much more original big budget Netflix stuff out there. 

If you liked Tiger King, I really recommend Wild Wild Country. It's about a cult that almost took over a whole city in America and where the term love guru comes from. It's bizarre how this all happened so recently too 

You don't need to play 49 games a month to get the value.  In most cases, just a single game a month eclipses what you pay for that month, especially when you consider 10 bucks of the 15 is already added to Live Gold.  If I play Outriders for example for less than a month, that is 4 months of direct dollar for dollar value of what I would have paid for full price.  The large selection is for mass appeal, not for someone to play every single game.  There is something for everyone and content is added regularly to keep it fresh.

As for the time, I dunno I get great value from it and I work full time, married with 4 kids, go to the gym, and still play games I buy at full price.  Right now I am hooked on MHR and I am finishing up RE8.  Balancing is a lot easier with proper planning than some lead on.

Let's face it, eventually Game Pass will be like this:

Ok.

I thought this was a thread about opinions about game pass, not a thread on praising game pass. Any criticism of game pass on its long term outlook and possible effects on future games seem to be very unwanted here, filed under, you simply don't like it. Which happens to be an opinion as well.

Apparently many people like the 'original' content Netflix puts out. There are a few good ones, but imo, most of it is very meh. Definitely not as good as stuff like House, The Mentalist and Pushing Daisies, Boston Legal, Better Late than Never, Dirty Jobs. Mr Robot were.

Anyway, opinions are clear by now, time will tell how it all pans out.

Maybe it's a game they didn't know about or didn't want to buy it, but see it on Game Pass so they give it a whirl and end up loving it. I really don't understand why this is a hard concept to understand. Not everyone has a huge backlog of games, or they end up not caring about finishing most games on their backlog so would rather focus on something else. I mean, there is a reason these games are in someone's backlog.

You say, "how does anyone have time.." It's not about having more time, but where someone focuses that time on. Instead of spending time on my backlog or whatever, I would rather spend it on Game Pass titles instead. 

I know it's a meme, but I would love to know your reasoning why or how this will become an issue with Game Pass? Even though the top selling/most played games on all system are always the same franchises like CoD, Fortnite, Minecraft, yearly sports titles, GTAV, etc.? At least Game Pass gives consumers more options of playing unique titles and it's why certain indie titles that launch on the service have much higher engagement than if it didn't.

In my experience when it comes to buying games, I tend to play it safe and buy what I'm familiar with or it has plenty of positive reception for me to look into buy it. With Game Pass, if I see something that looks interesting I can play it without that kind of pressure.