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Xbox wanted 77M Game Pass subscribers by 2026 — today it has less than half that (www.polygon.com)
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[–] Prox@lemmy.world 16 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Look I know it's cool to hate on Microslop, but c'mon.

  1. People are largely fine with renting when they can rent a shit ton of stuff at the same time. This is Netflix for video games, and it's actually done well (compared to whatever the fuck PS tries to do).
  2. Mods are niche. The type of person who buys a console already knows they aren't going to get mods.
  3. Game Pass has a strong track record of giving plenty of advance notice for both additions and removals from service. And they offer discounts on all games that are about to go away.
  4. See #3. This is a made up strawman issue.

Microsoft is fucked from a business perspective, but Game Pass was a great idea and a great offering right up until they fucked themselves from a business perspective by buying Activision for an ocean of money.

[–] Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago
  1. I fail to see how renting games would be fine. It was OK in the 80s-90s, but nowadays? You rent everything, own nothing, and be happy....the whole life is getting subscription-based and we just take it.
  2. It might not be mainstream, but surely not niche. It basically made games like skyrim into what they are. But yes, consoleros know this and accept it. But gamepass is also for PC
  3. So I could buy a vanishing game I rented for months before? On a platform that cannot be trusted to still exist in 10yrs? Great deal.
  4. That surely depends on the person. I take my time with games, sometimes not playing for months to come back. To me it would just be pressure to not do that. And buying? See 3...

This wasn't microslop-hate. Just knowing how many things they just ended and how inherently sucky renting is. I regularly get gifted passes and never felt compelled to even try it.

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 6 points 9 hours ago

There are also mods in some games on console, they just can’t use script extenders like PC modding often can.

[–] Action_Bastid@lemmy.world 0 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Microsoft have already erased everyone's library once before when they shut down the original Games for Windows store. They already have a track record of showing they're perfectly willing to yank everyone's licenses and shut everything down until they decide they actually they do want to be in the games space again.

Game Pass is already their second attempt at this, and there are a lot of people who don't trust them not to rug pull again.

[–] ampersandrew@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

What rug pull? You pay a subscription and know exactly when they're going to revoke your licenses.