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The thing it, users seem to prefer the "own nothing, pay little per month" approach. In movies, everyone is now making their subscription services, that are re

The thing it, users seem to prefer the "own nothing, pay little per month" approach. In movies, everyone is now making their subscription services, that are really popular; while services for buying movies online existed for years and were not really all that successful. You can buy movies on iTunes for maybe 15 years now and on Google Play for ... a while too; but it has never been as successful as Netflix, Disney+, HBO Max, Paramount Whatever, is now. People just prefer the subscription model. But maybe gaming is fundamentally different. Apple Arcade is not really successful, but maybe it's because Apple is being Apple, I don't know. Xbox... has a game pass thing? I don't really follow that that much

pjerem 5y ago
Xbox Game Pass is a huge success, it seems. And tbf, that’s to be expected when you look at the game list it unlocks.
f1refly 5y ago
>while services for buying movies online existed for years and were not really all that successful. >You can buy movies on iTunes for maybe 15 years now and on Google Play for ... a while too I don't know about itunes, but the last movie I ""bought"" on google play couldn't be downloaded, I had to watch it through their interface and firefox on linux was not supported. I believe they don't offer the thing anymore as well, probably happened during one of their countless service mergers and shuffles. I can't find it anymore, anyways. 0/10 would not license a movie through google again. Do you know what isn't going away? The files I ripped from blurays that stores are selling for about five bucks a pice, 12 if you take three. Unless I get an mkv I can play wherever I want for as long as I have it, I'm not buying.