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Chances are games will be added to the gamepass, meaning we get these for essentially free.
by ejlxsh 3y ago
Chances are games will be added to the gamepass, meaning we get these for essentially free.
- hx8 3y agoI'm more concerned that I won't have access to the games because I don't play on Xbox or Windows.
- c0pium 3y agoSo you campaigned against Sony buying Bungie too, right?
- AlexandrB 3y agoI thought it was terrible news. But Bungie is so much smaller than ActiBlizz - they have one active franchise in one genre and maybe another one starting soon in roughly the same genre. Meanwhile ActiBlizz has something like a dozen popular franchises. It's like the difference between Comcast buying a small, local ISP vs. Comcast buying Verizon in terms of scale and number of people impacted.
- hx8 3y agoI've been campaigning against this consolidation since EA bought Westwood in '98.
- TerrifiedMouse 3y agoTo be frank, Sony seem to have bought Bungie more for its live service expertise than its IP. Not fond of this direction but it's hard to argue that Sony bought them to starve Microsoft of game releases - Bungie has like one franchise that's so-so in popularity.
- ejlxsh 3y agoI do agree here, but also I think if a company is acquiring to give an even better service to their own users it's a good thing (as one of those users). I'm sure I read they've agreed to keep them cross-platform so it won't impact Playstation users (maybe a delay with new games being released on Playstation, like how FF16 isn't on Xbox yet) - but what I am really hoping for is the games simply become part of the Xbox Ultimate subscription.
- hx8 3y agoFor me personally, neither Activision nor Blizzard has released a game I wanted to play since Legacy of the Void (2015). This will not have any impact on how I play games for at least the next 3 years. I have long term fears that month-to-month game subscriptions will eat the world and in 15 years people pay for games in the same way they currently pay for streaming videos ($10-$20/mo to many content providers).
- IcyWindows 3y agoYou can play via cloud streaming on other devices.
- hx8 3y agoThat's just playing on Xbox/Windows with extra steps.
- TerrifiedMouse 3y ago> meaning we get these for essentially free. There is no such thing as "free". We will pay for it later.
- kridsdale3 3y agoI'm paying now. Like $15/mo or so. And I download $300/mo worth of titles. So what's the concern?
- jonhohle 3y agoThat’s called a bait-and-switch. Once physical games are no longer a thing, I would expect to see the GamePass library shrink, the subscription get more expensive, or some other unanticipated switch that drives up the cost. Companies don’t operate at a loss[0] for the benefit of their customers. They’re conditioning players to later extract more value later. 0 - https://www.thegamer.com/microsoft-xbox-game-pass-negatively-impacts-sales/ https://www.thegamer.com/microsoft-xbox-game-pass-negatively...
- tacocataco 3y agoLegislation can prevent these things from happening. That said, your scenario is probably more likely without a massive cultural shift or the introduction of Ranked choice voting.
- hyperhopper 3y agoThe same thing that happened with Netflix. Everybody loved it when it started, now things come in and out of the catalog, quality has gone down, prices have gone up ads have been added, and you need to subscribe to 10 other services as well. Why are people acting like gamepass is a good thing
- deprecative 3y agoBecause it is for now. If they mess with it then it'll not be a good deal and folks will leave it.