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cross-posted from: https://piefed.ca/c/games@lemmy.world/p/869515/game-pass-was-supposed-to-save-xbox-instead-its-killing-the-company

"Netflix for games" has proven to be far from the ideal solution.

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[–] 404found@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Soo, what does Microsoft do well these days?

[–] felsiq@piefed.zip 1 points 54 minutes ago
[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 hours ago

Gamepass never made sense to me as a product. Games make most their sales money in the first few months, but MS gave them away as day 1 additions. Games are heavily monetized with dlc, but a rotating catalog makes buying any less desirable since you could lose access unless you bought the game as well. The subscription seemed to push sales at you, but that's a turn off for consumers. The used game market was still a thing, a 6 month subscription is less value than spending the same on a handful of games to keep permanently.

I'm not sure how it could succeed unless they stopped selling games at all for Xbox, which would probably kill it faster.

[–] cat_fishing@feddit.online 24 points 8 hours ago

People are tired of subscriptions

[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 16 points 7 hours ago

GamePass is killing Microsoft? I don't think so. And Xbox is not a company. The company that own Xbox is Microsoft.

[–] jtrek@startrek.website 4 points 5 hours ago

It was never going to work out in favor of consumers.

Also fuck Microsoft. At the very least they should be broken up.

[–] rebelsimile@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 hours ago

oh ok how’s that price hike going?

[–] OldChicoAle@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

Dear Capitalists,

Choke on your own subscriptions!

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 hours ago
[–] Eternal192@anarchist.nexus 5 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Gates is a pedo, Microsoft is a shitty company and i don't own an Xbox so go ahead and fucking die!

[–] unitedwithme@lemmy.today 12 points 7 hours ago

Lmao not defending gates, but he's been minimally involved in MS since I think ~2003 when Ballmer took over.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago