Soo, what does Microsoft do well these days?
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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.
People are tired of subscriptions
GamePass is killing Microsoft? I don't think so. And Xbox is not a company. The company that own Xbox is Microsoft.
It was never going to work out in favor of consumers.
Also fuck Microsoft. At the very least they should be broken up.
oh ok how’s that price hike going?
Dear Capitalists,
Choke on your own subscriptions!
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Gates is a pedo, Microsoft is a shitty company and i don't own an Xbox so go ahead and fucking die!
Lmao not defending gates, but he's been minimally involved in MS since I think ~2003 when Ballmer took over.
Lol