New Xbox CEO Reportedly Told Employees That “Game Pass Has Become Too Expensive for Players”

[MadMummy76]

They do add titles quite often. The AAA titles stick around for months, so no rush to finish them. And if I like a game, thinking I'll play it for a significant amount of time, I'll buy it. At a discount with the pass if it's not cheaper on Steam. Otherwise it cost me $30 to try a bunch of games I otherwise would have never had access to or never seriously considered purchasing.

But how often do they add titles you would pay money for? Why would I pay a subscription to get access to games I'd never even consider buying?

At this point not even years is enough for me to finish some games, I just don't play games 6-8 hours / day anymore, unless it's something I really enjoy. But the last such game was 3 years ago. Games that are still good but not that great to me I'm ever more reluctant to go back to. Often ending up on hiatus for months, then I play a few hours and then its back on the shelf for another 3 months.

Let's do some calculations. I first got games pass as a trial almost 7 years ago. Let's say 80 months. At $15/month (IDK when and how prices were exactly but I think this is a favorable average for them). If I had kept my subscription this entire time I'd have paid $1200. That's 20 AAA games bought outright. MS's catalog is not that good to have anywhere close to that many games I'd want.

 

[Riccochet]

But how often do they add titles you would pay money for? Why would I pay a subscription to get access to games I'd never even consider buying?

At this point not even years is enough for me to finish some games, I just don't play games 6-8 hours / day anymore, unless it's something I really enjoy. But the last such game was 3 years ago. Games that are still good but not that great to me I'm ever more reluctant to go back to. Often ending up on hiatus for months, then I play a few hours and then its back on the shelf for another 3 months.

Let's do some calculations. I first got games pass as a trial almost 7 years ago. Let's say 80 months. At $15/month (IDK when and how prices were exactly but I think this is a favorable average for them). If I had kept my subscription this entire time I'd have paid $1200. That's 20 AAA games bought outright. MS's catalog is not that good to have anywhere close to that many games I'd want.

How often? Quite often. I've only subscribed for 4 months now and there are about 20 AAA games on there that I already own on steam, and about 20 more I would consider buying.

You can look for yourself in the MS Store app. It's no hidden paywalled secret.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

I'm OK with buying AAA games that are good, at 60 70 even 80

 

[MadMummy76]

How often? Quite often. I've only subscribed for 4 months now and there are about 20 AAA games on there that I already own on steam, and about 20 more I would consider buying.

You can look for yourself in the MS Store app. It's no hidden paywalled secret.

I didn't mean the backlog of games, but how often and how many such games are added? Surely for an ongoing subscription to make any sense at all you must get more games than what you could buy outright with the same money.

So, paying 80 to buy a great game once in a while is a problem, but paying 20 every month for literal slop you don't even own is fine?

 

[Uvilla]

I didn't mean the backlog of games, but how often and how many such games are added? Surely for an ongoing subscription to make any sense at all you must get more games than what you could buy outright with the same money.


So, paying 80 to buy a great game once in a while is a problem, but paying 20 every month for literal slop you don't even own is fine?

What does ' own' mean with no physical media?
Sure sure in theory you may have access " indefinetly" with steam or similar, and with library access theres the whim of the provider more so, however, both have a huge loss vs. Physical: you cant re sell squat.
This is why i care so much less about libraries and GAS being part of the market big part, small part I dont care. The loss of physical media was the big hit so to speak, everyone in the pc gaming world embraced quite well, though there was some discussion. I guess the evolving nature of windows was always going to yield this result, is not like a console ( much less so now i am fully aware) were you can have physical media, and what is basically the media reader, both can be relatively stable. Yes I know consoles are being evolved out of physical media too, this is the real loss, and its inevitable, and thats why, i have and likely will re-embrace GAS and streaming now, or later whatever.