It will crash and burn epically. There are rumors, well more than rumors now, that they can't even turn on even half the GPUs they are hoarding. It either sits in warehouses, or installed but without power to turn them on, or maybe only exist as a committent. Oracle just invoked force majeure on...
This is the same spin-job that the MCU does. "It is the most successful thing since the last thing"
“I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself”
― Winston S. Churchill
You're right I don't know, but neither does Microsoft, since in order to find out we'd need an alternative universe to check what happens if it's not on games pass. So best we can do is an educated guess. One thing is for sure, it's not enough to tank a game that would be a success otherwise...
Companies love it, because it is a smaller recurring budgetable expense, instead of one giant up-front invoice. But do actual users love it? I highly doubt that. Enterprise buys a ton of software licenses that never gets used, that's just a fact. So the actual users might seem like a vocal...
Paul Tassi is clueless, yes, I've said it. His opinions are no better than the average reddit user's, his just happens to be published on big name legacy media.
It has been proven time and time again, that games pass is irrelevant in the greater scheme of things. Starfield was on it day 1, and...
I have a bad feeling that the industry is heading towards dropping the option to buy games altogether. It will be all subscription and only subscription. You want to play Day 1 title? You pay $29.99 for the first month, then recurring payment of $19.99 second month, gradually dropping to $4.99 /...