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Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales (lemmynsfw.com)
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[–] [email protected] 87 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (11 children)

Game Pass is the same scam as Netflix was back then, and I'm not falling for it twice.

Netflix used to be too good to be true as well. 10€ a month for literally everything ! Now they don't even make blu-rays anymore and you spend more time looking up which service has the thing you want to watch than watching it, so people are pirating again.

I'll stick to physical games and GOG as much as possible.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (6 children)

you spend more time looking up which service has the thing you want to watch

justwatch is pretty reliable and can save you tens of hours on your search apparently

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That may be true, but that wasn't the point he tried to make. The problem is that netflix used to have everything at a good monthly price and once they dominated the market, enshittification and price hike started, plus all the other companies wanted in on the action, starting their own service.

Now MS is trying to do the same to the PC gaming market.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

It's also worth noting it came out in 2017. In the years leading up to that namely around 2014 everyone was questioning if Sony was going to have to declare bankruptcy. Throwing a large amount of money into a product that can draw users to your console/platforms for a cheap price that your main competitor couldn't afford to do probably sounded like a good strategy at the time, knowing they could drive costs up if they got the user base built.

Sony may have recovered though

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