Game pass and measuring success?

[Grit]

Steam being the largest gaming platform, and should be the measurement of a games success.
How does game pass measure total game downloads, shortest/average time spent playing. Game pass has 34 million subscribers at $10 per person, so any game that is cheaper than $340,000,000.. its a success?

Also Devs, stop trying to pander and be political, im buying your games to escape the real world grind. Keep your mouth shut unless your being passionate or promoting your game.

[Tegridy Farms]

Best you can do to measure a game that uses gamepass success is by looking at the work of developers you would consider direct competitors too Avowed's developers who also did a simultaneous gamepass launch. For example STALKER recently came out which is another AAA game that also had a simultaneous release on Gamepass. Stalker had over 100k steam concurrent players even though it launched on gamepass same day Avowed had 17k. Which one do you think was more successful?

Also consider that Gamepass has multiple games on the platform and also has to pay upkeep for server infrastructure and other cost assosciated with running the service. I'd be shocked if each individual subscription generated more than 10 cents of value for each individual studio that has a game on gamepass per month.

[moocow]

Veilguard had 91k peak players or something. This game hasn't broke 20. Let that sink in.

[ele]

Most people that use Gamepass use it for free via MS Rewards so no, that's not how it works.

[Space is the Place]

You´re missing and F in your name.

[Veg]

Microsoft views gamepass as taking profits away from their competitors (Steam, Epic, ETC) so the value isnt purely measured in how many people downloaded the or stuck with the product.

[WOKEGOD]

The most effective way to measure success is simply just ignore the shills & paid reviews and wait 2-3 months and see if people either still remember this game positively or forget its existences. Plus every failed games tend to stop updating after said length so there you go.