Is there any reason why people don't like Game Pass?

[VongolaXth]

Like.. why do people prefer to pay 40$ more than the Game Pass 10 bucks? What exactly makes them waste their money even tho they could save SO MUCH money? Are they rich?

[F.U.D.F.]

Originally posted by JocularJosh:

Well for me personally I like having all my games in one place, which is steam.

Never understood why this matters. People will actually buy a steam copy of a game they already had just to have it on steam.

a bit OCD.

[PawgaliciouS QueeN]

Originally posted by patrick68794:

Originally posted by Twitch - SophaliciouS_Systematic:

Yeah 3 trillion dollar companies can't afford that. Weird that the steramworks version is win32 which launched day and date.

It's not a matter of affording it lol it literally can't be done in a few weeks for a game like FH5 and there was no business reason for them to do it after release either. It's a huge amount of work to port games between different platforms. It would also be a waste of time for them to add the functionality specific to the UWP version of the game to the Win32 version just to add it to the Windows store.

You completely ignored the second and more important sentence.

[Jouchebag]

Originally posted by falnazor:

Why no game pass?
I'm on a Linux machine. I *could* get Game Pass stuff up and running on my system...but why?
Plus, I swore an oath decades ago to never give Microsoft money. Not about to break that oath now.

But this forum is for Hellblade 2. A game produced by Microsoft and developed by a company owned by Microsoft. Seems strange that you're even here if you have no intention of giving Microsoft money.

[ReflexShift]

I have gotten, a few times, the free 3 month sub of game pass but never redeemed them. I don't dislike it and I do have a Microsoft account. It's probably just me being lazy and also I don't want to have pay after the 3 months or lose access to their catalog. I much rather buy the games outright, even on Windows Store exclusives titles in the past.

[F.U.D.F.]

Originally posted by Twitch - SophaliciouS_Systematic:

Originally posted by patrick68794:

It's not a matter of affording it lol it literally can't be done in a few weeks for a game like FH5 and there was no business reason for them to do it after release either. It's a huge amount of work to port games between different platforms. It would also be a waste of time for them to add the functionality specific to the UWP version of the game to the Win32 version just to add it to the Windows store.

You completely ignored the second and more important sentence.

He aint have no answer probs

[Dyna]

Without competition the quality of games will drop even further while prices will increase.

In any case a short term strategy with a huge profit potential as we rapidly approach a stage where all we will need is a screen and connection, but it is still a few years out when looking at quality and latency.

I am against selling Steam to Microsoft because you have something here that MS lacks from my point of view, That is a community where you can more or less express your views and just be a gamer without the hassle of subscriptions and other predatory business models that will follow if competition is eliminated.

And how will developers be able to negotiate with MS if they sit on the entire market. So no thanks to Gamepass their game library is 99% junk for a guy like me anyway.

Ill buy that 1% that i consider quality here and just play my old games that i like to stick with until the day comes that something better is developed. And seeing gaming being more and more simplified every year tells me that those gems will never ever be replaced. especially not under the supervision of MS as it is too mainstream for me to care about it.

Ill pick this walking simulator up at some point i guess, but right now i am just too busy building a huge ship in Space Engineers to spend those 5 hours on this for now.

Peace.

[patrick68794]

Originally posted by Twitch - SophaliciouS_Systematic:

Originally posted by patrick68794:

It's not a matter of affording it lol it literally can't be done in a few weeks for a game like FH5 and there was no business reason for them to do it after release either. It's a huge amount of work to port games between different platforms. It would also be a waste of time for them to add the functionality specific to the UWP version of the game to the Win32 version just to add it to the Windows store.

You completely ignored the second and more important sentence.

I did.

[Kludo]

I don't like subscriptions.

[PawgaliciouS QueeN]

Originally posted by patrick68794:

Originally posted by Twitch - SophaliciouS_Systematic:

You completely ignored the second and more important sentence.

I did.

Oh right, you totally addressed the elephant in the room, the steam version.

[patrick68794]

Originally posted by Twitch - SophaliciouS_Systematic:

Originally posted by patrick68794:

I did.

Oh right, you totally addressed the elephant in the room, the steam version.

I did, I'm sorry you didn't understand what was said.

[acowsik]

For me personally, the only games I would play on Gamepass are ones that actually need an XBOX account to be which for the most part would be first party studio game franchises like Gears or Halo.

To the point someone made about having all games in one place, I have this caveat... if a game on Steam still ends up requiring a third party launcher to launch a game, using Steam for that game makes zero sense to me at least. Examples are Rockstar or EA titles that need their launchers no matter what. I would rather eliminate Steam from the picture and just use their launcher directly instead. One less level of red tape to deal with.

[=Palynzer=]

Subscription sux, MS sux.

[𝕭𝖔𝖆𝖌𝖗𝖎𝖚𝖘]

Becaus subscriptions = slavery.
F.ck subscriptions.

[Butcher]

Originally posted by VongolaXth:

Like.. why do people prefer to pay 40$ more than the Game Pass 10 bucks? What exactly makes them waste their money even tho they could save SO MUCH money? Are they rich?

Gamepass includes set of games. Some of which you might like, some of which you don't care about and some of which you might dislike.

Gamepass owner will distribute your money among them all despite the fact that some games you like spending 50+ hours in and some you dislike playing 0-5 minutes and never launching again. Everybody gets rewarded. A little bit dishonest, isn't it?

This effectively removes customer power to affect market. You can't boycott game on gamepass, you will eat what they bring you. As a result it has big potential to affect industry in a very negative way - when devs don't even have to try if they get included in gamepass. It has big potential in pushing certain sort of propaganda aswell since they will get paid regardless of customer opinions.

In conclusion, you willingly give up your freedoms (in this particular case freedom to vote with your wallet) for the convenience of cheap games (there are cheaper ways bruh). Make problems - offer solutions, every single time. Problem - games are more and more expensive, solution - let them own nothing and they will be happy.

[Amaka]

Depends what kind of player you are. Gamepass is great for people who like to try everything and switch games like crazy. I want to have my game in my library. If i am just subscribing to a service i might as well get the game for free from somewhere else if you know what I mean.