Why dont steam have a game pass ? in 2023

[Lone Wolf]

why dont steam have a game pass like E.A. play / Ubisoft+ / xbox game pass
Pay a one month and get 100,s games pic from for that month or year.

Thoughts

[Mad Scientist]

Not everyone has to do the same thing. Steam allows others to do so but has shown no interest in doing such.

They're perfectly profitable as-is & so are the Developers whom will make more with 1 copy sold than being in a 'game pass'. "If it isn't broken, don't fix it".

[Zarineth]

Valve said they don't want any game passes, but are OK woth others bringing their own to Steam.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by 😡 GUNSMOKE999 😡:

Why dont steam have a game pass ? in 2023

why dont steam have a game pass like E.A. play / Ubisoft+ / xbox game pass
Pay a one month and get 100,s games pic from for that month or year.

Thoughts

GabeN doesn't want to make his own.

And GabeN would work with MS to bring Gamepass to Steam, if they want to.

https://www.pcgamer.com/valve-has-no-plans-for-a-steam-pass-but-would-help-microsoft-put-game-pass-on-steam/

[Lone Wolf]

Would thought steam in 2023 would had some sort games pass just be in tune with them all i was looking at xbox pass last night 50 pounds u.k. get me one full year.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by 😡 GUNSMOKE999 😡:

Would thought steam in 2023 would had some sort games pass just be in tune with them all i was looking at xbox pass last night 50 pounds u.k. get me one full year.

GabeN doesn't want to fork out millions to devs/pubs to have them on a Game Pass.

[Mad Scientist]

Originally posted by 😡 GUNSMOKE999 😡:

Would thought steam in 2023 would had some sort games pass just be in tune with them all i was looking at xbox pass last night 50 pounds u.k. get me one full year.

Everyone doing the same thing is not "in tune".
Now split all of those games by number of games available through it in a full year. Now take 30% of a cut off of the profits and the rest of the 70% is divided among the Developers of those other games. Not much compared to selling one single copy, is it? Ends up being 8c or 14c per dev per year for xbox/pc games available if you're paying 50/Yr. You'd need a lot of subscribers to make a fair income for all parties.

[Start_Running]

Because they don'ty want one. Likely because the actual profitability of such a thing is heavily debateable.
Now Any developer can create a gamepass for their games. EA does that with EA Play. Most however prefer to actually get paid reasonably for their games.

[Brian9824]

Originally posted by Mad Scientist:

Originally posted by 😡 GUNSMOKE999 😡:

Would thought steam in 2023 would had some sort games pass just be in tune with them all i was looking at xbox pass last night 50 pounds u.k. get me one full year.

Everyone doing the same thing is not "in tune".
Now split all of those games by number of games available through it in a full year. Now take 30% of a cut off of the profits and the rest of the 70% is divided among the Developers of those other games. Not much compared to selling one single copy, is it? Ends up being 8c or 14c per dev per year for xbox/pc games available if you're paying 50/Yr. You'd need a lot of subscribers to make a fair income for all parties.

Yep, wouldn't be smart for steam to organize something that would undercut its own profits. They already offer the ability for anyone to offer it thru steam, including microsoft. So if others want to spend the time and money negotiating wtih hundreds of different developers and working out the vastly tangled payment schemes they can and steam will take their 30%.

[nullable]

Originally posted by 😡 GUNSMOKE999 😡:

Would thought steam in 2023 would had some sort games pass just be in tune with them all i was looking at xbox pass last night 50 pounds u.k. get me one full year.

I always like the "In 20XX" posts, where that years is some kind of imagined deadline where every business should be copying what other businesses are doing.

Valve, MS, Ubisoft, EA are all different companies. They're allowed to do different things.

Whatever you assume and whatever arbitrary deadlines you assumed your assumptions should have been fulfilled by is all just stuff you made up without any information.

Why would you think that? What information did you use to come to those conclusions. Who at Valve led you to believe Valve would be following suit with their own subscription service? Since you didn't really have any information, why did you think it was appropriate to just assume it? "It would be nice if?"

Yeah, maybe. I don't mind subscriptions myself. But I don't assume everyone must implement them either.

[DC-GS]

Just a reminder about how a lot of people told, Valve should copy Epic, because Valve is losing etc...
https://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/0/3874841497810497925/
Valve made own decision. It paid off.

Also, why noone mentioned, there is a "Valve-Gamepass" allready? It's called the orange box.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by DC-GS:

Also, why noone mentioned, there is a "Valve-Gamepass" allready? It's called the orange box.

Because The Orange Box is not a subscription.