Steam Game Pass

[TRAIN FACTS]

I wish Steam would create a subscription service that was similar to Game Pass but way more integrated with Steam’s features. That’s the main reason I don’t pay for Microsoft’s Game Pass. Since I do a lot of my gaming on the Steam Deck it would be nice to have a subscription service that natively supported the best features of Steam like cloud saves and controller configuration.

[Leonardo Da Pinchi]

If Devs wanted their games to be part of a subscription service, they'd go and make their games part of one.

Given it seems a majority of them DON'T want that, and Steam can't force them to partake...it's unlikely Steam would have its own game subscription service (which is an available option to Devs to have their own)

[Start_Running]

Not gonna happen.
But there's nothing stopping microsoft or any other publisher from bringing their passes to steam. Valve will work with them on that. But tghey aren't going to approach them.

[Ben Lubar]

The problem is, how much would be fair to charge for it? Just because you don't decide which games you get to play doesn't mean it's any cheaper to develop or maintain those games, so the developers are going to want the listed price for their games. But players don't want to pay hundreds of dollars a month for access to the latest AAA games, so Microsoft pays for the difference out of their own pocket.

Valve doesn't have a reason to spend the resources setting up such a system that would only cause them to make less money and give gamers less choice.

But there are a few companies that have their own subscription passes, like EA, so if you play a lot of EA games, that's worth considering.

[Start_Running]

Yup. Because remember.
MS has been basically using their pass as a loss leader. Ie They're using it as a tool to apply competitive pressure on Nintendo and Sony. They're basically charging you less than it costs them just to screw over the other guys.

[Crazy Tiger]

GabeN already stated in an interview that Valve isn't interested in that.

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

GabeN already stated in an interview that Valve isn't interested in that.

This^.

GabeN doesn't want to add a subscription to Steam, at this time.

GabeN would work with MS to bring Gamepass to Steam or any other dev/pub that wants to add a subscription to Steam, if they want to. The same way they parneted with EA to bring them back to Steam along with EA Play.

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

https://www.ea.com/news/ea-and-valve-partnership