Literally because of threads like this. For all the talk about how "greedy" stockholders are, it's actually places like this that take any news besides MS being #1 in some area of the business as being doom and gloom.
Hostile in what way? Because name one dev that has said anything like that? And now we are talking about sales on the eshop? You have nothing backing up any of this. Products go on sale all the time. And as I said, there is no history of a subscription service causing any industry to eliminate direct sales. You using the "small indies" line in the paranoia I have been talking about.
That's true enough, I just think that people who say "Nothing" has been done by microsoft that signals a shift are crazy.
So you can't name a dev that has said that...because there is none. Literally one company expressed a concern, a publisher that had no involvement with GamePass to know anything more than you do...and then weeks later, committed to putting two of their games on the service. Have a nice day!
Concerns about devs based on what? From comments or discussion from who? Then you say you don't need any evidence. It's professional concern trolling. As long as GamePass has been out, and the hundreds of A/AA/AAA devs with games on there...not a peep. And not to mention devs giving games away for free on Epic and Twitch...it's almost like they are getting money from these services.
Because they need to spend a lot of money to get the service off the ground (game development, third party deals etc.). And so far Gamepass has been dirt cheap on several occasions. They're not getting anywhere close to 10 bucks per subscriber at the moment.
If you're saying that Microsoft would be releasing all those games a year, your numbers are so off it's kinda sad. Unless you think 2 million copies sold for the AAA games is "good." It goes even less once you have to divide the money earned between AA and indie.
We live in a bubble friend who really knows how many people took advantage of those deals. Certainly everyone I know but my circle is hard core gamers. I could literally say with all the buzz gamepass is getting its gotta have 10mil subs, 1 mil subs, making money, not making money but it means absolutely nothing because we have no proof other than what MS and devs who put their games on gamepass say (both of which say its great). Of course Phil is going to shout some PR speak anyone in his shoes would but instead of outright lying saying they are making money and using it to invest why not just dodge the question?
This is an embarrassing post
He doesn't say that though, you're putting words in his mouth and taking them out of context.
