Games as a service seems to be the big pitch this E3. Nearly all the major publishers are offering their latest and greatest AAA titles on Subscriptions. Are you happy with this ?
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So Publishers dont seem to want our money upfront anymore...Subscription future it is !?
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I feel like this could really backfire. You need to deliver to keep me on board every month. I understand having something like Gamepass, but just for Ubisoft for example? I don't know...
Who wants money upfront when you can have a steady income every month for the foreseeable future.
It's like chasing mmo money round 2. Not surprised in the least as more games adopted a gaas model
Yeah. I'm on board. The services are way too expensive to keep month to month, but I'll gladly pay $15 for a month long rental of a new game + some back catalog stuff I might want to dip into. I'll buy any game I'll play for more than a month, but that isn't many
Yep. And also a monthly subscription at a low price gets more people to bite than $60 in one lump payment. Offering both is just the smart move going forward.
Yeah pretty sure. It's gonna be hard at some point going back to a €/$60 purchase for one game when you get hundreds to play for €/$15 month.
Gaming seems to go the way of tv and music now. People don't care of they own the stuff, they want to consume it for cheap. Probably will end up like the movie market. You sub to Netflix, but if you really love a movie you buy the Bluray. As long as I have the option to permanently buy any game I want to own I welcome these gaming passes.
Gaming seems to go the way of tv and music now. People don't care of they own the stuff, they want to consume it for cheap. Probably will end up like the movie market. You sub to Netflix, but if you really love a movie you buy the Bluray. As long as I have the option to permanently buy any game I want to own I welcome these gaming passes.
As long as I have the option to purchase the game outright so when my subscription lapses, i can still own the game than I don't care.
I think it'd be interesting to have some sort of algorithm that can prorate the cost of the game if I wanted to buy the game even though I know longer want to sub.
For example, if I put 100 hours into Gears of War 5 and then decide after 2 months that I don't care about the games im playing on GamePass so I unsub, but want to keep playing GoW5, can I purchase it for like 20 bucks.
I think it'd be interesting to have some sort of algorithm that can prorate the cost of the game if I wanted to buy the game even though I know longer want to sub.
For example, if I put 100 hours into Gears of War 5 and then decide after 2 months that I don't care about the games im playing on GamePass so I unsub, but want to keep playing GoW5, can I purchase it for like 20 bucks.
I'm not paying a combined $50 to $100 a month for various subscriptions to cover playing the various pubs' games. That is the fastest path for me to leave gaming entirely, in favor of spending more time on my other hobbies.
Just the ongoing trend of corporations finding ways to make sure all the money out there is shifting toward them while you acquire nothing of value for yourself. And why get paid once when you can get paid every month ongoing?
The Pubs pushing the subs in particular are the ones who struggle to put out high quality AAA games consistently. Xbox, EA, and now Ubisoft. A subscription helps reduce the effects of a bad AAA release. Anybody will try a game for $10+ a month.
We don't see Sony and Nintendo putting their AAA games on subscription, do we?
We don't see Sony and Nintendo putting their AAA games on subscription, do we?
Sadly yeah. I dont see how this is financially viable outside as a service for older games and GaaS - for those it can likely work great though.
For the one-off singleplayer games, it seems dangerous.
People have (wrongly) called out the death of singleplayer games for a long time. Maybe this is the thing that does it.
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