My g/f has been on the gamepass for the entire year that I have known her, and in that time has purchased one game, when it was removed from game pass. I tried out game pass for 1 month so I could access diablo 4 so we could play together on the pass, (I play on PC,) which had many other I wanted to play, like clair obscur expedition 33 and Frost Punk 2. The blizzard laucher has had some D4 free trials that I was able to do without a game pass sub, but sadly no cross platform play. During my time with gamepass I realized that for the cost of 2-3 months of game pass, I could own one of the games I wanted.
My g/f and I have had this discussion over and over. Eventually games get removed from the pass, meaning you lose access to a title unless you purchase it. Game pass is in essence a subscription model to demo games. Game demos used to be free. I remember getting disc demos for ps1 and ps2 games. Hell even some games on steam still offer free demos. Paying a subscription to demo and/or beta test a game is bonkers. I told my g/f I have no control over how she spends her disposable income, but I’m not paying for the pass. (I’m 10 years older than her, so I remember a time when you owned the games you bought, rather than paying rent to have access, which likely contributes to our difference in opinion.) I would straight up stop gaming all together if steam started charging a subscription to access the games I bought.
If MS was smart, they would pull a game from the pass after 1-3 months. People that feel they really enjoyed it are more likely to buy it, and others that thought the game was meh were never going to buy it anyway. But some of these games they have kept on the pass for 6 months or more. Based on the fact that they put one of their own franchises on the pass, these fuckers are not smart. They are robbing the studio that made the game to inflate game pass sub numbers.
My g/f has been on the gamepass for the entire year that I have known her, and in that time has purchased one game, when it was removed from game pass. I tried out game pass for 1 month so I could access diablo 4 so we could play together on the pass, (I play on PC,) which had many other I wanted to play, like clair obscur expedition 33 and Frost Punk 2. The blizzard laucher has had some D4 free trials that I was able to do without a game pass sub, but sadly no cross platform play. During my time with gamepass I realized that for the cost of 2-3 months of game pass, I could own one of the games I wanted.
My g/f and I have had this discussion over and over. Eventually games get removed from the pass, meaning you lose access to a title unless you purchase it. Game pass is in essence a subscription model to demo games. Game demos used to be free. I remember getting disc demos for ps1 and ps2 games. Hell even some games on steam still offer free demos. Paying a subscription to demo and/or beta test a game is bonkers. I told my g/f I have no control over how she spends her disposable income, but I’m not paying for the pass. (I’m 10 years older than her, so I remember a time when you owned the games you bought, rather than paying rent to have access, which likely contributes to our difference in opinion.) I would straight up stop gaming all together if steam started charging a subscription to access the games I bought.
If MS was smart, they would pull a game from the pass after 1-3 months. People that feel they really enjoyed it are more likely to buy it, and others that thought the game was meh were never going to buy it anyway. But some of these games they have kept on the pass for 6 months or more. Based on the fact that they put one of their own franchises on the pass, these fuckers are not smart. They are robbing the studio that made the game to inflate game pass sub numbers.