The point is it hasn’t happened, you are just being pessimistic because “Microsoft Bad”. You have no clue if gamepass is losing money, none whatsoever. Your pessimism wants it to go bad so you make up bullshit to support your opinion.
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TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 year agoIt’s not a crazy what if, it’s a tried and tested, proven business strategy.
Currently Microsoft is losing money on gamepass. That’s why they lump it in with other services in their financials, so you can’t see the losses. The pricing as it stands is nowhere near sustainable
I never said it’s not currently a good deal. Those are words that you’re trying to shove into my mouth.
It’s a good deal now because they’re having the price low while they capture the market.
ChronosWing@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
There’s a reason why MS has never said gamepass is profitable and they hide its finances. Because it isn’t profitable.
And if you genuinely don’t think MS will increase the prices then you genuinely cannot be helped. It’s how every digital subscription service is run.
ChronosWing@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Once again you are making assumptions. And I never said they wouldn’t raise prices, you keep putting words in my mouth. The type of price increase you seem to think will happen is definitely beyond the realm of reality, at least at this time. There’s no way they are going to double the subscription cost and expect to keep their current subscription numbers.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m not the one putting words into mouths.
Pantoffel@feddit.de 1 year ago
Yes, I totally agree with what you said. They currently try to buy out the digital gaming space of the internet, sell it for cheap and later on up the price. That’s what big corporations usually do nowadays. Same with X, Google, Amazon, Netflix, etc. It’s a big issues that we as consumers and later on citizens of our planet face.
However, currently it is a sweet deal for me. And the argument that I’d own the game otherwise doesn’t count for me as I would most probably never replay it.
The argument of whose property the item is is different for me for movies, series, and audiobooks. I’m surprised that this scheme was not yet applied for books / e-books. Or am I wrong?
ChronosWing@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
It is applied to ebooks. Tons of subscription services for ebooks, the biggest being Amazon Prime and Scribd.