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• echo64@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The worrying aspect is that they seem to be trying to make non gamepass users pay for the development of gamepass games.

  Gamepass is a massive drain on Microsoft, and numbers appear to have flatlined and not enough to pay for all the games made by Bethesda, Id, obsidian, Activision, blizzard and so much more.

  So now I think they want to get non gamepass users to pay for the development and have gamepass users get the same deal they always did. Which is imo setting the industry up for some very turbulent times in the future as the cost of gamepass is buried under this, and the Xbox platform is further weakened as it gets deeper into the “no one buys games” pit.

  But also less exclusives is good

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  • ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Gamepass is a massive drain on Microsoft

    How so?

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    • Zorque@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Licensing and making games probably costs more than the revenue from subscriptions, would be my guess.

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      • ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Considering how many subscribers they have and the cost, they are making a heck of a lot. They own many of the titles on there now with the Bethesda takeover. I can’t imagine they would agree to any deal that would put them in such a position again (licensing costing more than subs, it would scale), after what they did with the contracts for the original Xbox whereby cost did not decrease on some of the hardware (or something weird like that).

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• Ashtear@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If it’s part of a shift that includes dropping Xbox hardware, that’s very much not a good thing. Less competition doesn’t turn out well for consumers.

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  • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh like not making an Xbox console anymore?

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    • Ashtear@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah. Between these rumors and Microsoft not having a next-gen GPU contract yet, it’s a possibility.

      Hope I’m wrong.

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• altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah but the Xbox fanboys are seething and Sony fanboys are whetting their lips at the thought of Starfield on ps5.

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  • TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yo of all the games to be hungry for, Starfield ain’t one lmao

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    • garretble@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yeah, I don’t think anyone is really that excited for Starfield at this point.

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  • stopthatgirl7@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ve yet to see a single PS person excited about getting Starfield. At most, they’re like, “Oh, that’s nice,” and go back to doing other things.

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    • altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I was being sarcastic. No one cares about Starfield.

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  • SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    And everyone else just realizes how bad this means things are going for the gaming industry as a whole.

    This isn’t good news for anyone who likes actually owning their games instead of just having a license, if they own a console.

    That ship sailed in PC gaming forever ago, which is honestly fine considering storefronts like GOG exist, but it’s still going to be a gut-punch to people who have invested financially heavily in the Xbox ecosystem.

    It’s going to mean smaller selections of games, more gambling/gacha bullshit, and “you’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy” will dominate the industry. When licensing runs out for music, they’ll just pull a game instead of trying to “fix” it, if it’s not profitable enough. We’re entering an era where there will be a dead-zone of lost media and history because so much of it is increasingly locked up behind corporate barriers.

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    • djsoren19@yiffit.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s going to mean smaller selections of games, more gambling/gacha bullshit, and “you’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy” will dominate the industry. When licensing runs out for music, they’ll just pull a game instead of trying to “fix” it, if it’s not profitable enough. We’re entering an era where there will be a dead-zone of lost media and history because so much of it is increasingly locked up behind corporate barriers.

      I have some bad news about the past few years for you…

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  • KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Of all the games you want, Starfield is not one of them.

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    • altima_neo@lemmy.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sarcasm, yo.

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