Subscription models like Xbox Game Pass are "not properly valuing" developers, says former Bethesda exec

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• viral.vegabond@piefed.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They know.

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• Master@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Everyone buying game pass for the value is selling out the future of gaming.

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• sj_zero ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Seems like one of those things that the bean counters really like, but it's not good for anyone. The customers end up getting a shittier experience, and the developers who make really good games end up really not getting their fair share because if a bunch of people sign up for game pass or something they are going to be subsidizing all the other companies that made games that didn't get people to sign up.

  I feel kind of Lucky in this regard, I got to realize very early on that the game subscription service is better on paper than in reality. Around 2007 there was a game subscription service called gametap. It was a pretty good service, lots of good games - really good games, but you had things like if a game that you liked came out of rotation it was gone, and you never owned anything so if you quit your subscription you lost everything in fact I'm pretty sure you even lost your sabe files with that service.

  Games that you love are really a thing that you want to own.

  • MrTolkinghoen@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah. I agree with this

    Additionally, GamePasses are designed to force developers to have to use them. If enough people are using it, they’re going to be way more resistant to paying additional money for a game that isn’t in the game pass. This means that it locks users into a platform, and takes the consumers away from the game makers meaning the developers lose. Lose if they are on the game pass, lose if they aren’t.

    Just another enshitification where the middleman is the only winner.

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