Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales

EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• BilboBargains@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s the business model that shareholders love and seems to be fairly ubiquitous. Eventually these corporations undergo trial by anti trust as their influence becomes increasingly toxic e.g. Google. The concentration of power into the hands of a few people is a problem with large hierarchies generally, ordinary people end up doing whacky stuff on the whim of someone that you never meet or know in any meaningful way.

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  • Croquette@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    We haven’t seen antitrust with teeths for a while now.

    Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Apple should have been broken up in a million little pieces a long time ago, but it won’t happen.

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  • Ledivin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Eventually these corporations undergo trial by anti trust as their influence becomes increasingly toxic e.g. Google.

    lol, feel free to let me know when any actual consequences come from that

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    • BilboBargains@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The consequences so far have been a warm feeling on hearing the news but I’m starting to doubt that feeling. Shawty, are they playing me like a fiddle?

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  • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The only part of the gamepass that is monopolistic is the friends network it creates.

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• sheogorath@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  One of the shit thing is that all the games that I’ve bought in the last 5 years all has come into game pass.

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• dickalan@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I canceled it when I canceled every other subscription except real debrid

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