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Comment on Xbox wanted 77M Game Pass subscribers by 2026 — today it has less than half that

Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

Why? As if steam and co aren’t bad enough in the sense of renting-not-owning. This is literal renting.
No mods
Microsoft is so untrustworthy. Why subscribe to something that is probably gone tomorrow. They half-assed or killed so many projects…
Pressure…when will the game vanish that I just installed?

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Prox@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Look I know it’s cool to hate on Microslop, but c’mon.

People are largely fine with renting when they can rent a shit ton of stuff at the same time. This is Netflix for video games, and it’s actually done well (compared to whatever the fuck PS tries to do).

Mods are niche. The type of person who buys a console already knows they aren’t going to get mods.

Game Pass has a strong track record of giving plenty of advance notice for both additions and removals from service. And they offer discounts on all games that are about to go away.

See #3. This is a made up strawman issue.

Microsoft is fucked from a business perspective, but Game Pass was a great idea and a great offering right up until they fucked themselves from a business perspective by buying Activision for an ocean of money.
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- NOT_RICK@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  There are also mods in some games on console, they just can’t use script extenders like PC modding often can.
  
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- Action_Bastid@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Microsoft have already erased everyone’s library once before when they shut down the original Games for Windows store. They already have a track record of showing they’re perfectly willing to yank everyone’s licenses and shut everything down until they decide they actually they do want to be in the games space again.
  
  Game Pass is already their second attempt at this, and there are a lot of people who don’t trust them not to rug pull again.
  
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  - ampersandrew@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    What rug pull? You pay a subscription and know exactly when they’re going to revoke your licenses.
    
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pycorax@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Games on Xbox Game Pass can be modded. Granted, it’s not as easy as something from Steam for the older games but saying they can’t is blatently false. Older games still require to take ownership of files but newer games give you full access. There’s a number of Forza Horizon 6 mods already.

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