Comment on Xbox wanted 77M Game Pass subscribers by 2026 — today it has less than half that
pycorax@sh.itjust.works 3 days agoI’m not sure if I’m understanding this correctly but I get the impression that you’re applying game pass to every game you want to play. If that’s the case yea, it doesn’t make sense to get game pass. But for most people, we’re getting game pass for games that we wouldn’t have bought anyways or it’s for a game we’re fairly positive we can finish within the month and don’t plan to play after. I think there’s reasons why, it’s just not a reason that can be applied to every game or person.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
It never made sense, hence i never used it, despite getting keys for it gifted regularly. But, what made me wonder in your comment, why do you want to play a game you wouldn’t have bought? Too shitty to buy, good enough to play? Or is it “too expensive for my interests to buy, but interesting enough to play a while for some lil bucks”?
pycorax@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
More of the latter. A triple A costs 70-80 USD now on release and it’s hard to justify that cost when game pass let’s me play that plus a bunch of other stuff for a month for a fraction of that price. Even if I take 3 months to finish it, I’m still spending less than I would’ve from buying it out right. Plus if I do lose interest past the first month, I can just stop right there.
Dyskolos@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
And if you play it over the course of 2 months and reaalllllyyyy like it and wanna buy, then you paid even more?
I rarely buy AAA on release. If they aren’t crap they’re unoptimized. I usually just wait a year or longer and buy when it’s fixed or don’t if they didn’t care. Been burnt too many times 😁
pycorax@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Well if I go with this method, these are usually singleplayer games that I’m fairly confident I can finish within a few months and won’t really play more than that so it hasn’t ever reached that point for me at least.