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

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”?

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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.

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- 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 😁
  
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  - pycorax@sh.itjust.works ⁨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?
    
    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.
    
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    Dyskolos@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Oh I just assume single-player, because renting multiplayer might seem a bit silly, as people tend to play them very long or loose interest quickly.
    
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