Game Pass will "either kill everyone else, or give up", says Dishonored and Prey dev Arkane founder

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• cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I tried GamePass PC until a whole bunch of my favourite games disappeared. So I had to buy them in the end l, which, given steam’s usual deals, was about the same as keeping my subscription. It’s not a great deal for discerning customers and people will notice.

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  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I had a free trial for PC and came to a similar conclusion. It’s a good way to try some games, but the value proposition isn’t great for long term unless you constantly play new games. Also the download speed was atrocious.

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    • Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      value proposition isn’t great for long term unless you constantly play new games.

      This. I never understood why people bothered with this mess in the first place, you need to be playing a new game like every two-three months to make this worth it/cheaper than just buying a $60 game. Which I think would be extremely hard for some games like RPGs that might take 100hrs to beat, especially if you have a life/obligations. I was busy with college, so Metaphor Re:fantazio took me like 5 months to beat, so a gamepass would be more expensive that buying the damn thing.

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• nebulaone@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Dishonored and Prey dev Arkane founder

  The fuck is that sentence structure? This reeks of AI.

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  • hoch@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    His full name is Arkane Cornelius Founder IV, but it was a bit long for the title.

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  • Damage@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ai writes better than that

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    • nebulaone@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think the AI couldn’t differentiate between name and job title.

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• LiveLM@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Come back Arkane Austin, I need a sequel to Prey 😢

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• Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  “The service will succeed or fail”. Not much of a hot take, even though I agree with his sentiment.

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  • dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The point is the destructive potential of it succeeding.

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• belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Its a bad deal, they want to force by making games exclusive except they just fired all of the game makers so uh…

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• Horse@lemmygrad.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Arkane founder and WolfEye president Raphael Colantonio has taken to socials to ask why no-one is talking about “the elephant in the room”, Xbox Game Pass.

  because it isn’t that popular, i know like one person who has a subscription for it

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