Indie Pass, a Subscription Service for Indie Games, Launches on PC - IGN

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• quack@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Another subscription service. Woohoo.

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  • CodenameDarlen@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But this one is good.

    “look at us we’re helping indie games and not just that but helping gamers to help indie devs. We’re a good company, we’re almost jesus christ of capitalism”

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    • MagnificentSteiner@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Shhh, don’t tell them that buying indie games helps indie devs even more!

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  • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m not uniformly opposed to subscriptions as a concept. That almost goes as far as “paying money for products is anti consumer”.

    Even when it comes to a smaller sum, I see the attraction to companies: It’s reliable revenue, which makes business and payment of employees more stable.

    That said, it relies on the consumer constantly knowing they have the option of leaving without “lock in” persuasion, and the product being decent value. Obviously, we’ve seen hundreds of anti-consumer subscriptions.

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• Ok_imagination@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ugh fuck off with your subscriptions

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• TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Unless indie devs are getting guarantees for revenue that aren’t tied to playtime numbers I don’t see how these indie devs aren’t just getting scammed and wouldn’t be better off by figuring out how much money they’d need to put into advertising to make the same amount of sales to make the same or more revenue than they would by putting them on a subscription

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  • Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    From what I’ve heard they’re having trouble convincing devs to join so I think you’re spot on

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• arcine@jlai.lu ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  No thanks ! Terrible idea.

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• als@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Don’t IGN own humble already?

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• OriginEnergySux@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wait until subscription within subscriptions become a thing

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  • Paradachshund@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s called an add-on and it’s existed for decades.

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• Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  you don’t need a subscription to use bittorrent.

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  • Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah, but that doesn’t support indie devs.

    Do you seriously pirate indie games? Against AAA there’s at least a sense of inflammatory rebellion. What’s the thought process there?

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    • Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The thought process is I don’t pay for things I can get for free.

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