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      8 months ago

      It’s not the already released games they’re excited about. It’s the IP ownership. Why create something new when you can recycle old ideas for cheaper?

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      Maybe I’m a bit of a luddite but many of those “outdated” games have far better gameplay and stories than games today.

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          Yes, good games exist today, that doesn’t mean lots of games aren’t also terrible live service cash grabs.

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            Yes, good games exist today, that doesn’t mean lots of games aren’t also terrible live service cash grabs.

            So, just like older games?

            I’m interested in this period of time where all video games were good and no greed was involved.

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                You said that modern games were terrible cash grabs, which it’s different from how games “used to be”. So I’m interested in which period of time “used to be” actually encompasses.

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    8 months ago

    Excited about renting it out to you a month at a time with an ever increasing cost

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      For now, at least, Game Pass is definitely the best deal in subscriptions these days. It’s honestly wild to me that it’s not more expensive.

      But for sure give it time and it’ll be like $500 a year.

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        Netflix a decade ago. Wow, this is so amazing. What a deal. How could it go wrong

        Netflix today, okay, which subscription service to we get this month, I want to watch this show, but Sarah wants to watch that show and the other show we were watching got deleted from the service so we just can’t watch that one. If only we could learn from this situation

        Gamepass is a “great deal” because Microsoft office pays for it.

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          Netflix was cheap because no one valued streaming rights initially, and thus there was little competition for those rights. Once companies realized how valuable the service was, prices shot up.

          One of those strange situations where increased competition increased prices.

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            Yes, that makes the gamepass situation even more egregious. Everyone knows the cost of making games, but only Microsoft can afford to literally lose money for a decade to secure dominance.

            No one can compete because everyone else has to run a real business

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    Honestly, there aren’t many games in their back catalogue that I’m interested in. Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Hexen and Warcraft 3 maybe, there may be more but those are the ones that come to mind. But I’m not invested in those enough to want to subscribe to Game Pass or buy an Xbox.

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    Honestly though, if they can allow me to play call of duty without the dumb launcher, I’d be happy. The launcher was only one of the many reasons I opted not to buy MW3

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    Bringing back Guitar Hero and making it Xbox exclusive would surely turn some heads.

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      That’s the question isn’t it? I believe they’ve already stated not to expect anything before the end of the year. But we’ll see how long it takes for turned to show up after that.