Microsoft has changed its popular £1/$1 monthly trial offer for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and PC, to now only grant…

Earlier in the year they removed the trial offer. Now it’s returned, but worse than before.

  • echo64@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    When it reaches $15/20 a month it’ll already be too late.

    It’s the exact same model that ruined all the other entertainment industries.

    1. Offer a subscription for next to nothing, funded by vc money/microsoft infinite money buckrts. The industry doesn’t mind because people are still buying things on cd/dvd/bluray so it’s just extra money for them.
    2. Oh no, everyone now just subscribes to the super cheap subscription, and the industry can’t afford to produce content just for spotify/netflix/gamepass
    3. Every content owner pulls content from the incumbent subscription service, starts their own, and you can’t buy the content for money anymore.
    4. Turns out $15 a month isn’t enough to pay for everything the industry usually makes, content lowers in quality, prices go up. Everyone loses.

    Paying into subscription services now is a good deal for you, but it’s gonna ruin everything just like it did everywhere else.

    • pavlov@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I think it’s interesting that this isn’t working as well in the pc world. Epic giving away games for free doesn’t seem to be affecting sales numbers on steam (thinking of how incredibly well Baldurs Gate 3 is selling). I can’t imagine Xbox games not on game pass are selling as well as they used to. I’m sure there’s impacts I’m not seeing, but on the surface it looks less successful.

      • dan1101@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        It’s funny, my Steam games are like physical items out on my desk where I can see them every day, every time I turn on my computer. The free games I claim on Epic are like physical items in a drawer somewhere, that’s the Epic Games client. Not quite sure what I have in that drawer until I open it and search through it.