Microsoft's Game Pass service now has over 15 million subscribers

[WYP]

That's a growth of over 5 million since April.



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[YOUDIEMOFO]

Saweeeeeeeet!! This service is simply bad ass!! It's nice to be able to try so many games all the time.

Always changing them out and you never known what deal you might run into...

 

[Daiyus]

At this rate I can see the concept of buying individual games completely dying, with the only way to access new titles to be subscribing to the correct service.

I can't support these services as I switch around my games a lot, which would mean multiple subscriptions, which would wind up more expensive than my current strategy of buying what I want to play at a price I'm willing to pay.

It's the same reason I dislike movie/TV streaming. It's now so disjointed that if I were to go for that route I'd be swapping my subscription every month to watch what I wanted, or paying through the nose for various subscriptions to access everything I want.

 

[Warchild]

Well yes, but I feel that streaming services has killed piracy, or at least ruined it.

Before streaming, everyone would download their games and movies. Nowadays you can have them anyway without worrying about.exe cracks or disabled multiplayer etc etc. Its just so convenient.

Big titles benefit from services but I think the small indie games might suffer. Those who need to full revenue.

 

[grec]

My friends at Bytten Studio says Game Pass ends up being great for them indie devs, apparently they get far more money from a game being on there than they'd often get for a game at all, apparently always well beyond the equivalent they'd get in sales, Microsoft really splashing the cash to keep the indies around.