That means easy enough access to FIFA, Minecraft & Fortnite for the common user. Those 3 games are a must have for any mainstream console.
If Gamepass starts supporting downloads on Steam, I will be able to ditch Windows completely. My kid wants to play FIFA (FC25), the most popular Football (soccer) game on earth, it’s literally the Call of Duty of sports. And to get him his fix, I keep my 3rd PC with Windows. If Gamepass comes to Steam, all my PCs will be running Bazzite (except the deck, running Steam OS).
I will truly never undestand the hard-on for gamepass. Have people learned nothing from Netflix/hulu/prime et al. The only thing separating us from a pile of trash software like the Atari days is the existence of fucking physical ownership. Seriously concerned about how dumb the average person is becoming. We have enshitification all around us but people are hell bent on the monolithic cancerous mass that is microsoft controlling more of the gaming space. Jesus fucking Christ!
If ever game pass is the only legal option for accessing a game, I’ll happily consider revising my opinion, until then increased choices is always more consumer friendly. People should make their own personal choices about which of those options work best for themselves, and just because one option is preferred by some people, doesn’t mean another can’t be preferable to others.
Exactly. As long as the games can bought (preferably physically, but at least digitally), I see no issue for this.
People should stop to keep their subscriptions when they do not use it. I subscribe to gamepass for 1 or 2 months, play all the games I am interested in, then stop it. If more people do that, the only way for Microsoft to keep subscribers is by improving its service to stay relevant.
Your reply is a red herring. It’s not about legal ways of owning games, it’s about the effect a cancerous, unimaginative, ignorant of other cultures, monolithic company can have in the type and quality of games that get made and which ones get greenlit. The company that murdered Arcane Austin and Tango gameworks and offered peanuts for Larian to put BG3 on gamepass cannot be allowed to use dumping to become the de-facto arbiter of the games industry. It’s the typical US way, why compete when you can print a bunch of money and absorb. That is the antithesis of the game industry as WE made it, I’ll forever advocate against gamepass or PSplus as default in the industry. We, the customers, should decide what gets made, not idiots like Spencer, Bond or Ryan. That is the true choice! Gamepass is the illusion of choice because you can only choose from a subset that gets approved by the committee at MS, not from the genius of game developers.