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I understand this may make sense to some users, but the whole concept of subscribing to games just makes me... Very uneasy. You stop paying, and suddenly your console is an empty paperweight (yiffit.net)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by WhoRoger@lemmy.world to c/fucksubscriptions@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://yiffit.net/post/475688

Xbox Game Pass Core subscribers will get access to a small selection of the games available with the regular/higher tiers of Game Pass, starting with more than 25 games

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2 years ago I had to move to a temp place. First evening, I unpacked my PS3 which I hadn't had time for for a long time. Lots of games on it (and on discs), so I could just sit and play Journey.

Had all my games had been this subscription sort, I'd have nothing.

Now I know you can still buy games - for now, anyway. But since these companies make you pay for multiplayer anyway, it's an easy upsell for them. Just pay a bit more and you can play so many games... Just pay forever.

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[–] WhoRoger@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Help me with the math. A typical game costs 70-80 €$£ if I'm not mistaken. 20% of that is 16. This subscription is between 10 and 17 (so it says anyway, I don't know the details).

So at best you can save 6 and get the subscription. Okay, I guess, but to me it sounds like a ploy to get you hooked to the subscription.

Or, we can take as a given that the 70 price of a game is just the basic tier and a "proper" version costs 100+. Fine, we can take that with the sub it can get cheaper, but then the user gets fucked either way.

Or we can buy multiple full-priced games a month. Ok fine, but then the rub is that some months you may not buy any games at all, and then if you forget to cancel, there go the savings.

What am I missing? As I said, I get that it may make sense for some people, but overall this whole thing smells like a scheme where the company creates a problem and is selling you the solution.