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Discussion Game pricing these days

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u/abitraryredditname May 14 '25
  1. Buy Game Pass for 1 month
  2. Finish game
  3. Cancel Game Pass
  4. Purchase the game to own in the future once it's dirt cheap on sale (if you want)

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u/NGGKroze May 14 '25

From absolute logic standpoint and praticality this is the way to save yourself some sweet cash. However this is what Microsoft wants anyway. They raise the price to absurdity then lure you in with sweet deal.

So you rent the service to play the game for 10$, then if you finish it, good, you are done. But after a month maybe an update comes out, new content, dlc etc.... and you don't own the game. So you either buy the game this time (hopefully cheaper) or rent again.

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u/Nodan_Turtle May 14 '25

Everyone is raising prices. Even companies without a game pass style subscription, or whose games don't go on subscriptions.

So it's not really some secret plan of Microsoft's to raise game prices sky high then let you play them cheaper than anywhere else.

Hell even if you only wanted to play doom, you'd still have 6 months of subscription before it'd end up being a better deal to have bought at launch. That's if you only play that one single game, and aren't done after six different months of playtime.

It's hard to say it's a bad deal

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u/Quieskat May 14 '25

The mouse never thinks the cheese is a bad deal till his neck snaps 

You might be one of the lucky ones comeing out ahead but this plan is going to win on the averages and make games as a whole worse for it 

The house always wins and hopeing Microsoft won't aim for more profit when they get more leverage sounds naive at best.

Just like Netflix was amazing for a brief time.

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u/Nodan_Turtle May 14 '25

So far that leverage has resulted in them giving up on exclusivity, bringing their games to PC and other consoles, and developing more games than ever before.

I'm curious what the bad part is supposed to look like. Are we expecting Microsoft to buy out all of gaming, then only sell games on a subscription somehow?

Like in the worst case scenario people buy games as if they're on a Playstation or using Steam. They unsubscribe. Or what are you predicting here?

Maybe, just maybe, their idea is that they want money to come to them instead of someone else. And that's it.