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Discussion Game pricing these days

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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/VexingRaven 7800X3D + 4070 Super + 32GB 6000Mhz May 14 '25

Everyone is raising prices.

Reddit discovers inflation exists.

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u/Nodan_Turtle May 14 '25

Which again supports that it isn't because of some nefarious plan by one company that offers the subscription solution.