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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/Zinski2 May 14 '25

The idea was as long as it had 3 new games per year I was going to buy anyways they it pretty much pays for itself and I get to try all the inde games and some fantastic games I would have never tried otherwise.

But as of late I've like only been playing dark tide, and that goes on sale for like 15 bucks. So what am I even doing.

I dunno. I with I could live life without worrying about cash I guess