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Gamepass has made no money for ages, and it's bad for developers in the long run.

However it's pretty obvious they are trying to build a market for this kind of service, where you don't buy games anymore and just rent access.

They want to be Netflix for games, they don't want these console wars anymore cause they suck and can't compete.

Yea, I think they just took this code and had it give you another malignance coffer since the fallback was already there.

Like 100% of the people who do missions now are rank 1

And they only spam the adoulin repeat quest cycle to get high enough to progress

The requirement for missions is actually Adoulin Fame, and although the biggest factor on that is Imprimaturs, other quests partecipate. I had a character able to progress with "only" 12 imprimaturs spent because I did other Adoulin quests on it in the meantime - tho this was 2018 so I have no idea what I did.

Gobbie box will give you a random goblin item if your reward would have been something you already had. Same for abjuration dial IIRC

Lol.

Gamepass is for the time rich it seems. Who has time to play all this stuff.

Barely manage to go through a game every few years.

The wild part is that they couldn't check which pieces you already have and give you one you don't without forcing you to reopen the box. Must not have any custom handling on box use. Writing code to silently reroll until it's a valid piece would take less than 2 minutes for a private server.

Funny because nintendo disagreed with that after the NES was flooded with low quality unregulated games.

Sometimes even "bad" games have something worth experiencing.

Ok I think I get it, so long as you can do 5% on v25 (and are consistently doing V25s?), you'll always get enough RP back to justify an amplifier. Even if you're low on segs you can convert them back.

Alfania triple posted on you guys.

That sucks

MS are not a charity.

Come on people, let's be real.

Yes, you are right, there are several reasons a company would continue to prop up a service or product that makes no profit.

None apply to gamepass.

Unless either of you have any reasons to suggest why MS would increase prices other than to make profit.

Many reasons. Publicity. As a charity or charitable contribution. To collect salable data. To funnel people, or merely their clicks, to moneymaking parts of the company / service.

That's from 30 seconds of thought. Try thinking on the subject for a bit. You will find more.

A lot more, relative to what they pay game devs for access to their game library. MS doesn't publish profit numbers.

How do I know it's more? Because they offer the service to make money.

I know grown ups that pay for game pass because it used to be pretty cheap and gave you access to lots of games.

I always thought it's a scam and if I want to play a game I just buy it.

I have a rl question. Do grown ups pay for Gamepass or the PS equivalent? Honestly. Because I can see kids wanting Gamepass then playing one game a month.

The slim chance their game is an absolute banger and people go out of their way to buy a standalone copy to support the company that made the game.

see Clair Obscur, which was released on gamepass.

Revenue is not profit. Afaik MS only published revenue data not profit.

I tried to find profit margin for this particular services but I haven't found any data yet. Do you have data?

I don't make assumptions unless I see the data.

And let's say even if MS is massively profiting from Game Pass, why is that negative? I still don't understand.



The situation that Game pass is the only option for publishing games don't exist, what's the point to discuss it? Honestly if you are afraid of platform monopoly, Steam has FAR higher chance to become monopoly than Game Pass. The difference aren't even close.

The idea that people spam negativity on MS despite Steam is the absolute winner here also doesn't make sense.


But there ARE people who consume games very fast and they just aren't buying 5 $70 games per month. And sub services makes it possible for them to rotate games faster.

So again, why negative? If there are no market need for this then sub service will die. If there is a market need then why can't sub service exist for these people?

It's not like game dev's freedom to sell games on Steam is taken away by MS.

It just takes one person to take the lead. People hate setting up their own stuff. Always been that way.

Ah yea, that makes more sense. If you don't have access to your target NM on v25, there's some justification.

You're the one who brought up dev income from gamepass subscriptions.

gamepass is great for low budget indie devs, its great for AA+ games that are 5++ years old. Its *** horrible for brand new games to be released on subscription services like gamepass.

People are mostly fairly anti-social these days, they are not going to team up. If the option is wait an hour or team up, they are gonna wait an hour.

If you need proof of that, you only need to look at Einherjar.

The producer of DQX simply does not want to waste his devs time converting the game and then having to support western markets, he is happy doing what he is doing.

Square Enix have far less control over these games than people think they do, many of these games are run like mom and pop stores and SE simply funds them. If Fujito and the last 3 devs woke up tomorrow and said they are done the game would close. SE would not find more people and carry it on.

DQx was never converted cause the producer doesn't want to do it, SE don't force him to do so cause of money concerns. So because of that, it's never going to happen.

SE are not run like western companies, people really need to get that into their heads.

If anything, from what Yoshi P has said. they don't even really care about the JP audience that much anymore and see the west as the most important. That is literally what he said about ff16.