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Baldur’s Gate 3 boss says gamers don’t want mass subscriptions (www.pcgamesn.com)

submitted 1 year ago by inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world to c/pcgaming@lemmy.world

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Always good to see someone in the industry push back on all of these shitty tactics the AAA publishers want to push.

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

And just like netflix, the goal is to get people hooked on the service and up prices/squeeze out money in other ways once they hit a good amount of market share.

GamePass right now is unsustainable. That's why Microsoft never talks about it making profit, and they obscure GamePass in their financials by rolling it in to another business grouping. On top of that, there's also Phil Spencer in the FTC leaks saying not as many people have signed up as he'd have liked.

[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The industry is already squeezing us by charging literally 10 times the sub price for a new AAA game.