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Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales (i.imgur.com)
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[-] boletus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

But why would you buy a game if game pass exists?

[-] pycorax@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago

If I plan to play the game long term and potentially play it on my Deck. The only reason I have Game Pass is for CoD because the player base for that game dies in less than a year when a new one is about to come out.

[-] boletus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

I'm willing to bet game pass will come to the steam deck. Also, that's fair. Subscription models for tentative and unsustainable game series makes sense. My issue is more with normal games having to compete with game pass.

[-] OrgunDonor@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Game pass isn't going to come to steam deck. Not as a native app that installs games locally. You can already stream games through the web browser that's all you will get.

The fact they are making changes to windows and partnering with Asus on releasing Xbox hardware in the same space is more than enough evidence, but also, the steam deck is a tiny part of the market(it might be the best but it is still tiny).

Linux as a whole is also nothing for Microsoft to worry about, it is slowly increasing in market share, sure. But it is nothing on the scale of windows, and won't be for years at the current growth rate.

[-] pycorax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The fact they are making changes to windows and partnering with Asus on releasing Xbox hardware in the same space is more than enough evidence, but also, the steam deck is a tiny part of the market(it might be the best but it is still tiny).

I do wonder how this works for offline play which is fairly common for handheld PCs. Does Game Pass work offline?

[-] OrgunDonor@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I think(but it has been a long time since I touched gamepass) there is a timeframe between login checks.

So you might be able to download something, use it for a week, then have to re-authorise again.

But I don't know the time frame, so might be 48 hours or a month.

[-] pycorax@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago

I don't think it will simply because the way game pass is implemented is via the MS Store version of those games. Using Steam would likely require them to switch to the Steam version of games and might not be that straightforward? Who knows.

[-] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 weeks ago

Not having to pay a subscription to access my games is the simple answer lol

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