Game pass must be tanking
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2 minutes per session? That isn’t too bad, I’d expect it to be worse out of the gate.
Thin end of the wedge.
Reject it in totality.
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Remember Horse Armor.
Meh, if you can play games you want to play at the expense of Microsoft then do it. Microsoft isn't going to put Steam out of business anytime soon. The problem with gamepass is it's mostly modern slop I'll never want to play anyway.
No.
That feeds adoption of the platform and the practice, which then takes root and grows into something worse and now is harder to remove. You already have a Steam backlog, just go play that instead.
This guy thinks Lucy tempts you into the pot with convenience before boiling the water, lol
It starts out looking reasonable. Then a few months later, Microsoft changes their policy and now makes it so you need to watch two more minutes of ads every half-hour or so. Then ad sessions double. And more of them become more about spewing political propaganda in your face than selling you a product. Eventually, you get fed up and cough up the money to switch to a higher-tier service without ads, but then Microsoft begins forcing you through them on the paid services as well. And the next thing you know, Microsoft's competitors are forcing commercials on you as well because they all saw how they were doing and realized it worked because suckers everywhere bought it hook, line, and sinker. And now gaming is irreversibly changed forever for the worst. Again.
There are some things where a hard line NEEDS to be drawn.
Wait until session is defined as 30 mins and then in 3 months its 20 minutes, then in 6 it’s 5.99 a month and you can pay 1 dollar a session to skip ads for 30 minutes.
If it gets enough traction, they'll just mandate it in their platform API. Devs will have to provide hooks for it. Then you can look forward to an ad on every loading screen and before every match.
Be glad it's bad. If they did GamePass, Cloud Only for $5/mo people might actually do it and normalize cloudshit.
"It's just horse armor."
The fact so many people are saying this is a "good deal" basically shows that they will bend over for it and then complain about it several years later when there are ads every ten minutes of gameplay and you still have to watch ads even paying 20 quid a month, just they space them out every two hours.
They already have done it with streaming services.
Seriously, it's r/gaming tier. I think gamers are just another breed of braindead consoomer sheep at this point.
You are the reason we are where we are.