It’s double time after the price hike. I watched a video yesterday, an old one, where he explained the pressure for games to deliver will be even more crucial. The one genre he sees that could be seeing most difficult is fighting games, which now I think about it, he’s not wrong. $80 fighting games is too much in compare to say RPG or even shooters. You got to load it up from the get go.
It is much better but I wish there was also an option to remove the “Browse the store” and ads too. I literally never use them or even look at them so it just ruins the wallpaper.
Video games is in such a strange place right now. Try to follow industry headlines and it’s nothing but bad news and scandals nonstop. And yet the actual games coming out have hardly ever been better, banger after banger coming out at a pace I can hardly keep up with.
Oh that’s right. Game Pass does multiplayer as well. Funny, because it was once argued that Game Pass is only done for multiplayer games, notably co-op.
This is why MS has a good formula with Gamepass. You sell your games for those that want to buy outright but have that subscription cushion because let’s be honest, not every game will be a success no matter the dev.