BrettEskin t1_iu29gsz wrote on October 28, 2022 at 12:42 AM

Reply to comment by GhostalMedia in Google Stadia is dead and Nvidia GeForce Now gets a price cut – what’s going on? by Hyperion1144

All fun and games until they roll it into 365 in two years.

Oh god that's exactly what they're gonna do isn't jt

DungeonsAndDradis t1_iu42vm3 wrote on October 28, 2022 at 12:20 PM

My gut instinct (I hope I'm wrong), is that Microsoft will stop allowing game sales. You'll have to subscribe to Game Pass to play the games. I think this will happen with a major AAA title in the next 2-3 years. Once the outrage is done, they'll make that the standard for all new games to the platform.

Every industry is moving towards subscription-only options.

BrettEskin t1_iu437iv wrote on October 28, 2022 at 12:23 PM

I don't think they'll stop allowing them period, they still offer stand alone office apps after all, but they'll make it to the point where you'll be so impossibly locked in to 365 already you'll have no reason to buy a game out right

lokitoth t1_iu4fxex wrote on October 28, 2022 at 2:04 PM

> Microsoft will stop allowing game sales

Not so long as Steam exists. Part of the point of GamePass is that when games roll off from it, anyone who is not done but wants to is incentivized to buy it (with a little discount over the top).