This sounds so slippery slope hypothetical, but this is exactly what Adobe did with Photoshop, Lightroom, and more, which shows that this is actually happening right now.
I don’t think Microsoft will do so, at least in the foreseeable future. One of their selling points to devs is that they’ll see their sales go up in addition to the GP revenue. There would be a lot of publishers who would pull out if they can’t sell their game and have it on GP.
They might do it for their own games, but even that could be a stretch. Starfield saw huge sales on both Xbox and PC in addition to those who are using GamePass.
Movies used to be mostly rented out, yet this hasn’t led to the “rent only” situation, quite the opposite.
WAT? Is there some sort of massive increase in people buying blu-rays or something that I’m unaware of?
This has LITERALLY become our reality with movies. It’s not something far off in the future, it IS TODAY. Nobody buys movies or songs anymore, they have to pay for a SERVICE to listen to music, tv shows, and movies…
Sure. Until you can’t own games anymore because of everyone enabling these companies.
This sounds so slippery slope hypothetical, but this is exactly what Adobe did with Photoshop, Lightroom, and more, which shows that this is actually happening right now.
I don’t think Microsoft will do so, at least in the foreseeable future. One of their selling points to devs is that they’ll see their sales go up in addition to the GP revenue. There would be a lot of publishers who would pull out if they can’t sell their game and have it on GP.
They might do it for their own games, but even that could be a stretch. Starfield saw huge sales on both Xbox and PC in addition to those who are using GamePass.
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It isn’t doomsaying.
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WAT? Is there some sort of massive increase in people buying blu-rays or something that I’m unaware of?
This has LITERALLY become our reality with movies. It’s not something far off in the future, it IS TODAY. Nobody buys movies or songs anymore, they have to pay for a SERVICE to listen to music, tv shows, and movies…
What do you mean they have to? DVDs and CDs are still being sold. It turns out that people simply prefer the convenience of online media services.
No, it isn’t, you have no proof of the “no rent only” future you’re so sure is waiting for us.
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2 of us have literally provided the proof. Yet you’re still here screaming “Slippery slope fallacy!”…
Yet we’ve shown you existing markets which are already there. We’ve already provided the proof.
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