Yet they don’t seem willing to put forth any effort for Linux support. I’ve been a gamepass subscriber for years but I’m on the edge of canceling it because it’s useless on my Steam Deck.
Why can’t we just own games anymore? Sure it’d be cool to have your service available on all devices. But once it reaches a critical mass and kills off competitors and other ways of getting games, expect enshittification to ensue, subscriber costs and advertising going way up. Just look at what’s happening with every tv/movie streaming platform now. I’m guessing games you can only access via game pass and can’t purchase separately at all are going to be coming at some point too.
I’m fully with you. I hate how everything’s headed towards perpetually renting and the services getting worse the second other options are squeezed out.
You can buy 100% of the games on gamepass. I fully expected gamepass to get more expensive over time but I’ll be surprised if Microsoft removes the ability to buy games. They seem perfectly happy to take your money however you’re willing to give it. I see their re-listing of games on steam as a sign they aren’t interested in killing game purchasing. Fully admit I could be wrong though.
The quality has already tanked. Halo Infinite has ruined the franchise harder than Halo 5 did before it. And then they took out the multiplayer to make it a shitty F2P. So the game you get with gamepass (or buy) is just a mostly empty sandbox with a shoestring of a story.
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