Game Pass was supposed to be the all-you-can-play subscription service that put Xbox on top after a disastrous generation. Instead, it's a failure that's threatening to ruin the company.
“Netflix for games” has proven to be far from the ideal solution.
Until Gabe has a heart attack, venture capitalists takes over and stab all the PC gamers in the back.
I guess there will be warning signs and it’s still people to un-DRM some Steam games so for now we’re ok.
People seem to forget Valve was ahead of the curve of being anti consumer. They were the first to really heavily push online DRM for single player games (Half Life 2) and made online marketplace games mainstream (TF2 store items like hats and CSGO skins). I wish they would make a new ground breaking single player game that wasn’t relegated to VR but I digress.
Until Gabe has a heart attack, venture capitalists takes over and stab all the PC gamers in the back. I guess there will be warning signs and it’s still people to un-DRM some Steam games so for now we’re ok.
People seem to forget Valve was ahead of the curve of being anti consumer. They were the first to really heavily push online DRM for single player games (Half Life 2) and made online marketplace games mainstream (TF2 store items like hats and CSGO skins). I wish they would make a new ground breaking single player game that wasn’t relegated to VR but I digress.
People will have to buy exabytes of disk in a rush to download their Steam libraries, storage prices will soar (again).