Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

Can't teach the blind to shoot hoops.

IDK about that.

I knew a blind bartender who could shoot pool. I mean stone blind. Not even dark and light.

I was saying, they can learn.

But you can't teach them.

Guys gonna teach the blind dude how to use echo location for pool, he's gonna turn someone into Matt Murdock without the mutation.

Covid was the most black pilling thing I've ever experienced, people are just animals with a frosting of pretend civilization ontop. All that frosting comes off real quick, if people get scared enough.

People shoving experimental vaccines in their ***, being proud of doing it, screaming at each other in supermarkets, wearing masks that literally did nothing, walking around with plastic bags on their head and hangs.

Clown world.

Kek.

Seen it first hand. ***was wild. Like a nature documentary irl.

Careful or Vyre-kun will show up with a newspaper though.

You forgot all the people screaming "trust the science" when in reality I'm trusting the hundreds of years of science that counterdicted the "science" the media was spewing.

@Vyre-kun

I wont tell names, but there is someone here that deserve severe butt spanking.

Cancel your Gamepass sub

Huge fumble from Microsoft, $360 a year for gamepass is insane. Not sure what they are thinking but it's not going to work.

I've seen some noise about Gamepass recently, but never read into it. Wasn't that service like $10/month previously?

That was a long time ago. I've never had it because I haven't owned an xbox since the 360, but they have raised prices a few times since then. It was 19.99 now they are raising it to 30. People are fleeing to cancel.

Xbox is donkey ***

Afania in utter shambles.

Shambles? What do you mean lol.

It's really one simple question.

Is it cheaper to buy games separately or pay for sub?

Yes? buy games separately.

No? Use subscription services.

As long as subscription service is cheaper than buying games than it has its use. If subscription services become so expensive than it become cheaper to buy games then we'll just switch to buying games instead.

If you are kind of people who can finish 3 $60 games in a month(spend $180), they can charge their sub for $80 per month and it's still going to be a "net gain" for this kind of buyers in this case. But they can't endlessly increase subscription prices because at one point buying games will be more worth it

Why do you sounds like sub price increase is some kind of crisis for me or something lol.

From what I've read they made the service into multi-tier and pricy AAA games are only available on day one on the highest tier or something.

It's honestly a good thing for AAA industry tbh. Way too many people play AAA on game pass day one instead of buying AAA games on day one. Because it's WAY cheaper this way. That also means those AAA games are making way less during launch period than they should be.

I think price tier reflecting game price is more fair for those $70-$80 games that's also available on game pass day one. If people stop subbing as a result, then the money goes to buying those games instead, so nothing is lost.

Edit: Also some people said the biggest consumer for first day AAA games are usually streamers, who makes money by streaming the trendy game and they generally consume/rotate games faster than average gamers. So the highest price tier target audience is probably them, not average gamer.

Alfania in shambles.

Company puts up prices cause they can.

Consumer: A good thing for the industry!

Companies love consumers like this. Easily parted with money.

Thank you, I love game companies for making my life happy with their games too.

I think very high budget games like GTA 6 should cost $100 so human isn't being treated as disposable in capitalism system. Efforts should be rewarded.

Also games aren't life necessity. Companies can't just put up prices because games are never needed in the society.

If you actually pay a lot of money for a game and feel your purchase is worth it, that's probably because you feel emotionally worth it to pay, not because the "company can do it".

The conversation was for yearly subscription for online services for consoles.

If you think that money goes directly to game devs, I have several bridges you might be interested in.

Wait, are you saying game dev doesn't get money at all by putting their games on MS's platform? If that's the case why would anyone put their games on MS's platform then?????

What do you mean exactly? What point are you trying to make here?

I am not sure exactly what's the critique about the subscription services?

1. Subscription services potentially help consumers save money if they rotate games a lot and finishes games fast.

2. If they can't save from sub then they can still buy games on steam, so nothing is lost with sub fee increase. Not on consumers side at least.

So what's the problem here exactly? I just don't understand.

My point is saying "money spent on game pass goes to devs" is complete BS.

How much money do you think they're getting from your $11.99 gamepass subscription? Not the company as a whole, I mean each individual dev.

I've always wondered that, if game devs got treated like artists on Spotify like "hey, congrats on that indie banger! You had 500,000 downloads this month! Here's your cheque for $1.73."

I am pretty sure a portion of them did, otherwise no one would agree to put their games on game pass.

But yeah, if you absolutely want to support the dev, pre-order games on day one with deluxe edition is the best way.

Also I think how much a dev benefits from putting their game on game pass is case by case.

You know that musicians on Spotify is in a drastically different positions from game dev right? Why are you comparing the two?

Can you publish your music on a platform and sell them for $30 with 20 different $3 dlc?

Game dev has this choice to make money from multiple sources, they are not being locked on MS's platform if MS pays too little. This is not the case for musicians.

Ok let's say if they get very little, aren't we discussing this from the pov of consumers? Why are people complaining about sub price increase if they have alternatives places to buy games???? And why are people saying game dev can't make money from game pass if they can choose to sell games elsewhere?

I just don't understand the negativity here.

Turn that around - can game devs make money by solely publishing their game via game pass?

I am aware of no single game that is available exclusively on game pass. There for, they definitely make money on it, but not enough for it to be their sole revenue.

It's like saying "why put something up for rent when you can just sell it". Well because some people won't ever buy it but will rent it.

Renting and selling helps you reach more people. Especially with digital products that can be copied infinitely.

They are different audiences that's why they do it.

The negativity is simply around subscription rental services for games, not what game devs make. You can support game devs by buying their games you don't have to buy subscription services from effing microsoft for it.

MS makes a lot more money off game pass than game devs do. If you think otherwise.. delulu.