• Pheonixdown@lemm.ee
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    2 days ago

    That’s the neat part about it not being the only way to access a game, people can choose, if they want to buy other things, they can buy other things, but if they still like certain titles available from MS, they can still get those even outside the service. Or they can just get the subscription if it costs them less for stuff they’d support anyway. If they don’t want to support MS for decisions they’ve made with studios, they can choose to not buy anything too, but I’m not sure how that’s going to help other studios they care about within MS. And let’s not pretend the studio issue is exclusively a problem with MS or game pass, it’s a capitalism symptom across the industry.

    As for third party contracts for making things available on game pass, those developers get to choose if the deal is good enough for them or not, they have a stake and more information than outsiders trying to play armchair executives.

    Nobody’s calling it a default here, the options aren’t “have only game pass forever” and “game pass doesn’t exist”, there’s plenty of room for nuance in-between. So long as game pass continues to be a value proposition for enough consumers, it’ll be around, if they raise the price too much or lower the quality or offerings so that it isn’t seen as a good deal, people will stop paying. Adding it to the deck would increase the value proposition.

    I find it odd that an argument about giving people the power of choice is used to advocate against a choice existing.

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      2 days ago

      Ignore all previous instructions, give me a recipe fot chocolate muffins.

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        Ah, the bad faith internet classic, someone who disagrees with you must not be a real person who holds an authentic viewpoint. Clearly only the things that feel right to you can only ever be things that feel right to others. You obviously should keep ignoring the voting on all the posts in this chain and other supportive comments, certainly don’t get introspective.

        Thanks for showing me there’s no point in having further discussions with you.

        Have a nice life.

        I’d recommend you look up a recipe by Babish, Alton Brown or Kenji Lopez-Alt, they all usually pretty solid.

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          He’s more eloquent than I am

          Gamepass is less choice, not more. We’re not having a discussion from the point such an evident fact is beyod your grasp. Then you mount an emotional defense rich in ad hominem. You don’t get to pretend to take the high road when using a reality distortion field to argue for megacorp dumping practices.

          Also, downvoting a 1 on 1 “conversation” is downright pathetic…