Only if you can keep people subscribed, the lure of a true perpetual purchase, vs a subscription service is that subscription is a lower fee. But they have to lock you in somehow.
Wait untill you hear about loans and regular interest payments lol.
A more refined method of generating consistent, regular cashflow, rofl.
(Ahem, at least in theory, but then when that stops working, surprise! you get a bailout!)
… But yeah, the natural evolution we should expect is that MSFT (or Hulu or any other sub based service) will soon or at least eventually partner with something like klarna to offer 3-6 month payment loan options … for every recurring monthly subscription payment.
Think about it.
What that means is that… well, if you cancel on month 5, you’re still making payments through month 8, or month 11.
So … should you really go 3 - 6 months paying for not having something?
Or just keep your subscription going?
Loans are literally the OG of ‘dark pattern’, MTX style bullshit, its a perfect match made in hell.
Especially when you aren’t consistently providing a quality product. If every game is a hit, people will buy them all, but if your games are hit or miss, you keep making revenue regardless.
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Subscription > point of sale. It’s way more profitable to be a landlord than a shop keeper. That’s why everything is subscription now.
But they lost money
They didn’t mention GamePass income.
There are people out there who basically only play Call of Duty. They’d be paying $360 a year for it.
Don’t forget how much we pay for DLC. Those Blackcell Battle Passes and Beavis & Butthead skins aren’t included with GamePass.
I don’t play it so I wasn’t even thinking of that. Good point!
No they didn’t.
That’s if you’re naive/childish/innocent enough to assume that everyone playing this on game pass would’ve bought it if game pass wasn’t an option.
Same backwards logic to convince useful idiots that each pirated copy is a lost sale.
Not everyone is an innocent child with disneyvision who believes corporations and their employees are there friends.
Only if you can keep people subscribed, the lure of a true perpetual purchase, vs a subscription service is that subscription is a lower fee. But they have to lock you in somehow.
Wait untill you hear about loans and regular interest payments lol.
A more refined method of generating consistent, regular cashflow, rofl.
(Ahem, at least in theory, but then when that stops working, surprise! you get a bailout!)
… But yeah, the natural evolution we should expect is that MSFT (or Hulu or any other sub based service) will soon or at least eventually partner with something like klarna to offer 3-6 month payment loan options … for every recurring monthly subscription payment.
Think about it.
What that means is that… well, if you cancel on month 5, you’re still making payments through month 8, or month 11.
So … should you really go 3 - 6 months paying for not having something?
Or just keep your subscription going?
Loans are literally the OG of ‘dark pattern’, MTX style bullshit, its a perfect match made in hell.
Hypercapitalism, away!!!
I have wondered when they will push to increase minimum subscription duration. Presumably if too many people frequently sub for a single month.
Especially when you aren’t consistently providing a quality product. If every game is a hit, people will buy them all, but if your games are hit or miss, you keep making revenue regardless.