Path: ...!Xl.tags.giganews.com!local-3.nntp.ord.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 17:44:20 +0000 From: Spalls Hurgenson Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Subject: Re: It looks like gambling, feels like gambling, pays out (almost) like gambling... but it's not gambling Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 13:44:20 -0400 Message-ID: References: X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 32 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-xLoFpAVHeZ2xMskfo9vhLqXnEHOL2P3ZTWbpV2yO/cMkAC9PHQNzRZq6mHAZu/MoCGec5P8l7DDIxhO!4cJA5R5Zc3+/ARVB8RRGct9D95mgRdZvdaMpcZFayIDgXd4u1HDO0Qvluqr0lWFZcs8xbKHR X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 Bytes: 2493 On Tue, 23 Jul 2024 09:58:23 +0100, JAB wrote: >On 23/07/2024 01:50, Spalls Hurgenson wrote: > >Like you I'd prefer that we returned to the old model of how games make >money and I don't even have a problem with subscription models if they >act reasonable in changes to what you get and prices *coughs* Microsoft >Gamepass *coughs*. Apparently the US goverment is having a bit of an issue with Gamepass. Who could possibly have guessed that allowing two giant corporations to merge /wouldn't/ result in lower prices and better products, but just the opposite? I wouldn't object to subscription models if it wasn't so obviously what publishers wants the ENTIRE industry to become. If it were just, "hey, you can sometimes rent a game, and other times buy it", I'd be fine. I can actually see the appeal in a subscription as a way to 'demo' games I'm interested in, or play entire games I've some interest in but not enough to pay full price. It's not a bad idea on the whole. But I've no trust in the publishers not to abuse the idea solely for their own benefit. They've been frog-boiling gamers towards the idea that the former is the One True Way of modern gaming, and it is so obvious that once they amass a plurality of gamers they'll stop selling games entirely.