• raccoona_nongrata@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Yup, a future of games as a service means gaming becomes more expensive. It only starts out cheap to get people using it, they would never do it if the long term plan wasn’t to raise the prices to make it more profitable than selling digital copies.

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        The interface gets a little better and that’s it basically? (Alternatively: They try to spin a social medium around it and fail somewhat and succeed somewhat?)

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          Okay, Youtube was maybe a bad example. They aren’t that far with the enshittification yet, and just started increasing the amounts of ads…

          Things I do expect:

          • Price increase
          • Tiered pricing (okay, that’s already a thing for GamePass with the “PC” and “Ultimate” plan)
          • Lower price tiers including advertisements (could for instance be placed in games streamed from the cloud)
          • Other things that aren’t beneficial for consumers.