Comment on Phil Spencer Reiterates That Xbox Is Excited About Activision-Blizzard’s Back Catalog

• Goronmon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Netflix was cheap because there no one valued streaming rights initially, and thus there was little competition for those rights. Once companies realized how valuable the service was, prices shot up.

  One of those strange situations where increased competition increased prices.

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  • echo64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes, that makes the gamepass situation even more egregious. Everyone knows the cost of making games, but only Microsoft can afford to literally lose money for a decade to secure dominance.

    No one can compete because everyone else has to run a real business

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• pycorax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s fine. Nothing is stopping you from dropping it once it becomes a bad deal. I cancelled Netflix once the price became ridiculous. For games, it’s even easier, there’s many alternatives both legal and illegal.

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  • echo64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes, we can all do that once the industry has been irrevocably changed forever, and now nothing gets made outside of subscription services

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    • pycorax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      What makes you think that will actually happen? Games still make a lot purely from game sales. Not to mention a lot of absurd cash grabs like the latest CoD would fail to work when there’s only subscription models. Besides, despite how cheap these services have been, game sales have not dropped either.

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      • echo64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        You 15 years ago: What makes you think movies will only be available on subscription services? they make a lot of money selling things physically today, Netflix is just a side revenue, it won’t change anything.

        despite how cheap these services have been, game sales have not dropped either.

        aside from on xbox.

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