Fresh wave of abbreviations in Microsoft did not pass by many developers who continue to criticize the corporation for its neglect of purchased assets. The famous game designer inserted his five cents Rafael Kolantonio (Raphael Colantonio) – founder and former head of the studio Arkane.
Criticism Kolantonio aimed at the Game Pass service, which he considers unstable and harmful to the gaming industry. According to the developer, Game Pass does not contribute to the support of studios, existing only due to financial capabilities Microsoft.
I believe that Game Pass is an unstable model that has been causing increasingly damage to the industry subsidized by "endless money" for decades Microsoft. At some point, she will have to face reality. I don’t think Game Pass can coexist with other models. They either destroy everyone else, or will surrender.
Rafael Kolantonio
Statements Kolantonio He soon supported Michael Daus (Michael Douse) – Head of the Publishing Department Larian Studios. According to him, Game Pass positively affects the balance that for projects from small teams that want to minimize risks. The rest of the service simply reduces the potential circulation in many games, leaving Microsoft the main source of finance, which pays for the inclusion of titles in the subscription.
“What will happen when all this money will end?"-the most popular issue in my environment and one of the main economic reasons why people familiar to me did not switch to this business model. The idea of endless money never made sense.
Michael Daus
Kolantonio added that it would be better if Game Pass was directed exclusively to create a retro-game catalog, without harming the new products.
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We cancel all subscriptions
We sell games for $ 100
There are rumors in narrow circles that if the games, on the release, make it optimized and completed, I will buy them more often, and the players will play them, and not act as open beta testers for $ 70, for the standard publication. But you do not understand, the development of dear! And the people are whispering, but this is already from the field of science fiction, if the game itself is interesting – it will also be bought more likely.
Otherwise, the service simply reduces the potential circulation in many games, leaving Microsoft to the main sources of finance, which pays for the inclusion of titles in the subscription.
Clair 33: "Yeah". Make good games, https://nogamstop-casinos.co.uk/review/winstler-casino/ and no subscriptions will harm, you’ll also have a money from the shirts. No one forces us to run to Phil and send their game on a release in Gampass. As if driving there. Afraid of potential sales loss – well, do not sell T -shirts. And you might think that everyone has a subscription, many PCs-Gamers are easier to take a game in Steam, and they will buy in the same PS and Sych anyway, because there is no gameds at all. Plus if the game is really good, they can then be purchased at the library, I did this more than once after I went through something in the Gampass and understood that I would want to play again when the game disappears from the subscription.
Kolantonio added that it would be better if Game Pass was directed exclusively to create a retro-game catalog, thereby not harming the novelties.
I already see how everyone with foam at the mouth runs to buy such a subscription, there will be a wagon and a small cart, yeah, of course, for a large office like MIKs, such a subscription is unlikely to look attractive. Retro connoisseurs like me are many times less than a mass gamer that prefers modern games and new items.
By the way, Kolantonio first sent Weird West to Gampass, then to PS+. Personal experience is divided, it turns out? Let’s see if his new game will be in any subscription.
And this is only for the standard publication.
He was young, he needed money. Ento is different, we ask you to understand and forgive.
Sho you then actively participate in the degradation of the gaming industry and release your Weird West at GamePass and on the day of release?
3 million copies per month for the game from horseradish from the mountain – this is good by definition. There was also a publisher who reasonably invested money and ensured the right PR. They would have heard about the game and bought. So how Pass hurt her?
This, by the way, also, I learned about some games from the gamed, and without it I would not even have tried some games on the pirate, as I had with GRIS, which turned out to be quite a good platformer.
Everything is so. Until the purchase of some games after the pass. Previously, with doubt, "will go to PC/like it?»Pirate, and now they often use pass. All in winning. I would also add such a small thing as PR. In the absence of PR, moreover, the correct, quite large -scale and reflecting the essence (with what the T -shirts of the problem) the dick “went to the Game Pass” will help God forbid a long sundress radio, and without a dick will probably bend to the devil’s mother. How many games have destroyed the wrong or absent PR – it’s scary to remember.
Yes, nope, this is all your conspiracy. It is necessary to continue to throw out the shortfalls, for Full Price, to repair for two years, cut the donates in paid games, and then if it fails to call to remove the game pass. This is all Filka to blame
I already see how everyone with foam at the mouth runs to buy such a subscription, there will be a wagon and a small cart, yeah, of course, for a large office like MIKs, such a subscription is unlikely to look attractive.
Unless for Nintendo, but in their subscription retro games are more likely an additive, and the main point of sales is access to the online, so even here in essence
It seems to me with an expedition in general the developments have a double benefit. Firstly, they obviously paid T-shirts for the publication of the game in the GP on the day of the release. Secondly, advertising about which was written above. Jrpg is still a niche genre, and for example, I wouldn’t even try a game, if not for the GP, not to mention the purchase.
Well, xs. Gampass expeditions did not prevent it from selling well. On the other hand, Prey from the same Kolantonio failed in sales without any gamed (although the game is cool).
I’m not saying that without a gamest some of the game will not be released at all, because Phil allocates money for them under the condition of the release in the gamest.
As if sold Weird West without a gempass, by the way, we don’t know either, so this argument works in both directions
It seems to me that any “concentration” around so many large solutions as Game Pass automatically pushes the leadership of studios less time to devote the quality of projects. Less ask questions (both business issues and issues of the game itself), and more to shift responsibility to the "big brother" (Microsoft).
Like, why bother if we can send it to the “garbage basket” (and Game Pass I only perceive, IMHO)? Eh.
My answer from the tongue was removed, I would write so. The addition of such an additive is added by the baby every month, sometimes good games, and not every trash, you have to wait a long time. There are so many arcade debris on the same Nes, which can be launched for a minute and turned off, because no one will play today, except from scientific interest: what our ancestors played and why they liked it.
Thoughts are the internal release of MIKOV. Lost on sales, purchased on the promotion of the signature service. Here, rather, the dispute about whether Hampass is beneficial to independent studios.
Soon and so they will ask for so much, there will be subscriptions or not.
Yes, it is profitable (for now). But who pays for it? Why does he pay for it? This cash injection must be some purpose? Or do you think that 100 bucks per year from one user will pay off the costs of developing Doom Eternal Indiana and still a heap of all smaller? Doubtful. I think this is such a bouquet-conflict period. At first you are showered with gifts from all sides, and then … well, you understand
T.e. I will return to the time when there were no subscriptions, and nothing will change. People both paid for games and pay. Many breasts have given us a broken code on the release, which needs to be patched for months, and sometimes for years, so now during the time of subscriptions it is done.