• halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The subscription service is bad because a trial period that has no bearing on subscribers is changing? Okay.

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        Found another subscriber that shells out money monthly for items they will never own then complains they can’t afford housing/food.

        Subscriptions help no one but companies profits.

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          1 year ago

          complaining about housing and food? are we reading the same comment or is lemmy broken again lol

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          If you only ever play games or watch movies/shows once regardless, it’s just a cheaper way to get content. The only reason I don’t use Gamepass is because it doesn’t work on Linux. That’s it.

          I have Netflix and Disney+ because it’s way cheaper than buying the movies and shows I watch on it, movies and shows that I’ll only ever watch once.

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        I would say subscriptions are bad because they are proven to make people spend more money then they would have normally. That’s why most big companies do it now. Someone buying a game for 30$ and playing it for 1000 hours over a couple years isn’t very interesting for the big guys.

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          For something like a gamepass it’s debatable.

          You probably pay more if using a gamepass, but you also try a lot more games.

          If you played as many games without a gamepass as with one, you’d pay a lot more.

          But without a gamepass, you usually restrict yourself to fewer games.

          Whether removing such restriction is worth the (not as significant) additional cost is subjective.

          So there’s an actual case for subscription in cases like this.

          (The reason subscriptions make some sense here is because digital items are artificially limited. With physical items or services subscriptions are almost always a money grab. But with artificially limited things, such as digital items, subscriptions can definitely be reasonable.)

        • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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          But then how would you apply that logic to things like GamePass, where you will end up spending way less if you are a prolific gamer? I spent $120 for a year of PS+ Premium and it paid for itself in 2 weeks with the cost of buying the individual games vs just having access to the catalogue. And not just things I downloaded, played for 10 minutes and removed. There was plenty of things I would have out right paid $40-70 for and have put 40-100 hours in that I didn’t have to buy because they were on the subscription service. It would have cost almost a $1000 for the value of time spent playing games I got access to for only $120.