• verysoft@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    It’s all for game pass. They want to lock people into their favourite games with a subscription, that’s where the money is for Xbox at the moment, all these buyouts are for securing their service as ‘the one to want’ before others clamber into the space. So I suspect things at ABK will continue as they have been doing for the most part, but with the games on game pass and maybe some more Xbox ports.

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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.