Gamers benefited tremendously. GamePass is a game changer and having access to day 1 first (and often 3rd) party releases is amazing. Devs are happy too. Many publicly admitted that without GP some of their games would not launch at all.

While you are right that MS has released mostly duds this generation, it’s not fair to paint them as completely without any benefits to gamers or industry.

When you say LOL as Alliance character in World of Warcraft, it’s seen as KEK for Horde characters. W is added the same way as saying that something is KEWL instead of COOL.

So this person basically said LOL in a manner that’s understandable mostly for 30+ year olds ;)

If we all had this point of view, that’d be the end of us.

That’s a rather pessimistic view. Yes, it will be hard as fuck. Yes, unfortunately it will be the end of some us. But I think we as a race will prevail and I don’t think simply giving up right now is an option.

Welcome to Alpineham. I'd watch that.

Do you know how long this $1 promo will last? I’m unlucky this month and can’t afford it until next month.

According to their main page, it's already added.

Same benefits we got with RIF/Apollo over Reddit. I'm not gonna mention any specific ones but the idea is that the devs of Lemmy can focus on working out site bugs etc. while app devs can focus on adding features not currently available on the web.

Last one for me. I know most folks here said middle one but to me it's too big scale-wise. Also - take away all other cars, put it just by itself and someone may not know it's a car. Far right one is on the other hand smaller and it's clearly a car.

That’s a lot of negative “what ifs”. We can only judge by current situation not by what something may or may not become in the future. This is not Minority Report video games edition.

Shift towards DLC and worst, season passes and micro transactions, already happened without GP. We live in that world. GP here is not to blame.

No matter how you slice it - right now GP is tremendous value for gamers. It finally forced competitors to introduce some form of their own subscription service. Sony/Nintendo fans like them, and without GP these services would not exist.

I’m lucky to have 3 main consoles and PC. In order of money spend per game its highest PS5 > Switch > PC > XSX lowest. Exact reverse order is # of games played on given platform. I spend less for GP than for Netflix and get way more entertainment out of it. The other consoles are just for very expensive exclusives.

GP model allows me to find and try games that I normally wouldn’t buy. Forza Horizon 5, Immortality or Pentiment are just 3 examples.