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Game Pass will "either kill everyone else, or give up", says Dishonored and Prey dev Arkane founder

www.rockpapershotgun.com Game Pass will "either kill everyone else, or give up", says Dishonored and Prey dev Arkane founder

Xbox Game Pass is "an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade", says Arkane founder.

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I tried GamePass PC until a whole bunch of my favourite games disappeared. So I had to buy them in the end, which, given steam's usual deals, was about the same as keeping my subscription. It's not a great deal for discerning customers and people will notice.
- I had a free trial for PC and came to a similar conclusion. It's a good way to try some games, but the value proposition isn't great for long term unless you constantly play new games. Also the download speed was atrocious.
  
  value proposition isn't great for long term unless you constantly play new games.
  
  This. I never understood why people bothered with this mess in the first place, you need to be playing a new game like every two-three months to make this worth it/cheaper than just buying a $60 game. Which I think would be extremely hard for some games like RPGs that might take 100hrs to beat, especially if you have a life/obligations. I was busy with college, so Metaphor Re:fantazio took me like 5 months to beat, so a gamepass would be more expensive that buying the damn thing.
Dishonored and Prey dev Arkane founder

The fuck is that sentence structure? This reeks of AI.
- His full name is Arkane Cornelius Founder IV, but it was a bit long for the title.
- 'Dishonored and Prey'[two games] 'dev' [short for developer, the people that made the games] 'Arkane' [the name of the studio, i.e. the 'developer'] 'founder' [the person that founded said studio]. So, after unwrapping, it would be something like 'The founder of Arkane, the studio that developed Dishonored and Prey, says...'.
  
  It is weird, and I certainly hate it, but it's proper 'journalist grammar'.
  
  No need to talk to me like I am retarded. You are most likely right, though. I just don't think humans usually write like this. I could be totally wrong, I am just throwing the possibility of it being AI out there.
- Ai writes better than that
  
  I think the AI couldn't differentiate between name and job title. This isn't a mistake a professional writer would make. Especially when proof reading. I caught it reading it once.
"The service will succeed or fail". Not much of a hot take, even though I agree with his sentiment.
- The point is the destructive potential of it succeeding.
Its a bad deal, they want to force by making games exclusive except they just fired all of the game makers so uh...
Come back Arkane Austin, I need a sequel to Prey 😢

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