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Originally Posted by dino7c
But why outdo yourself? pump out more quantity so the service can say
"we have X amount of games" "X amount of new games this month"
Almost nobody will be buying xbox games when nearly everyone has game pass...what is the incentive to make a really good game?
Kinda reminds me of music...nobody buys albums anymore and the overall quality seems to have suffered. People just want to pump out a quick single and make money.
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I don't know, I find that there are still plenty of artists churning out quality albums nowadays. Ditto for streaming services like Netflix, who have featured a number of pretty good quality original series in addition to all of the other stuff. This all cuts both ways - I've read remarks from a few developers of higher-quality but slightly lesser-known games who proclaimed that Gamepass provided them exposure that they would have otherwise never had, were they simply hoping for people to buy their game in the store.
At the end of the day, we simply aren't in the "go to the record store and buy an album" era any longer, and soon won't be in the "pay 40-90 bucks for every new game you want to play" era either, assuming services like Gamepass continue to proliferate. It's valid to wonder how such a service will affect the motivations of developers and publishers in the future, but at this point that is surely just speculative.