• Skies5394
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    Xbox’s subscription service didn’t stop Bethesda’s RPG from dominating sales charts last month

    The myth being that game pass nukes sales.

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      Does that not suggest that Xbox game pass is not very successful?

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        The suggestion they’d like you to take is that Game Pass spreads enough word of mouth to help or otherwise not harm sales.

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            1 year ago

            Eh, not really. Game Pass does have a lot of value in it; it’s not the way I want to engage with games, but it makes sense for both Microsoft and customers. It’s just not the proof that this headline posits it to be when you use a game guaranteed to sell millions of copies.

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    I was seriously considering buying the game on release but after 8 hours of not having fun paying it I’m glad I had GamePass to try it on first.

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    I wonder how long it will be until Skyrim overtakes Starfield for player count. On Steam right now it seems to be about 26k vs 46k.

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        Bethesda always has a long tail on their games. They’re committed to at least one DLC

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            While I agree with you, we have to keep in mind even though Bethesda games are pretty fucking shallow. Some people just love them the way they are. Console players are the perfect example of this. I know consoles “recently” added modding but its far more limited than their pc counterparts. Those games had legs even without the modding scene. Its just on the PC market mods are probably the main reason why people play it on that platform.

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    Honestly, all this might show is that there’s enough hype behind a big marquis Bethesda release that it can power through Game Pass availability. Most games would love to sell in a lifetime what Skyrim sold in a single month 10 years after its initial release.

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    They are going to use this as an excuse to buy more companies.

    Look Starfield still sold outside of gamepass, we aren’t a monopoly trying to own everything.

    The moment they have bought enough companies they will rip away any other option besides a subscription.