A new report says that Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass subscription service added $8,763 worth of games in the US during 2023, compared to paying $203.88 for 12 months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate.
With Game Pass you have access to the entire catalog to play. If you want to purchase a game, the purchase button is right next to the Play/Install button and you also have a discount on that purchase.
There is nothing preventing you from purchasing a game you want to own instead of relying on it not being removed from the catalog.
And you can sell or trade that game with whoever you want? You can have it hosted by someone other than Microsoft? They let you run it on whatever hardware you want and they try and stop you or put up artificial barriers to do that? Right? You own that game right?
Ah, you’re one of those people. Got it. No point in continuing this conversation.
You go ahead and buy your physical copy, if one is even released, and others will buy digital as they like. Philosophical arguments of ownership on social media don’t make a difference.
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If you can’t own it it’s not stealing.
Btw I hate that physical ownership is seen as an exclusive place for consumer rights. Companies saw a gap in collective knowledge and law and drove the wedge as far as they could.
The problem is with DRM owning a physical copy of a recent game doesn’t mean squat. It also wasn’t a gap for older generations since CDs were a terrible medium to store and verify games since they scratch easy.
The fight will always be you want to own the thing you buy, and companies will want to stop people who didn’t buy it from using it. This fight has been going on since the original DOOM was freely passed around.
With Game Pass you have access to the entire catalog to play. If you want to purchase a game, the purchase button is right next to the Play/Install button and you also have a discount on that purchase.
There is nothing preventing you from purchasing a game you want to own instead of relying on it not being removed from the catalog.
And you can sell or trade that game with whoever you want? You can have it hosted by someone other than Microsoft? They let you run it on whatever hardware you want and they try and stop you or put up artificial barriers to do that? Right? You own that game right?
Ah, you’re one of those people. Got it. No point in continuing this conversation.
You go ahead and buy your physical copy, if one is even released, and others will buy digital as they like. Philosophical arguments of ownership on social media don’t make a difference.
For the people following the chat If you can’t own it it’s not stealing.
Btw I hate that physical ownership is seen as an exclusive place for consumer rights. Companies saw a gap in collective knowledge and law and drove the wedge as far as they could.
The problem is with DRM owning a physical copy of a recent game doesn’t mean squat. It also wasn’t a gap for older generations since CDs were a terrible medium to store and verify games since they scratch easy.
The fight will always be you want to own the thing you buy, and companies will want to stop people who didn’t buy it from using it. This fight has been going on since the original DOOM was freely passed around.