This is so interesting! As someone who grew up purchasing physical games, I like the idea of I buy the game, it’s mine. Not everything needs to be a subscription service. Thanks for starting this conversation Gooba ❤
Thanks for watching! That was exactly my thinking. I grew up with physical games and now I play mostly digital. But either way, if I purchase a game at full price, I expect to be able to keep it forever.
At some point these executives will understand that this industry is 100% unique. Its not like CDs in the music industry, and its not like dvds in the movie industry. I think most of us would agree that netflix handles its content horribly. It cancels the good shows, and somehow keeps the crappy ones going forever. Seemingly with no explanation or metrics at all. Spotify seems to be user friendly for us, but artists hate it since they make no money off of it. Either of these scenarios seems like trouble in the gaming industry. If they follow the netflix model, content gets added and removed at will and there will be no place else to play them. This is why game pass works so well, its not the ONLY option, its just one of many options. If they follow the spotify model, smaller studios will be priced out simply because games are expensive to make. Even the small ones. You said it well, the industry will be flooded with CoDs and other extemely profitable, extremely shallow games. Which may work for some people, but certainly not all. Thats whats so great about video games, theres something for every single one of us no matter what your tastes are. I think an industry conpletely ran by subscription services would take this away almost entirely.
I agree completely. An industry run by subscriptions will only produce what the subscription wants. Indie studios will cease to exist, games will all be easy-to-make, shallow re-skins, and I think creativity will suffer. Games will no longer be for everyone.
7:23 the funniest thing about this whole Ubisoft outrage is that's exactly what Ubisoft exec said. You would realize that if you just read the entire article: "The point is not to force users to go down one route or another," he explains. "We offer purchase, we offer subscription, and it's the gamer's preference that is important here." Despite that I agree with you among all big publishers Ubisoft is the one who can't guarantee anything at all. They are not patching their old games, closing multiplayer/coop servers, making DLCs unavailable for old and new players. And just recently they closed and removed The Crew 1 from people's Ubisoft accounts. You can't trust a company like this.
You completely misunderstand meaning of what he said, let me explain. If you can't own a game, that mean can't steal a game, as to steal mean to illegally posess, but you can't posess a game. So feel free to download yourself a copy, nothing wrong with that.
I don't think that's what he was saying. The way I read it was that he thinks the gaming industry should as a whole, or at least mostly, switch to subscriptions rather than buying a game outright. And the problem with that is if all gaming moves to subscriptions, no game can stay available forever so you will eventually lose access to your games when they're removed from the platform. But if you own the game, you will always have access.
So it's like Steam, only instead of having to buy each game, we just pay Steam $20 a month? That would be cheaper for players. The only way it would work is if it's like Netflix or Spotify, where you can get everything.
You’re not wrong that a Netflix type of service for gaming would be cheaper, but I think the issue would be that the price would definitely increase over time like it has with Netflix, and content would be moved around between different services so you’d have to pay for more services in order to play all the games you want. Or they would just be removed entirely, so there’s really no way you get to keep all of your games.
Idea behind steam is that you can pay 100$, publish a game and get 70% of it sales. Steam does not pay devs to be on steam and does not chose what to be on steam (if content is not illegal). That is completely different.
This is so interesting! As someone who grew up purchasing physical games, I like the idea of I buy the game, it’s mine. Not everything needs to be a subscription service. Thanks for starting this conversation Gooba ❤
Thanks for watching! That was exactly my thinking. I grew up with physical games and now I play mostly digital. But either way, if I purchase a game at full price, I expect to be able to keep it forever.
@@GoobaandJetpack and perhaps opinions will differ between the millennial and Gen Z generations 🤷♀️
At some point these executives will understand that this industry is 100% unique. Its not like CDs in the music industry, and its not like dvds in the movie industry. I think most of us would agree that netflix handles its content horribly. It cancels the good shows, and somehow keeps the crappy ones going forever. Seemingly with no explanation or metrics at all. Spotify seems to be user friendly for us, but artists hate it since they make no money off of it. Either of these scenarios seems like trouble in the gaming industry.
If they follow the netflix model, content gets added and removed at will and there will be no place else to play them. This is why game pass works so well, its not the ONLY option, its just one of many options.
If they follow the spotify model, smaller studios will be priced out simply because games are expensive to make. Even the small ones. You said it well, the industry will be flooded with CoDs and other extemely profitable, extremely shallow games. Which may work for some people, but certainly not all. Thats whats so great about video games, theres something for every single one of us no matter what your tastes are. I think an industry conpletely ran by subscription services would take this away almost entirely.
I agree completely. An industry run by subscriptions will only produce what the subscription wants. Indie studios will cease to exist, games will all be easy-to-make, shallow re-skins, and I think creativity will suffer. Games will no longer be for everyone.
7:23 the funniest thing about this whole Ubisoft outrage is that's exactly what Ubisoft exec said. You would realize that if you just read the entire article: "The point is not to force users to go down one route or another," he explains. "We offer purchase, we offer subscription, and it's the gamer's preference that is important here."
Despite that I agree with you among all big publishers Ubisoft is the one who can't guarantee anything at all. They are not patching their old games, closing multiplayer/coop servers, making DLCs unavailable for old and new players. And just recently they closed and removed The Crew 1 from people's Ubisoft accounts. You can't trust a company like this.
You completely misunderstand meaning of what he said, let me explain.
If you can't own a game, that mean can't steal a game, as to steal mean to illegally posess, but you can't posess a game. So feel free to download yourself a copy, nothing wrong with that.
I don't think that's what he was saying. The way I read it was that he thinks the gaming industry should as a whole, or at least mostly, switch to subscriptions rather than buying a game outright. And the problem with that is if all gaming moves to subscriptions, no game can stay available forever so you will eventually lose access to your games when they're removed from the platform. But if you own the game, you will always have access.
So ur saying I don’t own my n64 games or GameCube lol these companies are just trying to rip us off
So it's like Steam, only instead of having to buy each game, we just pay Steam $20 a month? That would be cheaper for players. The only way it would work is if it's like Netflix or Spotify, where you can get everything.
You’re not wrong that a Netflix type of service for gaming would be cheaper, but I think the issue would be that the price would definitely increase over time like it has with Netflix, and content would be moved around between different services so you’d have to pay for more services in order to play all the games you want. Or they would just be removed entirely, so there’s really no way you get to keep all of your games.
Idea behind steam is that you can pay 100$, publish a game and get 70% of it sales. Steam does not pay devs to be on steam and does not chose what to be on steam (if content is not illegal). That is completely different.