Who still plays on an Xbox One? So many games are skipping it or have been running like shit on it for years.
Game Pass Reportedly Has Over 15M Players On PC | 10M on XBOX Consoles
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So much marketing investment to push a service like this and still miss growth targets.You need to scroll down a bit to see his Job positions and not only his About.
The service is bad. Riddled with cheap toss in games and low quality indies. What is the point of “the best deal in gaming” when you can’t play god of war or the latest zelda?
They put way too much effort on quantity and day one releases when quality matters a lot more. Whatever the opposite of moneyball is, that's Gamepass, dumb and inefficient spending.
The actual top tier AAA games like RDR2, Elden Ring or God of War provide a lot more value to people than any service.
PS+ Extra gets the balance right and if anything it is still too aggressive with how quickly Sony games are put there.
Not when your entire strategy relies on it, coupled with cheap exploits that allow users to get it for a few bucks.
And some not sadly banned
But yes I play on PC, but since my six months of promos ended last year I quit GamePass. Much better to spend on games you actually want, and if you have a backlog you can easily get games cheaply a few months after release on CDKeys etc.
Mind you GamePass is 5+ years old, these numbers are terrible.
This is why Gamepass makes no sense on PC outiside of 1$ tricks, it's so easy to build a solid library on Steam of games of your choosing.
People that sign up to to play Starfield will do so for one or two months and then bail.
The question is do mods works on Windows Store? I believe it does but I won't check... it is recentely too... like since 2022 or 2021.
Do games work on Gamepass Pc app yet? That app was weird and always fucked my storage and install. EA games even require installing an even worse app from EA.
If they include Gamepass on Steam I'll consider it every once in a while when something comes out.
Yeah on the gamepass app because most Bethesda pc players normally plays with mods
There is probably a significant proportion of the Xbox userbase who also loaded it up on PC at least once, or set up doenloads on it while at work from their phones (this is possible, right?.) For a resume like this, trying to sell numbers with no real accountability, that probably means that they were marked as PC ecosystem users for life.
Xbox Game Pass Reportedly Has Over 15 Million Players On PC
Microsoft's premium game subscription service, Xbox Game Pass, reportedly has over 15 million players on PC.twistedvoxel.com
If these Consoles numbers are correct, it is worse than I expected
Ah ok I see it now.
LMFAO Xbox is such shit
Well, it's true what they say, what goes around comes around. Xbox started entirely from the idea of putting a PC in the living room, and DirectX gave birth to that idea and MS mostly abandoned gaming on PC after that... and now it's only right that MS abandons the failing Xbox, realizes its mistakes, and crawls back to PC where it can actually find some success.
Yep...
...in Valve's ecosystem
It's bizarre that MS didn't create Steam before Valve did. I mean, they had everything at disposal to do it and they didn't do it. Why?Yep...
...in Valve's ecosystem
It's more than likely even lower but when Microsoft throws numbers out they add the sink, tub and even grandma
I won't say before because MS first atemp happened a year after Steam (2003)...
Windows Marketplace (2004) failed miserabely.
You can't say they didn't try.
Way before that they had Zone.com that was rebranded to MSN Games but it was just to small games.
MS wasting time with Xbox is the best thing to ever happen to PC gaming and the worst thing to ever happen to consoles.
MS just can't read the gaming market at all, same reason why they suck at producing games, just no culture beyond making low quality and boring enterprise software.
Because as we've come to see, Microsoft aren't visionaries when it comes to gaming. At least, they haven't been for a very long time. I think their narrow focus on dethroning Sony with the 360 caused them to pretty much forget about the PC gaming market altogether. After all, they were already getting PC devs to start making console games more with Xbox, and felt that would accelerate with 360 (it did).
I genuinely think Microsoft probably thought gaming on PC from a mass-market commercial sense was probably dead or dying by the mid '00s and didn't care much because they were going full steam ahead on console with the 360. And to be fair, for a while there it probably did seem like gaming on PC was nothing but a couple MMOs, Newgrounds, other Flash games and indie-style games with no marketplace to sell (so they were free).
Valve actually still believed in mass commercial gaming on PC and unifying PC game developers in some way, and they had a vision with Steam, so they started it out, it grew, and eventually it helped bring back mass commercial gaming to PC. Once more console-centric devs started considering doing PC ports, Steam was right there, right place and time, to become their choice.
Money means nothing if you don't have a vision for it. Microsoft saw no future in PC gaming in the mid '00s, that's why they never invested in a Steam of their own. Their mistake.
Man, I forgot about both of those
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