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[StreetsofBeige]

Each console maker has wheeled and dealed with all devs for an Uber Elite sub plan buffet where all games are included on their platform.

All games from first party and third party, indie to AAA. Everything day one.

No $1 promos, sneaky deals, annual promo price. Just a straight up sub plan price per month.

What price you willing to pay to do it? Pick one of the ballpark choices.

 

[megreotsugua]

I'm not signing up and ruin gaming.

 

[Dream-Knife]

Neither company makes enough games in a year that I want to buy. I'll just buy the games I want to play.

 

[CatLady]

I'd still only be willing to pay $15 a month because I don't care about Sony games or most Nintendo games.

 

[elliot5]

I'm good with Game Pass Ultimates price of $15 as my max right now, even though I got it for more like $4 a month after the conversion

 

[PleaseDontBanMe]

Sega Channel >>>>>

 

[Mokus]

I have a big collection of games and I don't have enough time to play them all. No way I will subscribe to something where I will never own the games and not to be able to play them whenever I want.

 

[DaleinCalgary]

Gamepass has shown me its a waste of money as I don't want to play all games, just the ones I am interested it.

So far ive only played Forza Horizons since release.

 

[SenjutsuSage]

I picked the $125 per month minimum option. Who else was the other brave soul?

 

[MasterCornholio]

I definitely wouldn't sign up for that. It would drastically affect the revenue of games and that could end up affecting the budget for them.

 

[kyoji]

I'm not signing up and ruin gaming.

this.

 

[Trogdor1123]

I put $25 a month as I'm sure they would monitize the crap out of it still and then lots of the games I just wouldn't play. The 125 a month things boggles my mind. Who has the time to play that many games?

 

[SenjutsuSage]

This would work just like a cable package, but there would be "packages." Simply no way around packages, but it wouldn't stop there. Each publisher or games maker would need to be incentivized financially for their game to even arrive on this thing in the first place, and then they would have to keep getting something from it so long as their game is available, unless of course they were paid that well just to be on in the first place. It would require the company offering such a thing to pay out an insane amount of money. It's obviously, but not realistic anytime soon.

The Netflix model with original content and the occasional big deal made here and there is the way to go for something like this.

Game Pass is probably the closest to something like this, particularly if rumors of Ubisoft's catalog arriving end up being true.

 

[odhiex]

For now, I could only justify $25/month for one movie/game/music subscription. More than that? I wish for a better salary.

Edit: I am also trying to limit the number of subscription services, it is counter productive. I don't have that much time to enjoy so many movies and games in one month. In the end, I feel that I pays more for less.

 

[kikii]

i woulnt sub, i have again 3months GPU offer for 1€ and havent used it, but ive subbed few times EAplay just for NFS: Heat and A Way Out

 

[small_law]

it's a great question but it also makes me wonder if the video game industry can monetize effectively the same way music and video has. I'm sure they can, I'm just wondering if the bargains are better if you outright buy digital content versus subscription. I'm sure the subscription ends up making more money in the long run.

it's an inevitability really. freaks me out.

 

[Magnific0giganticus]

Nothing

 

[Entroyp]

I’ll pay $200 a year max for a PS subscription as long as they keep the quality intact and release at least 2 AAA games a year.

But I’m not a fan of subscriptions, I buy games to own and never sell.

 

[Zeroing]

I do seem old fashioned but my trust in the gaming industry “benevolence” is nowadays, non existent and my faith in gamers to not conform to shitty practices is also zero.

so that deal is too good to be true makes me sad.

 

[Kagey K]

I would pay the price of one new game per month.

Before Gamepass was a thing I said it would be cool to pay 100/month and have access to all games.

I generally buy 1 new release a month, so it could save me money.

 

[GuinGuin]

This is essentially another "why don't Sony and Nintendo make their own gamepass" thread. Because they don't want to because it's not profitable short term and it's doubtful if it can be profitable long term.

 

[Kagey K]

This is essentially another "why don't Sony and Nintendo make their own gamepass" thread. Because they don't want to because it's not profitable short term and it's doubtful if it can be profitable long term.

Such a stupid way too look at it.

This is what music and movie makers said back in 2000

 

[Alx]

I’d probably jump on and off the different services so that I don’t pay more than 15-20€ per month, like I do with movie streaming platforms.

 

[GuinGuin]

Such a stupid way too look at it.

This is what music and movie makers said back in 2000

Need I point out that games and movies are not the same thing? The games industry is the world's most profitable. Probably because they haven't been forced into the Golden Corral buffet style consumption model. If it does come to pass expect even more shoehorned MTCs and GaaS services as devs struggle to make money and they fight tooth and nail to avoid closure.

 

[prinz_valium]

All combined one sub, or each one sub of their own?

 

[Fredrik]

$15/month or less if I need one for each platform.
If I got all console games and all PC games day 1 with cross platform save sync I would be ready to pay $50/month in total.

 

[Kerotan]

I'd never sign up. I want to own my games not rent them for the rest of my life.

Only exception is when the likes of EA do their €1 for 1 month deal. I didn't care for owning any of their games but there were a few I wanted to do 1 play through of and then was done. Plus I liked the idea of giving them as little as possible.

 

[Bo_Hazem]

Won't pay for the garbage collection, so would still rather pick the games I care about.

 

[MadchesterManc]

I usually don't bother with the subscription stuff unless there's a deal on, 3 months of GPU for £1 or a year of PSNow for £35, so I wouldn't bother with it given the choice as it would need to cost a lot for everyone involved to get a slice of the pie. I'll just stick to buying games

 

[kyussman]

I ignore it and just carry on buying the games that interest me on an individual basis.....just like I'm going to do when I eventually get my hands on an XSX.

 

[Haggard]

I´m not playing enough games anymore to warrant any form of subscription service. And the few blockbusters per year I´m interested in are probably not material that would just instantly show up on those services without making the developer bleeding money.

 

[ZehDon]

I'd still only be willing to pay $15 a month because I don't care about Sony games or most Nintendo games.

Pretty much. I don't own a Switch, and Sony's games lost my interest by the end of the PS4 gen. If Nintendo offered a BC suite on par with Microsoft's they'd get my attention, but alas.

To answer the OP's question, though, if Microsoft can give me their games for $15 a month, I'd expect Sony and Nintendo to match that. So, $45 a month. Max.

 

[Bernd Lauert]

My backlog is already a mile long. I'd still pay up to 50 bucks a month just for the convenience.

 

[MonarchJT]

I don't remember where I read but well there are studies regarding the prices of monthly subscriptions ... the market price where people are willing to arrive goes from 9.99 to 15.99 (not for nothing is the tariff range of the vast majority of services) after they start evaluating the purchase depending on special needs , such as if the subscription is for work or more serious things.

 

[Kagey K]

Need I point out that games and movies are not the same thing? The games industry is the world's most profitable. Probably because they haven't been forced into the Golden Corral buffet style consumption model. If it does come to pass expect even more shoehorned MTCs and GaaS services as devs struggle to make money and they fight tooth and nail to avoid closure.

I'll never understand this line of thinking.

Cream will always rise to the top and chaff will be pushed off to the side.

Doesn't matter if it's "buffet" style (what a dumb phrase) or pay per play.

 

[GuinGuin]

I'll never understand this line of thinking.

Cream will always rise to the top and chaff will be pushed off to the side.

Doesn't matter if it's "buffet" style (what a dumb phrase) or pay per play.

The cream in your analogy is GaaS games which take advantage of the same predatory tactics as casinos to keep people playing despite no longer even being interested in the game and the chaff is authored and unique experiences that don't fit into the predatory model that will permeate the industry if subscriptions become the norm.

 

[Kagey K]

The cream in your analogy is GaaS games which take advantage of the same predatory tactics as casinos to keep people playing despite no longer even being interested in the game and the chaff is authored and unique experiences that don't fit into the predatory model that will permeate the industry if subscriptions become the norm.

Sure Jan.

 

[mortal]

Man my backlog is fucking ridiculous as is.

I typically play 1 or 2 games at a time, so the last thing I need is complete accesses to so many games at once.
If I'm being honest with myself, I likely wouldn't even take advantage of a service like that, so paying for it would be waste.

 

[TheDreadLord]

I just signed up for GamePass because I managed to get 3yrs of it dirty cheap. Otherwise I would never pay for this type of service.

 

[Plantoid]

Voted 15$, but in reality more like 25-30$

 

[Ev1L AuRoN]

Really hope that is not the future, I'll support the traditional company if all the big three start doing this I'll go to Steam, or Gog or any other service that allows me to own my games.

 

[drganon]

None. I hate subscription services.

 

[Jaybe]

I just signed up for GamePass because I managed to get 3yrs of it dirty cheap. Otherwise I would never pay for this type of service.

This. The Gold conversion amounting to $5 a month is the most I’m willing to lock in for. Otherwise I may do a month (hopefully a $1 promo) here and there if a few great games have accumulated and I forecast a lot of spare time Like winter holidays.

 

[Jaybe]

I'm not signing up and ruin gaming.

There is like 5% of me that thinks MS will in two to three years, stop allowing the individual purchase of their games... you can only play it if subbed to GamePass. Far fetched perhaps, but corporately MS loves subscription (365, LinkedIn, Azure).

 

[sublimit]

0$

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

I have Gamepass and play some titles on there so I am not slamming it.

But Sonys big AAA titles DESTROYS Xbox's offerings and if Sony went to a gamepass model I am afraid their titles would become gamepass fluff like Xbox.

I will keep paying for GamePass Ultimate and give Sony $70 a pop for their monster titles.

 

[Zeroing]

Such a stupid way too look at it.

This is what music and movie makers said back in 2000

Here’s the problem, people thinking a game is like music or a movie.

Music and movies are universal, although gaming is more popular than ever, the reach in subscription will never reach those numbers of the other 2 mediums.

when we have a company and their fans comparing it to Netflix this makes me question… if Netflix is barely sustainable now that other subscriptions services exist… what will happen if and when the same happens to gaming? And what will be the impact in quality of games.

 

[Unk Adams]

I wouldn't subscribe. I had Game Pass and honestly didn't enjoy it. I felt pressured to play and run through games otherwise I felt like I didn't get my money worth. So gaming started feeling like a chore that I "had" to do instead of being able to leisurely play a game of my choice from my shelf whenever I felt like it. If I want to go back to something years later it's too bad unless it's a first party title. I would rather buy games individually so I can enjoy them at my pace, not worry about them being delisted, replay them in the future, etc. Plus I also like collecting games so even if I'm done with the game I can still look at the physical copy on a shelf.

 

[GuinGuin]

There is like 5% of me that thinks MS will in two to three years, stop allowing the individual purchase of their games... you can only play it if subbed to GamePass. Far fetched perhaps, but corporately MS loves subscription (365, LinkedIn, Azure).

100% of me agrees with that 5% of you. If they can make Office which hasn't had a meaningful update since the 90's a subscription only service they sure as hell will do the same with games.

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

No thanks