ChorizoPicozo
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it depends on the game like Phil said, if I remember correctly. BUT MS uses a lot of telemetryThat’s not how devs are paid for GP deals based on known examples. It’s a flat fee with some variable part based on players. Of course we don’t know every GP deal made.
for single-player games we could speculate is a flat rate, for Publishers of single-player games, they could think that releasing on GP Day One will mean every player through Game Pass is a copy sold. (this is ridiculous of course) but Publishers are here to make money and not give away their games.
MS certainly is looking at the data and making decisions based on that and because MS is very opaque with this data, we only are able to speculate.