This has been a successful business model for mmos for decades. This is not new.
Not really, the MMO model is ppm not ppp.
The gamepass subscription already fits the MMO model.
It’s quite similar. Pay for a game and then pay for game “time.”. Mmos are a pre pay, this is likely billed after playing. But really just paying for time after buying the game.
Well that would explain why I’ve never seen an MMO streamer before. At least not since Leeroy.
And we’ve come full circle back to arcades. Just with extra(fewer?) steps now.
They didn’t used to make us buy the arcade machine first.
Isn’t this just free on both pc and playstation?
It’s funny. Because pretty soon individual “Game Designers” will for the first time be able to create highly complex games using generative AI in very little time. Any game. Even games with a scole like GTA 6 could be generated. And as long as the game describes and edits enough, they will also be an individual creation. Triple AAA video games with a side of slop will become incredibly cheap to make. Much will be total garbage, but we’ll see some really cool new ideas that would never have been made before.
This enshittification we’re seeing now will only drive this process faster. Even games piracy is going to die lol.
You see a game but don’t like some aspect of it? Download someone else’s game design document for it and tweak it a bit and generate your own version of that game.
The consumer will gobble this up like hot bread and then ask “but why things bad? Must be immigrants”
Shitty behaviour by a shitty species
You underestimate how much people don’t like metered charges.
Man, I feel like peak gaming was the xbox 360.
I think steam deck 2 as and when it comes out will be a golden age. I think it stands a chance to completely consolidate the market.
Depends on the price, most people don’t want a 1k euros console.
https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/07/23/game-streaming-ad-supported-xbox-insiders/
Today, we’re starting to test an ad-supported way to stream select games from your library for a limited time, available to XBOX Insiders.
During this test period, XBOX Insiders with an XBOX account will be able to stream games they own for free with ads. Players will have one hour session limits across supported devices and regions.
Here’s what you can expect:
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Ads will play before sessions begin.
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The core game experience is unchanged.
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This is optional. Players can choose other ways to play at any time.
I bought the Xbox x for starfield. Mistakes were made.
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Fuck Microsoft
Only 50 center per hour, you say? I mean it’s only 75 cents, that won’t even buy a soda anymore. Who wouldn’t pay a dollar an hour to play the games they love?
Fuck everything about that. Fuck that to hell and back again not a hobbits tale.
Awful idea, but unfortunately completely in character for Microsoft. Windows is basically spyware at this point.
I wonder which high-ranking Microsoft employee made this dumbass decision, knowing it would net them more money
Windows is basically spyware at this point.
Always has been.
I wonder if XBox realizes that their player base isn’t locked into their ecosystem…
And they are certainly far from the only option.
Lol for comparison geforce now is $8.33/month(for yearly plan)for 100 hours a month, plus 15 unused hours roll forward.
I haven’t thought about geforce now for a while. It’s a bit of a different prospect now it’s owned by the highest valued company in America.
