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Message: [QUOTE="Vardalis, post: 551279, member: 144210"] Rip bozos. Really though, the entire strategy was flawed for a medium where most cash is generated through initial sales, DLC and microtransactions. People already embedded in an ecosystem, like Steam or Playstation, aren't going to jump ship because of Gamepass. People who buy Fifa, CoD and nothing else aren't likely to keep forking out month after month for Gamepass. People who have dozens of subscriptions for things like Netflix, Prime, Doordash, etc, aren't going to be as enticed as opposed to just buying a game outright. They also kept giving out cheap or extremely discounted periods of Gamepass. What was the retention rate on those? It's also the thing of when a game leaves the service that's it. You don't own it. You're doing rentals on things that tend to last longer than a box set or series of movies on a streaming service, and if you ever wanted to play them again after they're gone you'd have to buy them anyway. So why not buy them in the first place. Not to mention the whole "everything is an xbox" campaign muddying the waters and general signposting and consumer awareness being extremely poor during this period of Xbox. I couldn't even tell you what the most recent powerful version of the console is called as someone embedded in the hobby. [/QUOTE]

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