Is it just me, or is Game Pass not feeling like a very good deal lately?

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Is it just me, or is Game Pass not feeling like a very good deal lately?
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Game Pass is great if you like to play lots of different games, and not so great if you wind up using it to put 400 hours into Vampire Survivors, a game that costs $5 to own outright.

isn't out until September, so if you were planning to play it on Game Pass, you could skip May, June, July, and August, and be $40 richer when you resubscribe for Todd Howard's space adventure. That's $40 you could use to buy aAlternatively, you could put that money toward purchasing Starfield itself rather than setting yourself up for a future dilemma when you realize that you've spent more money to play it on Game Pass than you would've by buying it.

: that games aren't consumed like movies and TV shows, and so he doesn't see things like Game Pass replacing direct sales as the primary way people get their games. He could be wrong in the long term, but it rings true for now. PC Game Pass is great if you like to play lots of different games, and not so great if you wind up using it to put 400 hours into, a game that costs $5 to own outright.

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