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Phil Spencer: Game Pass has millions of subscribers
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I've been on and off the service since State of Decay 2 came out, probably going to re-up while it's half off so I can play crack down 3 and enjoy the 4K games
At least 2 million since it's multiple millions. I doubt they'll say much beyond that, Microsoft doesn't give out numbers ever but before we knew they had at least 1 subscriber so it's much better now.
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I think people worked it out to be around 1.3 million from the Superdata info, of course that didn't take into account the people that get Game Pass for cheaper than $10 a month so it's pretty rough.
Always good to get clear and exact numbers out of MS.
They practically hand out subs so I would hope there's a lot. I've gotten around 10 months of it this year and I don't think I even paid as much as $20 total for it all. There's an offer going right now for 6 months at $30 too.
They practically hand out subs so I would hope there's a lot. I've gotten around 10 months of it this year and I don't think I even paid as much as $20 total for it all. There's an offer going right now for 6 months at $30 too.
It's at least 2 million. He didn't say million, he said millions meaning multiple. We know that State of Decay 2 has like 5 million players and that State of Decay 2 sold over a couple million copies right?
He said millions of subscribers on at least 2 different interviews, so definitely not a misspoke or something like that, likely, he wanted us to notice that even.
You can't take advantage of those deals (most of the time) until you are 3 months without subscribing.
Even the deals that does not have that caveat are only offered to those that are not currently subscribing.
You can stack the 6 months for $30 a bunch of times...that comes out to $5 a month.
Not sure if it was a bug since I haven't looked into it. But with the way they constantly have deals on Game Pass, I am certainly under the impression that most people are not actually paying $10/month for it.
That was an error and not something you can do on a consistent basis. Majority of people dont even know that error existed. Same with bing awards majority of people dont have time , patience or understanding to waste time in that. For the most hardcore gamers deals like that exist.
They constantly have deals, but like I said that deals are only offered to non subscribers. Right now for instance, I believe they are offering $1 for a month if you didn't subscribed in the last 3 months and 50% off on 3 months if you are a current subscriber.
What's the benefit of bundling if it's the exact same price (more expensive than the frequent discounts, even)?
Imagine the highest number imaginable and go with that one.
Seriously, these companies keeping numbers secret is ridiculous. There is no good reason for it other than obfuscation.
During E3, they had deals that were offered to everyone, 6 months for $30. I still have 5 codes to use but I am waiting to use to for when there will be more game I want to play.
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Easier for some consumers, one bill, simplified. More savvy consumers will always get GP and Live for cheaper than msrp.
Why are people pretending to be concerned about Microsoft's bottom line? They're like a trillion dollar corporation.
Netflix is the biggest loss leader in streaming.
Are we about to question their success?
Game Pass is in its early stages. The studio acquisitions they've made and will continue to make are all in service to Game Pass.
Clearly it makes business sense to them.
Netflix is the biggest loss leader in streaming.
Are we about to question their success?
Game Pass is in its early stages. The studio acquisitions they've made and will continue to make are all in service to Game Pass.
Clearly it makes business sense to them.
Yeah, if the numbers weren't there it would've been ditched. They have the analytics.
Can someone point me to the 50% for 3 months for current subscribers deal? I would like to add another year on.
Yup.
Corporations the size of Microsoft rarely look at anything in the short term.
If anything, we should take advantage when their prices are low if the service is desirable.
If it doesn't pan out for them I'm not about to lose sleep over it.
Because literally everything is platform wars to some people. It's no more obvious than people trying to find fault or failure in a service that is extremely consumer friendly like Game Pass is.
There's literally no reason not to like it or want it to not succeed yet here we are every time it is mentioned.
If that was the estimated hard number they arrived at, this would be a pretty embarassing figure to come out. Having polled at best 1/5th of the actual figure sounds like more than one standard-deviation off from reality.
Lmao at people actually taking SuperData seriously, I don't think there was any way for them to even estimate how many subscribers PSNow/Game Pass had but Game Pass having millions of subscribers right now doesn't account to much considering that they've been giving it for super cheap or free I think.
