Does anybody remember when I started playingꦐ Hitman for the first time late last year and got hooked? Well, that is what happened – instead of playing the year’s most r🙈ecent releases like a good, dutiful games journalist, I instead dug through Xbox Game Pass’ offerings, picked a game I’ve always wanted to play but never got around to, and got stuck in it. I have to make my subscription worth it somehow, and considering the vast majority of games I play in a year don’t release day one on Game Pass, the archives are what give me the most value. Besides, the more games I play, the more knowledge I have to speak on things. It’s all background knowledge,🍎 in my eyes.
But eventually, I had to set Hitman aside to play more recent games. After all, I had a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:2023 Game of the Year list to write, and (specifically Hitman 3) is a 2021 game, so no matter how many hours I🌊 sunk into it, I could not technically put it on my list. So I put it away, vowing to myself to eventually go back to it when I had some free time. December passed in a flurry of indies and triple-As as I tried to play every recently released game I possibly could. Then January began, and so did my journey to finish . We’re almost three-quarters through the month, and I predict I’ll finish Infinite Wealth by mid-February at the latest. At that point, I would probably check out some shorter indies as well, and be able to finally have a single leisurely weekend of playing Hitman in bed till my vision blurs.
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Except I won’t, because 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Hitman is leaving Game Pass. So are Persona 3, Persona 4, as well as Grand Theft Auto 5. I’m not mad about GTA 5 – I played it when I was a teenager and I don’t need to play it again – but I intended to play Persona 3 and 4 at some point, and I’m just as upset about this as I was when Persona 5 Royal left Game Pass. I was 10 hours into my first attempt to get into P5R when it unexpectedly disappeared from the service, and at that point I wished I’d never started at all. If I want to keep playing Hitman, I’ll have to buy it, and honestly, I might do that. On the off chance that 2024 has any empty 🍎gaming monthꩵs, I’ll be returning to old f✅avourites, i♌ncluding Hitman.
In this sense, Game Pass is working as intended. I played a game for free, and liked it so much that I’m considering buying it now that it’s no longer on the service. That’s a win for the developers and a win for Xbox, both of wh✤om profit if I choose to buy the game on Microsoft’s platform. I definitely don’t mind putting money into IO Interactive’s pocket, considering it made a game I like this much, so that’s not the problem here.
However, it’s not a win for me, the consumer. Much has been made about the Ubisoft executive who said that gamers need to get u☂sed to not owning their games the same way that we’ve gotten used to not owning CDs and DVDs. That’s a stupid statement, considering that streaming, across all different mediums, is becoming increasingly complicated and infuriating and inherently disadvantages the consumer. In television, for example, my colleague Eric Switzer wrote about ♑the difficulties of trying to stream the Pokemon anime and the different subscription services the average viewer would have to jump betwee💜n just🦋 to watch a single show.
I don’t want that for gaming, and I think people should own their media. The fact that the things we pay to have access to can be retracted from us at any time with little fore-warning is bleak. Though I’ve seen multiple games I wanted to play pulled from services like Game Pass, it’s becoming painfully clear now that subscription services are more of a way to trial games for free than to have permanent access to them. Perhaps that was the plan all along. Nobody but the co🦄nsumer benefits from their favourite game being indefinitely available to them for free, and that’s not going to make anybody richer, so thaꦅt won’t happen. I’ll be buying the games I love, because I don’t have a choice.
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