LogFAQs > #958336481

I agree that all of those things suck, but the gaming ones in particular always come off as being melodramatic, like it's the end of gaming. There are hundreds if not thousands of games that are pretty easily available that don't do that crap. And people will say "we shouldn't stand for that or the industry will get worse", but people were saying that ten years ago, and in that time those practices in some way have improved (and in some ways gotten worse).

More than microtransactions, and someone did allude to this, the next big potential pitfall seems to be the service model. Game pass seems cool but I don't want it to turn into something where that's the only option, and things get dropped off like Netflix with no easy way to get them. I mean that kinda already happens somewhat with purchased digital games but it's rare. Plus there's a big difference between an end of lifed platform making a game unavailable for purchase, but you can still play it if you already bought it, vs an active platform dropping your access to something you may have already been in the middle of playing.