Xbox Game Pass has been billed as a great deal for customers and developers alike, offering access to a huge catalog of games for players and a built-in audience for the studios that make them. But after a massive wave of layoffs at Microsoft, some developers are debating whether Game Pass is worth the cost, or if it’s hurting the industry.
“I think Game Pass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade, subsidized by Microsoft’s ‘infinite money,’ but at some point reality has to hit,” Raphael Colantonio, co-creator of Dishonored, wrote on social media. “I don’t think Game Pass can co-exist with other models, they’ll either kill everyone else, or give up.”
