Only if you can keep people subscribed, the lure of a true perpetual purchase, vs a subscription service is that subscription is a lower fee. But they have to lock you in somehow.

Especially when you aren't consistently providing a quality product. If every game is a hit, people will buy them all, but if your games are hit or miss, you keep making revenue regardless.

Wait untill you hear about loans and regular interest payments lol.

A more refined method of generating consistent, regular cashflow, rofl.

(Ahem, at least in theory, but then when that stops working, surprise! you get a bailout!)

... But yeah, the natural evolution we should expect is that MSFT (or Hulu or any other sub based service) will soon or at least eventually partner with something like klarna to offer 3-6 month payment loan options ... for every recurring monthly subscription payment.

Think about it.

What that means is that... well, if you cancel on month 5, you're still making payments through month 8, or month 11.

So ... should you really go 3 - 6 months paying for not having something?

Or just keep your subscription going?

Loans are literally the OG of 'dark pattern', MTX style bullshit, its a perfect match made in hell.

Hypercapitalism, away!!!

But they lost money