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Everyone's favorite AAA company might be facing bankruptcy (lemmy.world)
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[–] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 24 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

That's not what they meant. The person who said it was "director of subscriptions." They meant gamers need to get used to all games being SaaS because they are of the opinion that that's what's going to happen. SaaS is capable of generating magnitudes more money than any other paradigm, so this is of course the wet dream of the bean counters.

The problem with the statement, of course, is threefold:

  1. People don't like being told things that sound a lot like "just hand over your money and like it, dumbasses"
  2. SaaS is also capable of failing spectacularly
  3. (most important) In no conceivable world would it be possible to have every single game be a subscription service

Shit, the world can't even support half a dozen streaming video subscription services, but they think everybody's going to gladly pay monthly fees for every game they play?