MS advertising of games and gamepass needs to be better. If Starfield does release this year and say it is exclusive. They need to advertise the game first and gamepass second. Stop undermining the status of the AAA. AA is perfectly fine, but show off the game hype up the features, most importantly its a 70$ game not everyone on the planet wants xgp. Advertise it as a 70$ game first available on gamepass second. They're not hurting their service if they mention "oh it's on gamepass for 10$". Obviously not just Starfield but ALL of their future AAA's.

In some ways it does undermine AAA hype and production if you advertise gamepass first then the AAA product second second.

This is why I'm a little iffy on Gamespass. Sure it's a great value for consumers but really at what long term cost? It could end up dooming many large AAA games for the future. On the other hand, I'm not a fan of Nintendo's approach either of rarely ever discounting their games no matter how old they are beyond a certain price.

I'm tired of the "devalued" argument.
If the devs/publishers weren't making bank on the deals. Let alone thinking it would kill future sales in the process then, as a business - something that exists to make money - why the hell would they be taking these deals?

Not everything fit to be a subscription services, it is not about who is taking the hit, even if MS is paying off everything as a lost, it basically changes everyone's mindset of how much a game should have costed. Think about early mobile gaming compare to what we have now, those games that we all needed to pay a few bucks for back then are far better than all these "free to play" games that we have now.

Let's say gamepass is successful for MS, become the next trend, but only they can sustain, then now what? We want every other consoles and studios out there to go under? Real gamers care about the health of the industry, if console gaming become shitty mobile gaming, because no one wants to pay anymore, then I will find a new hobby.