Re: So, What Games Are You Looking Forward To? (2025 Ed)

On Sun, 26 Jan 2025 10:02:45 -0800, Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
wrote:

On 1/26/2025 4:03 AM, Rin Stowleigh wrote:

On Sat, 25 Jan 2025 16:26:49 -0700, "rms"
<rsquiresMOO@MOOflashMOO.net> wrote:
 

DOOM: The Dark Ages catches my interest first, but it doesn't
necessarily mean I will buy it in 2025.  For $80 with no multiplayer,
it's more likely to get picked up when it hits $10.

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   It's a day one PC Gamepass release (like Indy), which I'd forgotten
about, so I will be looking at this soon after release
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rms

 
I haven't used Gamepass, but I have used the Origin equivalent of that
(whatever they are calling it these days) to vet games that I wanted
an entire month to evaluate, but didn't want to commit to the initial
release price (which for some games is $120 for the "complete
edition").

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It'd be nice if more games had demos again so you didn't have to pay for
a month of Gamepass.  Especially as there's a number of games that are
on Elite Gamepass (let us gouge you for more!) that I'm mildly
interested in, but not enough to pay more.

For those of us into multiplayer games, I think the demo would really
need to be in the form of a 30 day trial which is a bit different than
the classic business model around releasing demos.  And to some extent
I'm not sure I would want them giving away 30 days for free, because
it would probably just attract more hacker/cheater attempts.