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[–] 1 point 3 months ago (4 children)

It never made sense, hence i never used it, despite getting keys for it gifted regularly. But, what made me wonder in your comment, why do you want to play a game you wouldn't have bought? Too shitty to buy, good enough to play? Or is it "too expensive for my interests to buy, but interesting enough to play a while for some lil bucks"?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

    More of the latter. A triple A costs 70-80 USD now on release and it's hard to justify that cost when game pass let's me play that plus a bunch of other stuff for a month for a fraction of that price. Even if I take 3 months to finish it, I'm still spending less than I would've from buying it out right. Plus if I do lose interest past the first month, I can just stop right there.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    And if you play it over the course of 2 months and reaalllllyyyy like it and wanna buy, then you paid even more?

    I rarely buy AAA on release. If they aren't crap they're unoptimized. I usually just wait a year or longer and buy when it's fixed or don't if they didn't care. Been burnt too many times 😁

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (1 child)

    And if you play it over the course of 2 months and reaalllllyyyy like it and wanna buy, then you paid even more?

    Well if I go with this method, these are usually singleplayer games that I'm fairly confident I can finish within a few months and won't really play more than that so it hasn't ever reached that point for me at least.

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