I don’t think Microsoft will do so, at least in the foreseeable future. One of their selling points to devs is that they’ll see their sales go up in addition to the GP revenue. There would be a lot of publishers who would pull out if they can’t sell their game and have it on GP.

They might do it for their own games, but even that could be a stretch. Starfield saw huge sales on both Xbox and PC in addition to those who are using GamePass.

Great, you can unsubscribe and just buy the games you want at that point.

GP really isn’t that bad imo. There’s much better examples.

With GamePass, all the games are still available to buy, often both in the Xbox store and Steam. You also get a discount if you do want to buy it.

But with streaming services, it’s much worse since you can’t often buy the media. You’re forced to use their service every time you want to watch it.

Accountant?

The number of times I’ve received a file that was or could have been a CSV extract is insane.

At least Excel has gotten pretty good at extracting text.

Still, not much worse than receiving an Excel file with an embedded PDF.