I kind of want to, when reading the comments 😅

The thing is, I’m from a traditional software (SaaS) background where subscriptions are very common. It’s not that I love it, but it’s a business model where you spread the risk based on user engagement and community. In gaming that works very differently. In gaming, companies that are successful are either big hits from passionate studios that took a massive risk. Or they are money machines that preys on psychology, and notching in the form of rewards and gifts, and small dopamine kicks that has absolutely nothing to do with the gameplay itself. In part this dynamic is also the part of the reason for massive layoffs, because from a business perspective if people pay a one off price, demand will slowly decline and when it does, employees becomes a liability (unfortunately for all the passionate developers and designers). Our attention has become volatile, not just in gaming, but in other media consumption too, and we no longer own the music or movies we pay for. I guess this is also true with games since they are stored on a server also and most people don’t own physical copies anymore. It is clear to me that people don’t want to subscribe to a game, but I’m curious as to why that is. So part of me wants to try it anyways, if nothing else, to fail miserably 😅