Game Pass sets quarterly revenue record, sees 30% growth in PC subscribers

Black Ops 6 and Indiana Jones released in this measured quarter. Mainly COD pulling these numbers up.
30% is huge though. I think with game pass, keeping those subscribers means adding more high quality games at a good cadence. Doom the dark ages, Avowed, Fable releasing this year might be a part of this strategy.
- This year is already looking crazy good. Citizen Sleeper 2, the surprise drop of Ninja Gaiden 2 Black, Ninja Gaiden 4 day one, O.G. Diablo... The hits just keep coming.
  
  I had a game pass sub a couple of years ago and quit it because the games that I wanted to play quickly ran out. I had a sub for a month until a few days ago and I must say game pass is in a way better place than it used to be.
  Nine Sols, Kunitsu Gami, Cocoon, Chants of Senaar and black ops 6 campaign were all unexpectedly good experiences.
- I don't think Fable is releasing this year, they've still shown barely anything and it was missing entirely from their recent developer direct of high profile 2025 games.
  
  Oh, I thought Fable was getting released sometime later this year. Google suggests as much.
  
  Games have short marketing cycles these days, so it's not much of an indicator for when it's due to release. Perfect Dark wasn't there either, and I think both are allegedly slated for this year.
- I'm loving doing eternal on my new 3070. But not from game pass though.
  
  How good does Doom run! It is incredibly well optimised. My steam deck was getting a solid 60fps on medium settings from memory.

I can't be the only one that has had issues with game pass, can I? I've tried it 3 separate times for 2-3 months each on three different PCs, and every time I've had different issues.
The windows client has been buggy. Sometimes clicking things just... doesn't work. The pathing for save files is done in such a way that you can't transfer them from PC to PC. Some games just straight up not working. The list went on for me. I figured I'd keep giving it another try on a new system, but not anymore.
I've read some people have absolutely zero issues after years of using it. I wonder why the experiences vary so highly from user to user. Game Pass was an interesting service, but a horrible experience for me.
- I've had issues as well with installing games. The worst thing about Game Pass is that the games are installed deep in your file system that you can't access normally. You have to fight with the file manager and mess with ownerships just to copy your save file...
- Dont forget that it also creates folders that you cannot delete without either booting up a copy of Linux or reformatting your machine.
- The Microsoft store is broken. I haven't had issues with Gamepass specifically but I have had issues with the Microsoft store, so buggy that the only fix to download a game was to reinstall Windows. Happened to my desktop and laptop the same.
- I had some issues with game pass like you experienced in the beginning, but haven't had problems since.
- Genuinely an awful user experience. It runs so laggy and slow on my computer, despite relatively modern hardware
- I used it a lot like 5 years ago when they basically gave it away for $1 a month and then gave you additional months sometimes for $3 if you stayed. I even found a really old Xbox gamepass 1 year card from like 2004, which I got for xmas from an aunt who thought I had an Xbox. My mind was blown when it worked, and then they let you convert that old service into gamepass months for a bit. Anyway, it worked great, no issues at all. The one issue I ended up having was around space, I think. I wanna say it was something weird, like if you deleted the game from the client and it still kept the files. You had to do extra things to make sure they deleted because the files were also kept in the same location as the windows store files, which is a super odd place if you ever seen it.

I know this is going to backfire: gamepass is convenient but every person subscribing fuels the toxic „rentseeking culture“ of capitalists worldwide. Some would say that its much better to pirate than to use this shit. Besides: it is technologically subpar and surely privacy invasive.
- Gaming industry today is 90% gambling addiction: chests, gaming pass, achievements, competition, etc...Most "hardcore gamers" are stupid casual-competitive toxic players, or wannabe twitchers, without a real artistic culture. Glad we have indie devs and many real passionate people supporting these.
  /rant
- I mean, I’ll bite: I enjoyed GP for a while, up until MS went firing-crazy and upped their prices.
  Until then, I was very aware I rented games and might not get to play them later. Given that I was generally playing games that were new or sampling genres I don’t play much of, I wasn’t opposed to the time limitation, and the low price was reasonable.
  Now that their price increased, I ended it. I am not locked into their ecosystem, and in fact swore off it pretty easily due to their changing circumstances.
  I would agree the renting situation is poisonous when it comes to housing, because the model has driven the purchasing price of homes through the sky. But that is a situation with scarcity of goods. You can get video games anywhere.
  
  I would agree if there wasnt a giant hole in your reasoning.
  Once you stopped paying, „your“ library evaporated. It isnt that you rent out individual games. You have whole libraries built just from that.
  And please dont go into the „gamers responsibility“. Thats an ableist view. Lots of gamers are underage and/or unable to make basic decisions especially against dark patterns and social pressure. Education and laws to limit exposure to this toxic stuff needs to happen, period.