I don’t think it will simply because the way game pass is implemented is via the MS Store version of those games. Using Steam would likely require them to switch to the Steam version of games and might not be that straightforward? Who knows.
Piracy always exists and will always be there once you get an awful deal as a customer. That’s what’s already happening to streaming services. If they don’t learn from that, they’ll just suffer later on.
If I plan to play the game long term and potentially play it on my Deck. The only reason I have Game Pass is for CoD because the player base for that game dies in less than a year when a new one is about to come out.
It’s interesting to see the demographic and maybe because I’m in an Asian country but among my peers, old zoomers and young millenials, it seems like any console is more for people while kids usually play games on their phone.
I mean, it’s a hard definition to specify though. I don’t think anyone would argue that Smash players are not “gamers” and the majority of gamers don’t seem to care about things like these if they are even aware of it.
Nintendo isn’t doing all that hot either reputation-wise.
Outside of Lemmy and certain circles, it certainly feels that Nintendo is doing fine. I can’t say for sure but anecdotally I’ve hardly seen ant criticism of Nintendo whereas Sony and Microsoft get quite a lot of it. I know that may not really count for much but it’s hard to get a proper gauge of these things.
I do wonder how this works for offline play which is fairly common for handheld PCs. Does Game Pass work offline?