"The gold rush is over" - Indie Developers say that big Gamepass game deals have dried up.

[Grand Conde]

"In an interview at last week's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, the developers behind indie sensations Slay the Spire and Darkest Dungeon said that the deal some small developers have come to rely on for funding in recent years—like Epic Game Store exclusives and Xbox Game Pass—are no longer what they once were.

Slay the Spire launched to slow sales in Steam early access before eventually becoming a deckbuilding juggernaut. Darkest Dungeon was likewise a Steam early access success; both games are available on PC Game Pass, though DD director Chris Bourassa said that Microsoft's deals for getting games on Game Pass have "come down in scope" since the subscription service began. "

'The gold rush is over:' Slay the Spire and Darkest Dungeon devs say that big Game Pass and Epic exclusive deals have dried up for indie devs

It's not easy to get funding for a new game right now.

www.pcgamer.com

 

[daze23]

those Epic deals need to go away

 

[MeachTheMonster]

Sony stans

 

[itsyoung!!]

Meanwhile, Sony stock is having a race to $0 and financial issues

down almost 10% ytd as of today

last month;

Sony plunged $10 billion after its PS5 sales cut. But a bigger issue is its near decade low games margin

Around $10 billion of value was wiped off Sony's stock this week after it cut its sales forecast for its flagship PlayStation 5 console for the fiscal year.

www.cnbc.com

 

[ORDER_66]

We warned them...

 

[-DMP-]

don’t be mad, there’s movie games hiring

 

[levitate]

.005 cent per download Spotify-like terms incoming.

 

[daze23]

this is ironic coming from PCGamer. I guess their Epic money dried up too

 

[Stone]

Well they’ve got more of their own studios now so this makes sense

 

[Grand Conde]

this is ironic coming from PCGamer. I guess their Epic money dried up too

...it's coming from two of the best known Indie developers in the world, read the article.

 

[Grand Conde]

Well they’ve got more of their own studios now so this makes sense

Gamepass is a failure and its growth has died over the last few years.

 

[Doomsday]

Gamepass is a failure and its growth has died over the last few years.

Stop.

 

[Grand Conde]

Stop.

It’s clear that Microsoft is a ways away from hitting its ambitious goal of 100 million Xbox Game Pass subscribers by 2030. Microsoft targeted a 73 percent growth rate for Game Pass subscriptions for a single fiscal year that ended in June 2022, but only managed 28 percent. The company then dropped Xbox Game Pass growth as a target for Satya Nadella’s executive compensation last year, after first exceeding its ambitious Game Pass internal targets in 2020 and then failing to meet compensation targets for two years in a row.

Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass service grows to 34 million subscribers

Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass growth has slowed.

www.theverge.com

 

[Stone]

Gamepass is a failure and its growth has died over the last few years.

Certain people are rooting for this outcome but not quite , got a lot of stuff in the pipeline in these next couple years.

But if these games don’t hit it can certainly head that way

 

[daze23]

...it's coming from two of the best known Indie developers in the world, read the article.

do you know what "too" means?