Xbox Game Pass can be popular among the players, but if you ask the founder of Arkane Studios, Raphael Coantonio, this is bad news for long -term players and developers.
If there was one point to remember from the annual window of Microsoft Xbox games last month, it was the central role of Xbox Game Pass in the future of Microsoft’s game strategy. This weekend, Coantonio, who separated from Arkane eight years ago, spoke of this change, slamming the growing dependence of Microsoft at his subscription service.
In a post on xCoantonio said: “I think Gamepass is an unbearable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade, subsidized by” infinite money “of MS, but at one point, reality must strike. I do not think that GP can coexist with other models, they will kill everyone or abandon.”
I think that Gamepass is an unbearable model that has increasingly damaged the industry for a decade, subsidized by “infinite money” of MS, but at some point, reality must strike. I don’t think GP can coexist with other models, they will kill everyone or abandon.July 5, 2025
He added answers to the position that Game Pass is “a long game that involves launching a tsunami on the whole ecosystem of the industry. Only players love it because the offer is too good to be true, but even the players will hate it when they make the effects on the games.”
“I’m sure it was good for some people, but you have to look at the net results.”
Colantonio left Arkane Studios in 2017 before his parent company, Zenimax Media, was acquired by Microsoft in 2021. He was at the helm of the studio when he was dishonored and prey (who are now on Game Pass), but was occupied with new projects At the Wolfeye studio during the Microsoft era of Arkane.
Coantonio is not the first criticism to highlight the similarities of Game Pass with television streaming services. Game Pass is a lot for players, just like Netflix, Disney +, and everything else was originally. From now on, the prices are higher, these services are filled with announcements and the careers in Hollywood are dried up in difficulty in difficulty in achieving a profit.
It is not difficult to imagine Game Pass leading the game industry on a similar path. However, this takes place, Microsoft is clearly too involved in the service to be retreated, given its sales of collapsed console. For better or for worse, the spell of Xbox is linked to Game Pass, which means that beloved studios like Obsidian, Arkane Lyon and Bethesda are too.