Arkane founder claims Game Pass “has been increasingly damaging the industry”

Over the years, there has been a ton of back and forth discussions surrounding Microsoft’s subscription service Xbox Game Pass and its impact on the industry. While some have claimed it to be a net negative – others state the opposite. Now, the founder and ex-CEO of Arkane Studios has weighed in on the matter, calling it “unsustainable.”

Raphael Colantonio was the founder and CEO of Arkane Studios from its inception back in 1999. Since then, Colantonio co-created the excellent immersive sim series Dishonored as well as Arkane Austin’s Prey reboot – before ultimately departing in 2017.

Currently working on a new immersive sim at WolfEye Studios, Colantonio took to Twitter to offer some thoughts on Xbox Game Pass and its model, stating:

“I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade, subsidized by MS’s ‘infinite money’, but at some point reality has to hit. I don’t think GP can co-exist with other models, they’ll either kill everyone else, or give up.”

Of course, this comes at a time when Microsoft just fired over 9000 employees; shutting down game studios while also gutting others; cancelling a bunch of titles and more. As such, the frustration felt by Colantonio is understandable.

Whether Game Pass is truly unsustainable, we will have to wait and see, but given the fact that Microsoft willingly shuts down successful endeavours it’s anyone’s guess what the future of Game Pass looks like.

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