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Gamepass a service that lets you play games, but GaaS generally refers to stuff like Roblox and Fortnite–individual games that act as a platform to sell you things from. That's where the flaws are. I'm struggling to see the flaw with GP except for the inherent flaws with paying for a revokable license to download games in the first place. At least GP doesn't lie about you owning the games that you're playing like "buying" them from the xbox store does.
I mean, is Netflix flawed for offering movies as a service? You pay a monthly fee to be able to watch a wide variety of shows and movies, but you don't own any of it. It's literally exactly the same thing except for the type of media they offer.
that's the neat part, i don't have netflix either. services that exist from content that once was and is obtainable. i don't see the value in movie, video game, or tv subscriptions,
The value is that you get to experience more stuff for less money. There's literally a dollar amount of value there. I paid $500 to play X number of games instead of $>500 to play X number of games. If you don't consume any media at all, then obviously it isn't worth it, but don't act like it isn't worth it to people who do consume any kind of media at all. Not all of us spend our days looking at trees or replaying the same Mario game or whatever you do for fun.