There’s been a lot of chatter recently with regards to subscription services and their potential to eventually become the dominant force model-wise in the games industry. However, it looks like the current data on offer doesn’t indicate that a dystopian future like that coming to fruition is anything like a foregone conclusion.
In case you’re out of the loop, Ubisoft’s director of subscriptions Philippe Tremblay kicked off a bit of a discourse by suggesting in an interview with GiBiz earlier this week that players need to get more comfortable with the idea of not owning their games in a traditional fashion in order for subscriptions continue growing at the same rate they have been so far. As you might expect, a lot of people aren’t fans of the idea of those services becoming the only way games are served to players and getting to dictate what kinds of games get made.
However, it looks like the current data and forecasts games industry analysts are seeing doesn’t really support the idea of the gaming space being subjected to total subscription service domination any time soon.