Comment by athrowaway3z

There is no bait-and-switch, but this is going to change things.

The industry is scared of recompiling and how AI has driven costs for people to host their own servers. That includes games like GTA where a lot of recurring revenue is from people spending money in online mode.

Microsoft would "solve" that issue, as well as normalize more players to spend monthly instead of once.

“Nothing changes” for your DVD/CDs when Netflix and Spotify arrived.

I personally have my doubts this is going to work, but the thing this model does open up is mainstream games having LLM driven NPCs.