I bought an Xbox just for gamepass. 200+ games, may not have everything I want to play but it always has something I fun I do want to play.

(Also xbox sales are often very good. I'm ok paying $10-20 (sometimes less!) for games).

I suppose it helps that my backlog is 6 years now; up until last week I was still playing games on 360/ps3.

My partner has a ps4 and some subscription thing (PS now?). It ends up being about 6$/month and new games are available each month (including some AAA). If each month you add them to your library you quickly end up with a backlog of more games than you can play.

games seems to loose value rapidly after they are released so some are very affordable.

I just can't get over the idea that a game I'm playing today might be removed from gamepass tomorrow. As a result, I don't want to play anything on gamepass, or subscribe. Although I think I might have somehow accidentally subscribed anyway. I'll stick to gold.

If it get pulled and you enjoy it that much take advantage of the discount (every game on Game Pass has a somewhat discounted price for members) and buy it. There’s been a handful of games here or there I didn’t want to lose when they were retiring, and others that I played but didn’t really miss. I still save a lot of money compared to buying every game I ever want to play - especially given many of them I enjoy but not enough to shell out full price on

Not games but music. One of the things Spotify and Apple Music bring to the table is search and cataloging. It's less of an issue for video games where you might be seriously interested in 20 titles, but for songs, someone else organizing it for you is a huge value-add.

Sadly, due to licensing agreements, nothing can beat the breadth, depth, and curation of the classic not-legit sites that were shut down. I pay for Spotify, but several albums I have on e.g. CD are not available there, and you can't put local music into a Spotify playlist or vice versa.

No service will ever compare to how awesome Oink’s Pink Palace was. It just worked and it had everything. No blackouts, no licensing windows, no format issues. Just all music.

You can put local music into a Spotify playlist.

https://support.spotify.com/us/using_spotify/features/listen...

I should have clarified that I mean music that is stored on my phone while I'm not at home. Also, the default Spotify player in Ubuntu is in a SNAP container that can't access my music folder and won't follow symlinks from the SNAP's designated music folder to other folders.

But it is entirely possible. I paid money for a Git client, for example, even though what it can do is a strict subset of what I can do with the command line tools.