Hypercharge Unboxed Dev Saddened By Claims It'll Be 'Dead' Without Xbox Game Pass

We will see how well it sells soon enough it's the developers choice. However, games on Xbox do sell less which has been proven and why the platform gets treated as a second class system. It's called the Game Pass effect.

These people seem entitled not everything goes on Game Pass if they are that intrested they will buy it. I'm sure it will be on sale soon enough if they can't afford it. Also can just save up rewards points and get for free.

I'm not on social media but it's probably best to ignore haters/trolls it's just negative vibes as damo would say

@Kooky_Geezer I wonder how badly that hurt the devs who released their indie games games on PS Plus Day one? They will of course got the PS Plus effect, or does it only count when Xbox Gamepass does it.?

@Sifi The main difference is PlayStation has a much bigger market share but I'm sure it does effect game sales. If a game is available in a subscription service then people will just play the game on it without buying. Also Game Pass has many more day one games PS+ has mostly older games.

I doubt the studios put games on subscription services unless they are well paid in the first place. It simply wouldn't be worth it otherwise.

Some people just subscribe and don't buy anything which is why developers like this get hassled when they actually want to sell their games.

I pre-ordered a few weeks ago when a release date was announced. The steam review are super positive.

Can't wait.

Do they even have a demo for me to try.
I'm not going to buy a game to try it.
Has the suggestions of gamepass it's just some entitled people.

As far as I am concerned, I couldn't care less about this game and certainly wouldn't be inclined to buy it. I wouldn't go as far to say that its Dead on Arrival or definitely will fail (even if only on Xbox) without Game Pass but you can't expect people to 'try' it without providing some way to do that 'risk free' - either a Free Demo or via a Sub Service. If the Only way to 'try' is to buy and then you can't get your money back as its a Digital Only purchase if you don't think it's worth your time/money, then why 'try'.

As someone with Game Pass, I don't expect EVERY game to release Day/Date into that service. However, EVERY game is competing for my time with some games requiring a Financial expenditure before I can play. Why spend £20 to play something when I can play many 'similar' games at no cost, would rather spend my time in some other games I already have access to.

I'd be much more inclined to try this if it was on Game Pass and much more likely to be able to play with friends as they too can access it via Game Pass instead of waiting until they get paid or trying to convince them to buy...

Games can become surprise viral sensations without launching on a streaming service (see: Helldivers 2, though that obviously does have a big marketing push being a first-party PS title).

And Gamepass has enough games competing for attention that the game needs to be top-quality anyway to stand out and find a foothold. So it could easily find an audience still --- but it will need a demo.

As subscription services continue stalling and/or falling, it's important to remember not everyone has or wants Gamepass. GP might remove one barrier, but for any game the goal is still just a matter of finding your audience.

Whoever made that comment just wanted to play on gamepass. They would never have bought it, even if they liked it.

I played it on the Switch and it was a fun game. The developers listened to feedback from players and made many improvements.

@Kooky_Geezer @Sifi The main difference is just market share. "Game Pass effect" I'm sure factors in, but not really that much more than the way, say Nintendo highlights certain indies in their Directs and their marketing model means everyone buys those Nintendo spotlighted indies and ignores the other 9,999,999 indies in their store. GP in addition to making the game "free" is also just a marketing spotlight that that's the direction most players are going to look because you can't play everything. And if you put your attention on the indies spotlighted in GP, and there's so many there alone, there's not going to be that much bandwidth for other things.

PS Plus affects it somewhat but PS Plus marketshare on PS's isn't as big as GP's among Xbox players because GP is more or less the key selling point of the platform, where on PS it's just an extra (pun not inteded.)

I really don't know how all these indies survive in general. There's only so many games people can play and only so much money buy them, yet there's a constant daily stream of games, most of which most people don't even know exist. Much as I love indies, it's probably a big part of the industry death spiral, there's just so much content in general barely half of it can realistically be a winner.

Headlines a little off. He was annoyed by the insane number of request to put it on gamepass or no buy

Unfortunately it is half true though. I admit myself I skip out on some of the games I would've bought because I'll wait for a gamepass release or my game backlog is growing every month due to gamepass. Example, resident evil 4 remake. The last two remakes came to GP so I assume 4 will eventually make its way (even if it takes 2 years). GP has conditioned some people (not all) to just wait it out or I guess it wasn't meant to be, especially Gamers with less and less time to actually game.

What an absolute nonce you have to be to not buy games coz you have gamepass and even more so if you bitch about games not been on gamepass 🤣 no 3rd party/indie game is guaranteed to come to gp if it's a game you wanna play just buy it🙄

It’s such a shame the devs are having to face these entitled muppets who expect the games they are interested in to be included in Game Pass day one. I always sub to GPU every month but I do not expect every game to be included into the service. Are these same trolls going to message Nightdive Studios complaining that System Shock is not being added to Game Pass day one? I think not.

I’ll be buying this day one and will happily pay to support these devs as the game looks phenomenal considering the budget they had and the fact there’s only six of them! It’s great that they are creating the game for both solo and online players, not just one or the other and that progression will carry over regardless of whether you’re online or not. I really hope the game turns out to be a massive success for them.

Also I think some of the commenters on here are getting too hung up on the word ‘try’. He mentioned it once and you’ve just latched onto it. At its current price, the look of the game, the features it has, etc I think £24.99 is a very fair price. There’s a lot of games out there at a similar price or even more expensive that don’t justify their prices, Trail Out being one example which I’ve received a refund for yesterday, I’d pay £10 for it but imo it’s not worth £24.99.

@MaccaMUFC have to agree here, i think £24 is very fair, considering a bunch of other AAA games and even some indies charge way more for much less.

Article is incomplete. For those unaware, Hypercharged dev spent a whole year begging to @Xbox in twitter to include his game on GamePass (to get the funding) because he didn't want to spend resources in a port where people wouldn't buy it enough to cover the costs. He spammed all over Xbox comments always copy pasting. Now he decided to stop begging, release it in Xbox regardless & is treating those of us who ask him "Oh, so you've finally decided to release it even if it's not on gamepass?" like trolls. Asking stuff like "you've finally decided to stop begging?" is not being a troll, is reality.

The dev should have just ignored it. Now they've given the story roots to spread.

Well, to be fair, I’d have tried it on game pass, but I sure won’t be buying it. It’s not the type of game I’m normally into tho, so that means nothing.

I could have sworn this same dev had asked users if they wanted to see this game on gamepass before. So now that that fell through the dev is pretending like they wanted to do their own thing all along? Am I remembering this incorrectly?

The game has been out for how long on Steam and their best concurrent player count is just above 1k players.

Yeah, dead on arrival without gamepass and the spotlight that would have shined on the game.