Tim Schafer wants Xbox Game Pass to work: In an interview with IGN, the founder of Double Fine Productions reiterated his feelings about Microsoft’s subscription platform, even though his team had to say goodbye to Raymond House.
“I really hope Game Pass works,” Schaefer said. “I like the idea of subscribing For a reality like ours, because, you know, they lower the barrier to entry for everybody. After all, we want to make weird and creative games that you might not even understand at first: I think that’s exactly what we like to do. “
“People happen to be interested in a piece of art, and if the game is included in the subscription, then in a sense you’ve paid for it, so You would definitely be more willing to trywhich seems like a positive to me. ”
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“But there are other ways to attract people, like lowering the price and getting them to try your game. (…) I don’t understand why Netflix works but Game Pass doesn’tI think this is something I don’t know enough about. But that’s what it is, and now we’re taking a different approach: making our games truly accessible. “
Experience with Microsoft
Double Fine became independent again last July, but its relationship with Microsoft has been invaluable. “I learned a lot from this experience Overall it’s been really good,” Tim Shafer explained.
“They’ve invested a lot of money in the company, and their mission is to support Game Pass and other projects. So for a while we were very aligned and everything was going smoothly. It was a great collaboration, Then their goals changed So we decided to separate. “
“But at the same time, I feel like we’ve created a nice little collection of studios within Xbox Game Studios, like Force, Ninja Theory, Obsidian and inXile. We had the opportunity to meet all the team managers and our programmers were able to compare notes with them. “
“Their programmers are all artists, and they all exchange ideas and techniques. It’s really great learning experience About how other companies operate. Because, when you’re independent, you’re kind of like an island that’s connected to other islands over a period of time. “