Eric shared this article with me about how Spotify “libraries” are fluid with the service’s overall library and will disappear altogether when the service goes away.
Source:: Spotify Has Changed Music Libraries Forever
This made me think of my experience with Xbox Game Pass. I subscribed to Xbox Game Pass for Windows for a few months. I really liked that I had a large library of games I could just download and play, all covered under my monthly fee. Far less than the cost of even a single game.
Then, games I still wanted to play started disappearing off the service. This doesn’t fit well with the way I play games. I will buy a game, play it a bit, put it down for months or even years, and return to it later.
Also, I would go through these periods of a few weeks where I wouldn’t play games much at all. I’d spend the little time I played focused on a single game that might have cost me $20 to buy, and I’d play nothing but that for 3 months. Now, I’ve got 50% more than the cost of ownership into renting a single game.
I ended up having a lot of anxiety around it and canceled it. I’m back to just collecting on Steam, and I think I prefer it.