[thatguy0900]

would gamepass be the closest to that? The other alternative would be games being small indie projects or huge community things. The mods people release for free are sometimes pretty insane in scope, even if Noone ever paid for a game again we'd still get some decent games at least

[GekkePrutser]

Game pass is more like the Netflix of gaming. Not all the content you want but at a reasonable price. Stuff gets removed a lot and there's lots of fragmentation with competing services.

[whatshisface]

Gamepass would be cable for videogames, PBS for videogames would be a government agency that made them.

[dleslie]

The government of Canada funds the development of a fair amount of video games through the Canadian media fund.

[whatshisface]

Are the results of that fund designed for compulsion to a lesser degree than most games made with similar sized budgets?

[dleslie]

It mostly funds indie titles, afaict, so I'll hazard to say they have less focus on compulsion.

[thewebcount]

PBS is not a government agency. According to [0] they get about 13% of their budget from the federal government and 5% from state governments. So less than 20% of their funding is from the government.

[0] https://www.quora.com/How-much-support-does-the-U-S-governme...