Monthly payment services for online services are in fashion, that is clear. We have the examples of Spotify, Netflix, HBO, or the future Diseny + and Apple Arcade. And of course, Google did not have enough with YouTube Music, so it joins - again - the bandwagon with Google Play Pass.
The Google Play Pass will be a paid subscription for the Play Store. Yes, for the Play Store, that service that is free. Then will it be paid? Not exactly, we will tell you in detail.
Google Play Pass
The Google Play Pass is a pass that will allow you to access a great number of games and paid applications for "free" (It is not free as such, you pay the Play Pass and therefore those applications have a cost of 0 for you).
But not only will you be able to download many applications you want in an unlimited way, but you will also not have ads and all payments in app (i.e. in-app purchases) they will be unlocked.
All of this is rumored to be priced at $ 4,99 per month (price possibly subject to tax), although it would have a trial period of 10 days.
Of course this will not be for todas the applications, if not for a part, although surely they are hundreds of apps. For those of you who are used to buying many apps on a regular basis, this subscription can be a way to save money.
The people of Android Police have published some screenshots of what the Google Play Pass will be like.
In the screenshots you can see how they welcome you by informing you of how the Google Play Pass, which is what we have told you so far.
Once you are inside you will have a tab to browse all the applications and games that the Play Pass offers you for free.
Once we select the app or game (it seems that there will be a certain focus on games for that reason) that we want to download. We will go to your usual page of the Play Store, but when you select to buy it will tell us that with Play Pass it is free (or $ 4,99 per month), and we can download the game directly.
We do not know if there will be a regulation for in-app purchases (there are games that have excessively expensive in-app purchases) or if it will only be some of them, or the games will be selected so that in-app payments don't give you much advantage about other players. This will be seen when this pass is officially launched.
What do you think of this idea? Are you one of those who spends a lot of money on the Play Store?