Google thinks of a ” Play Pass ” subscription for apps and games in the Play Store

Google has announced new features for Android developers such as instant apps for the demo of paid games; the company is focusing a lot on the gaming field, considered a very profitable category, so much so that it is planned to create a subscription: ” Play Pass “.

XDA developers have peeked inside the Google Play Store code, there are a few lines of code where ” PLAYPASS_SUBSCRIPTION ” is written. This line of code has been in place since June, but in the last few days, XDA received a survey on Google Opinion Rewards asking for a ” Pass “. This could confirm that it is in the interest of Google the subscription thing, but that this function is still under study to understand if it will be useful, or it will be a failure.

What is Play Pass?

It is a subscription that offers a package of applications and games monthly that would otherwise have to be paid individually. Probably once the subscription is canceled these apps will no longer be available for use, but we cannot say with certainty.

The available apps will still be limited for a simple reason: in most cases, the applications we use are free, but have some paid services; same speech for the games that are installed for free, but that will ” help / speed up ” if you buy the packages (most often gems or coins). The Mountain View colossus should include in the Play Pass applications that interest a small niche of users. There are no data relating to the price.

Google is certainly still studying well how to better structure this service to avoid the risk of investing money in the project unnecessarily, is clearly interested in the games and Play Pass will be exploited a lot in this category.