If the episodes in this Initiative game are self contained, I have no problem, that’s something that could work really well and I would love to see that kind of a model being explored. But if its a single game broken into parts and made into episodes like Tell me Why, not entirely on board with that. It works with the type of games Dontnod makes, don’t know how it will in a game that’s more gamey than mere narrative heavy walking simulator type experiences. It would also mean game pass is directly influencing the nature and structure of the game, which will not make sense for those who aren’t in game pass or don’t intend to subscribe to it, which is still gonna be a thing, mind you. Even I unsubscribed game pass on pc when most of the games on there I’ve already played or the fact that most of the games that come to console game pass come in late to pc (Doom Eternal, EA play, etc) or never make it here in the first place (RDR2 Monster Hunter, Nier, TW3, DMC5, etc), or the fact that most of the first party games are years away, and there are other options like Epic store that gives away games on a regular basis as well, and not just some random games but highly acclaimed indie and AAA games even.
All in all, it’d have potential to be received poorly by those who aren’t in gamepass ecosystem seeing games being fundamentally altered by it yet being distributed to them outside it, having that disconnect is something the game has to convince super hard that it’s aok, and imo one way to do it is to keep those episodes self contained than sequential.