Six weeks after Microsoft canceled its £1/$1 game Pass trial in the run-up to the release of Call of Duty: Black Ops 6, the deal has now been reinstated as part of Microsoft's Black Friday and Cyber Monday promotions. the company, but only for PC. . As was the case before the offer was removed,
My biggest problem with the Xbox app is it blocks you from modding the game by default. It’s up to the developer to enable it. And from my perspective I think many of these developers don’t even know it exists.
The company also has a vested interest in keeping PC players on their OS, while simultaneously treating the platform like a second class citizen for years. Anybody remember the abortion that was Games for Windows Live? And it isn’t like Windows Mixed Reality or ‘this is now a tablet OS’ are doing them any favors either.
God am I happy I didn’t buy any software on the Microsoft store.
I had suggested the GamePass style subscription thing for Steam years ago. This is one thing someone else actually does that Steam does not. I’ll just use both. Because gaming is one of my only hobbies, I play a lot. The subscription model access to an entire catalogue is more economical than buying every single new game for full price. And if I do want to buy them, they’re still usually sold on Steam too.
But you don’t get every single new game with GamePass, either. You get a mediocre set of stuff published by Microsoft with some occasional AA games and a random selection of indies, some of which are actually good, but also aren’t that expensive to just buy and own instead.
That means stuff they publish. Which, despite all their acquisitions, is consistently very mediocre. And because of the day one “free” status, almost always has bad extra monetization on top of it.
It’s an incredibly far cry from the “all” he mentioned, and it isn’t close to the best or most desirable.
I’m well aware of what it has available, and it’s genuinely not good enough to get me to install Windows if they provided it for free. But the entire reason Gamepass exists is because they know it makes them more long term than buying your games.
The subscription model access to an entire catalogue is more economical than buying every single new game for full price.
This is what I said. I never implied they had all games. Only that it’s cheaper in the long run to subscribe and get access to the new games on GamePass than paying full price for each one.
Still desperately trying to get us to leave steam I see
My biggest problem with the Xbox app is it blocks you from modding the game by default. It’s up to the developer to enable it. And from my perspective I think many of these developers don’t even know it exists.
The company also has a vested interest in keeping PC players on their OS, while simultaneously treating the platform like a second class citizen for years. Anybody remember the abortion that was Games for Windows Live? And it isn’t like Windows Mixed Reality or ‘this is now a tablet OS’ are doing them any favors either.
God am I happy I didn’t buy any software on the Microsoft store.
I fell in for mixed reality, and I should have known better. They just killed the entire ecosystem. Standard Microsoft behavior
I had suggested the GamePass style subscription thing for Steam years ago. This is one thing someone else actually does that Steam does not. I’ll just use both. Because gaming is one of my only hobbies, I play a lot. The subscription model access to an entire catalogue is more economical than buying every single new game for full price. And if I do want to buy them, they’re still usually sold on Steam too.
But you don’t get every single new game with GamePass, either. You get a mediocre set of stuff published by Microsoft with some occasional AA games and a random selection of indies, some of which are actually good, but also aren’t that expensive to just buy and own instead.
Most AAA games with even a tangential relation with Microsoft get released on Game Pass on day 1
That means stuff they publish. Which, despite all their acquisitions, is consistently very mediocre. And because of the day one “free” status, almost always has bad extra monetization on top of it.
I really think you’re underestimating how much and what kind of content they offer, but you do you.
It’s an incredibly far cry from the “all” he mentioned, and it isn’t close to the best or most desirable.
I’m well aware of what it has available, and it’s genuinely not good enough to get me to install Windows if they provided it for free. But the entire reason Gamepass exists is because they know it makes them more long term than buying your games.
This is what I said. I never implied they had all games. Only that it’s cheaper in the long run to subscribe and get access to the new games on GamePass than paying full price for each one.
Their catalogue is dogshit and has a very small selection of games that are even worth considering on a steep discount.