Games with Gold literally gave you ownership of a game. This is a subscription that gives you access to games. That’s more than a semantic difference and is a trend we have to be wary of.
Games with Gold literally gave you ownership of a game.
Did they? I was under the impression that the games you collect with Gold won’t start if your subscription runs out similar to PS+.
No longer an xbox user but for what one would pay in a year on this it would be cheaper to just pick them up in the steam sales over time.
The enshittification of Xbox live has begun, as we all predicted it would when gamepass became a thing.
Enshittification of Xbox Live was day one of launch, dude. Online used to be free, nobody charged for it until Xbox did.
As long as they don’t change my $60/yr price point, I’m ok with it. I never really played too many of the games with gold games anyway.
Lmao, I’m sure I won’t have to wait long either. Subscriptions tend to climb unfortunately. I used to pay $10/mo for netflix, what’re we at now? Like 16-18?
Yeah, for $1 (between 9.99 and 10.99) this is just a price decoy / asymmetric dominance exercise.
Core will go away (or at least deprioritized from a marketing perspective) once they’ve successfully transitioned everyone off GfG.
Gamepass console doesn’t include online multiplayer. You need ultimate at 15 a month to get both the gamepass library and online play.
Ah man, that’s kinda goofy. I have PC Game Pass and I know they’re technically different products.
I agree it’s goofy. It’s just dumb that online multiplayer is still locked behind a paywall. I have Ultimate and I think it’s a good value at the moment but it still ticks me off I can’t play online on my Xbox without an active sub. Not to mention that Microsoft puts ads on the Xbox homepage that are not optional. Feels like they’re having their cake and eating it too.
From the markers of Xbox, Xbox One and Xbox Series, get the best deal of gaming with GamePass Core, GamePass Console, GamePass PC and GamePass Ultimate!
So…Gold once gave us 2 Xbox One and 1 360 game a month to keep for as long as we had Gold, regardless if they were in the “library” or not.
In the last 12 months, the service has “evolved” to just a tiny part of the Game Pass library and pretty much nothing else.
Glad I’ve got a PS5 instead of a Series X because this “service” has completely died.
This is why I’m not happy with the Activision aquisition. It’d be one thing if Microsoft had become a pioneer of QOL improvements for the consumer. But they’re not making any improvements. They’re regressing. At least Sony still feels like they’re trying to evolve into a better corporation. Their shift to Stars was mostly an upgrade. Microsoft continues to be anti-consumer at every chance they get.
