I'm the opposite with Game Pass. I bought every Horizon but will now never pay a penny for one again. Setting aside there's no need for me to pay for Game Pass thanks to Reward and the slow games output of MS, being able to use Game Pass has negated any need to pay for the games as there's zero gained for the additional outlay. Tbh, presumably most of those games sold are for the non-GP users which still make up the majority of Xbox players.
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Horses for courses. Different folk etc. I’m not interested in something like gamepass at all. I don’t play multiple games at once so it would annoy me that I was paying a fee to access loads of games I’m not playing. Also I wouldn’t want to be restricted to playing only what gamepass says I can play. I have tried it in the past and ended up playing state of decay 2 quite a bit but in my head it was stressing me out because I knew I didn’t own that game. The service in some ways seems like a replacement for the free demos we used to get (on all platforms) except now we’re paying for it.
If you are someone with a lot of free time for gaming then gamepass is obviously utterly fantastic though and guess there are a lot of people who fit that bill!
My other concern is how this affects the game industry as a whole. One dev saying they reckon they’re selling more because of gamepass doesn’t speak for the whole industry. I wonder if for every dev like that there’s another dev who doesn’t get offered a good deal by Microsoft, chooses not to go on gamepass and their game simply gets passed by (I have no evidence of this).
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It's not free demos though is it, it's the whole game. It's just it you choose to sample several games you can, and if you want to buy that game you can (at a discount) or you can just play it in full on the service while it's part of it.
I've honestly tried more genres and more games in general with game pass. Instead of feeling a bit pressured to pick 1-2 games at full price I can try a load of them and just see which ones grab me.
I've actually enjoyed gaming more because of game pass especially where indie games are concerned. You kinda know going in what Gears Tactics is going to be but I've played games like Abzu, Thomas Was Alone, Among Us, The Gardens Between, Donut County and my favourite Lonely Mountains Downhill... Games I would probably not have given a second look at otherwise. This in-between playing some bigger titles... Doom, Control etc...
I understand that everyone consumes games different. Not just digital versus physical but across genre and simply how they like to spend their time. So I don't think game pass is for everyone but for that reason I think MS was really smart because all the other methods of consuming these same titles still exist.
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I think it's because it's too hard to release a demo these days so instead they push out a beta where the code is still in preview. Outriders did do a demo earlier this month now I think of it.
I take your point though. I don't think I've seen really good self contained demos since the last generation.
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Originally posted by Brad View PostI'm just cynical. I feel like board members said "why are we letting people play bits of our game for free!? Can't we monetise that?"
Like I say, cynical.
I'm playing Outriders right now for instance and the final game is noticeably better than the demo. The demo only showed the first area and 6-7 levels of the character but that just happens to be the weakest part of the game.
I think the game preview thing is worse to be honest. I'm more cynical of that approach because usually there's a (cheap) entry fee, the game is usually rough and barebones plus you're essentially play testing it for them.
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Originally posted by nonny View PostCurrent rumour reported by ign is that Battlefield 6 may be going into game pass day one...
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Dunno mate. There was a rumour a big FPS title maybe going in so I think this is actually a possibility, particularly given battlefield 1 and 5 didn't do that great compared to the previous iterations.
I love the series so I'd be chuffed if this was true but now you've mentioned the trial stuff through EA play I guess there is a chance it's no quite the same thing.
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