PC Game Pass (was Xbox Game Pass for PC)

H3RBSKI · 9 Jun 2019 at 22:53

having trouble getting the xbox app from the store, just keeps saying there was an error and to refresh the page but just wont load

anyone else had this?

H3RBSKI · 9 Jun 2019 at 22:58

never mind sorted it now, had to add it to my cart on the microsoft site for some reason before it would show up

ic1male · 9 Jun 2019 at 22:59

H3RBSKI said:
having trouble getting the xbox app from the store, just keeps saying there was an error and to refresh the page but just wont load anyone else had this?

Are you on Windows 10 version 18362.145? It seems to be causing lots of problems by people not having the May update.

haszek · 9 Jun 2019 at 23:10

How do they make money? Game creators, if their game is there on a service that costs £8? Instead of paying full price £40-50. Majority games you'll finish within a month and not come back anyway.

H3RBSKI · 9 Jun 2019 at 23:13

haszek said:
How do they make money? Game creators, if their game is there on a service that costs £8? Instead of paying full price £40-50. Majority games you'll finish within a month and not come back anyway.

my guess would be MS pay them a decent sum to have the game on there to make people want the service. guessing they pay more for the newer/bigger games and less for old ones? either way the devs are happy and MS make their money back easily

Dano · 9 Jun 2019 at 23:13

What's to stop people subbing for a month when something they want comes out and then cancelling once finished, seems like a nice cheap rental service to me.

Tombstone · 9 Jun 2019 at 23:17

Dano said:
What's to stop people subbing for a month when something they want comes out and then cancelling once finished, seems like a nice cheap rental service to me.

Nothing I guess, just noticed that Void ******** is on there too, a game which Ive had my eye on, Im more than happy to pay £1 to play that for a month.

H3RBSKI · 9 Jun 2019 at 23:20

yeah im on the latest update, im now having the same issue as somebody earlier. where its saying it cant install it where i want even though its selected as the destination. trying to figure out how to sort it out

Edit: sorted now and finally got games downloading

annoyingly i only paid for a year of origin access yesterday

lol

Name · 9 Jun 2019 at 23:46

For £1 I’m in. Might even follow for another month as £3.99 is great value to finish off some other game.

ic1male · 9 Jun 2019 at 23:51

H3RBSKI said:
Edit: sorted now and finally got games downloading annoyingly i only paid for a year of origin access yesterday lol

Should still come in useful, you won't get EA games on Game Pass. Nor Ubisoft. I expect they'll be announcing their own pass tomorrow night.

XeNoNF50 · 10 Jun 2019 at 00:09

Dano said:
What's to stop people subbing for a month when something they want comes out and then cancelling once finished, seems like a nice cheap rental service to me.

Absolutely nothing

ic1male · 10 Jun 2019 at 00:11

Dano said:
What's to stop people subbing for a month when something they want comes out and then cancelling once finished, seems like a nice cheap rental service to me.

It is. I played Gears 4 and Crackdown 3 for £1.

Tombstone · 10 Jun 2019 at 00:54

AWPC said:
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-06-09-the-outer-worlds-get-october-release-date
The Outer Worlds is also a launch title on PC gamepass so you get this as well in October as soon as it launches. Shame the actual game looks less promising than it did now they have revealed a lot more gameplay though

Ooh , have you got a link to any? Outer Worlds is high on my list and I've not seen anything beyond that original trailer so wouldnt mind seeing some of the gameplay

EDIT : scratch that, found it

Tombstone · 10 Jun 2019 at 04:31

Kind of weird this windows store, cant seem to see any way to see just the games I "own" via this GamePass thing. I can see a huge list of games, with the ones in the gamepass showing as Owned underneath but interestingly some games dont appear on the list, for example Void ******** and Metro Exodus arent on the list, however if you search specifically for them, they can be found and shown as being owned. Most peculiar

Heisenberg · 10 Jun 2019 at 06:44

Tombstone said:
Kind of weird this windows store, cant seem to see any way to see just the games I "own" via this GamePass thing. I can see a huge list of games, with the ones in the gamepass showing as Owned underneath but interestingly some games dont appear on the list, for example Void ******** and Metro Exodus arent on the list, however if you search specifically for them, they can be found and shown as being owned. Most peculiar

Download the Xbox beta app from the store.

Mark1989 · 10 Jun 2019 at 06:50

I thought void ******** was Consol pass only or has to now moved onto pc pass

Ignore checked pc list again, didn't notice initially having had a proper look so much on that list I've been wanting to buy now no need too!

Andygully · 10 Jun 2019 at 07:46

I was playing forza on xbox on game pass a few months ago on my pc.
Good value for the games you get especially for the first month.

malachi · 10 Jun 2019 at 07:51

haszek said:
How do they make money? Game creators, if their game is there on a service that costs £8? Instead of paying full price £40-50. Majority games you'll finish within a month and not come back anyway.

Not our problem, if they wasn't making money from it then they wouldn't signed up to be on the service.

We are just here to play the games not worry about the business decisions

XeNoNF50 · 10 Jun 2019 at 08:56

malachi said:
Not our problem, if they wasn't making money from it then they wouldn't signed up to be on the service.

We are just here to play the games not worry about the business decisions

Going to guess MS pay a license fee to the content creators and then make their money back on subs. Simple enough model, works for TV and movies.

willhub · 10 Jun 2019 at 09:15

4 quid for all those games seems a great deal?