Let's talk about subscription gaming

strumpusplunket · 30 Nov 2019 at 14:04

String said:
Exhaust one service and then cancel, move on to the other.

That WAS my plan! I had just got Game Pass month and planned to exhaust the games I was interested in in one big pre-Christmas binge once I finish work. 10 games installed so far. Most tried out and uninstalled again, a few completed. Now just Rage 2, Sunset Overdrive and Operencia to go. Maybe try out Stellaris to see if I want to pick it up in a Christmas sale.

BUT, now by the uninvited and malicious free gift of a month's Access form Origin I have more games to get through than I can manage! ********!

I mean, it's probably not healthy to repond to the Game Pass discounted period in the first place with the plan of fitting in the biggest gaming binge I can just for the sake of playing games I'm vaguely interested in.

It's like gorging yourself to the point of pain at a restaurant just because it's got a time-limited all-you-can-eat deal. Of course, I do that as well...

McPhee · 30 Nov 2019 at 19:50

I'm suffering from too many games and too little time

Currently subbed to Origin Access, Game Pass, and Humble Monthly. It's difficult to turn them down though. Access is £20/year. Game Pass set me back ~£60 for three years. And while Humble is a lot more expensive, I flog the games I don't want and wind up paying a pound or two per month for some good stuff (Kingdom Come, Squad, CoD:WWII, SCVI etc.).

I used to pay for Boomerang, but that's now gone out the window, and my PS4 barely gets a look in. It'll be on the MM soon, I think. If I'm paying full price for games, it's on the Switch.

Haggisman · 30 Nov 2019 at 20:38

String said:
I gave it a bash, and have mixed feelings. I enjoyed Gears 5 and would not have regretted paying around £30 for that. I tried Vampyr, Wasteland 2 & Rage 2 and these are all games that were on my Steam wishlist awaiting a sale. I didn't enjoy any of them, and it felt like no loss at all to try them out.

Unfortunately, I got a few hard freezes during my time with Gears 5. I've also had 2 BSODs while just surfing the Xbox app. Add to that, that the games get installed into a folder that I am denied access to and it's no way, not for me. Xbox for PC is utter trash and has been uninstalled.

I've been impressed with the subscription model, so will probably give Origin a try.

I got the game pass free 3 months with 5700xt, and while the game selection is good, I just haven't been able to get it working with steam streaming, which is a deal breaker for me, so I'll be enjoying my 5 months for £3 or whatever I paid, and cancelling it

Devrij · 1 Dec 2019 at 17:50

I have mixed feelings about subscription gaming. On the one hand, you can play games you wanted but never really would have paid for, but on the other hand when you don't have to commit anything you don't give games as much of a chance and they feel worthless. That's my experience anyway

MissChief · 1 Dec 2019 at 17:59

I paid £14.99 for the EA Origin Access Premier just to play Jedi Fallen Order. A game that is £40+ for the premium version. Which I got. And if I complete it within the month then I will cancel my sub. I’ve ‘saved’ £35.

eclap · 2 Dec 2019 at 15:29

MissChief said:
I paid £14.99 for the EA Origin Access Premier just to play Jedi Fallen Order. A game that is £40+ for the premium version. Which I got. And if I complete it within the month then I will cancel my sub. I’ve ‘saved’ £35.

yeah, many have done that. It's a pretty good service, honestly.

Thesman106 · 4 Dec 2019 at 17:15

Darujhistan said:
Correct, just like TV. Chop content up into as many little peices as possible and then keep reselling it to you over and over agan every month. They can get stuffed.

Any games with replay value like all my Paradox and TW titles and their assorted mods are all duplicated and stored away, so I'll never need to play online, download games, or try and find old mods from 10 years ago.

Damn, i cant even imagine the amount of drives to keep that sort of back going after quite a few years.

Thesman106 · 4 Dec 2019 at 17:28

String said:
Exhaust one service and then cancel, move on to the other.

But then you'll have a bunch of unuseable games on your pc. A husk from a brief time, exactly 1 month

Dirk Diggler · 4 Dec 2019 at 17:37

Thesman106 said:
But then you'll have a bunch of unuseable games on your pc. A husk from a brief time, exactly 1 month

You're allowed to uninstall them

Relentless81 · 13 Dec 2019 at 16:56

I've been given a month of Origin Basic where I have discovered and am very much enjoying Titanfall 2 multiplayer

Does anyone know, when this expires next week and I buy Titanfall 2 outright, will it remember all my settings and rank etc?

Thanks

Disco_P · 13 Dec 2019 at 17:49

I like the ~£5 monthly sub services for trying a game/games. Sign up, cancel immediately so I don't have to remember later on and make the most of the month.

Uplay's whatever is stupidly overpriced, especially considering all their games are the same nowadays. Far cry, far cry - city hackers, far cry - ancient parkour, far cry - boring microtransactions, far cry tucker carlson, far cry driving.

Gew · 13 Dec 2019 at 17:55

I loathe it, almost as much as I loathe in-game micro-purchases.
I'm an old-school:er, born several decades ago.

Poneros · 13 Dec 2019 at 19:02

I've only spent around $1500 over 10 years from what I see. Kinda hard for subs to compete with that, plus I keep all the games. Though tbh I kinda went overboard for 2-3 years just stocking up on games during sales. In reality I now spend even less a year. Heck, I look at my steam transactions now and for 2019 I only bought Hitman 2... which I did with wallet credit from flogging artifact cards early, so not even an expense (though I do regret the purchase, and got it for near retail too which I almost never do). And 2018? Around 60€ or so.

Nowadays if it's not coming to GOG I don't even care, unless it's truly exceptional, e.g. got Odyssey day 1 full price + season pass. Well worth it, but there's only one of those every 2-3 years, and it was definitely better to buy it outright rather than if they had the 15 a month sub.

Amatsubu · 13 Dec 2019 at 20:03

Subscription gaming can be pretty neat, I just subscribed to Game Pass for Windows as there's a deal atm, first month dirt cheap and I have some money left on the Store to cover for another two months if I feel like it. Wanted to play Gears 5 and Metro Exodus so it'll be way cheaper this way and I might even be able to complete Hellblade and Outer Worlds.

After that I'm out, pretty good deal.

Yrkoon · 13 Dec 2019 at 21:08

Amatsubu said:
Subscription gaming can be pretty neat, I just subscribed to Game Pass for Windows as there's a deal atm, first month dirt cheap and I have some money left on the Store to cover for another two months if I feel like it. Wanted to play Gears 5 and Metro Exodus so it'll be way cheaper this way and I might even be able to complete Hellblade and Outer Worlds.

After that I'm out, pretty good deal.

if their still doing it you can upgrade to ultimate for 1 quid and get another 3 months, just turn off auto renew as the ultimate renewl price is dumb, then when it runs out just resubcribe to the pc only one

iamdjdz · 13 Dec 2019 at 21:40

Just subscribed last night to gamepass 3 months for £1. Purely to play Forza horizon 4 and it's pretty good

if you compare the game time I've had already to a session on an arcade game for £1 then it's blown it out of the water. For me though I'm unlikely to resub at the end.

I may sub to origin access though as at £20 a year it's good value to me for Madden (albeit a year out of date) and mass effect games that I still have to play.

Amatsubu · 13 Dec 2019 at 21:42

Yrkoon said:
if their still doing it you can upgrade to ultimate for 1 quid and get another 3 months, just turn off auto renew as the ultimate renewl price is dumb, then when it runs out just resubcribe to the pc only one

Wow, they do, amazing deal but I can't use that as they require a credit card number, even on PayPal, since it seems it'll only let me go through the deal if I have enough funds on the store to cover a renewal at a normal price:/ I don't so they ask for a different payment method and I don't use credit or debit cards at all, I only have a bank account and PayPal linked to it.

Yrkoon · 13 Dec 2019 at 22:19

Amatsubu said:
Wow, they do, amazing deal but I can't use that as they require a credit card number, even on PayPal, since it seems it'll only let me go through the deal if I have enough funds on the store to cover a renewal at a normal price:/ I don't so they ask for a different payment method and I don't use credit or debit cards at all, I only have a bank account and PayPal linked to it.

thats wierd i used paypal to get it, only thing i done different was redeem a 3 month code i got with my gpu before doing it, covered up to june for 2 quid.

try posting in the gamepass thread theres guys there getting years out of it for cheap

oh turn of auto renewal before doing it u get another month for turning it on then u can turn it off lol

edit: i dont have a credit card.

Amatsubu · 13 Dec 2019 at 23:02

Yrkoon said:
thats wierd i used paypal to get it, only thing i done different was redeem a 3 month code i got with my gpu before doing it, covered up to june for 2 quid.

try posting in the gamepass thread theres guys there getting years out of it for cheap

oh turn of auto renewal before doing it u get another month for turning it on then u can turn it off lol

edit: i dont have a credit card.

Doesn't let me go through, when I select PayPal it asks for a credit card number to complete, as if it couldn't just take that quid from my Microsoft account and then let me top up later, I can cancel anytime anyways so they're not getting any guaranteed payment:/ I could do the standard GP deal without problems as I have enough on my MS account for a renewal.

EDIT: I think I know what's going on, I must gave enough on my PayPal as well so I'll just transfer some funds from my bank account and then get them back, I don't keep much there

Yrkoon · 13 Dec 2019 at 23:30

Amatsubu said:
Doesn't let me go through, when I select PayPal it asks for a credit card number to complete, as if it couldn't just take that quid from my Microsoft account and then let me top up later, I can cancel anytime anyways so they're not getting any guaranteed payment:/ I could do the standard GP deal without problems as I have enough on my MS account for a renewal.

dang that sucks go int he game pass thread just below this one theres people a lot more knowledgable than me there

edit: ahh did u get it sorted?