Nope. You're just paying a fee to rent games you aren't playing. If you take months to finish a big game, you may as well have bought it in most cases, especially as gamepass is 99% last gen stuff.
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Nope. You're just paying a fee to rent games you aren't playing. If you take months to finish a big game, you may as well have bought it in most cases, especially as gamepass is 99% last gen stuff.
If he/she paying for gold anyway, game pass only costs an extra £1 or £9 for 3 years (using method on this forum)
99% last gen? Ok right.
Isn't Halo Infinite the only current gen game on it? Don't recall playing any others out of the hundreds of games but please point me to them if my figure is unrealistic.
Valid point on the sub thingy, I was looking at it from a current non sub angle. Also forgot that you can sub month by month which is handy if there's a particular game you want to play that you know you'll finish in that month and costs more to buy.
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I think that’s Xbox one game as well.
kinda hard to say when Microsoft makes everything play on both platforms
I would not say everything on game pass is old? To me that’s games over 1 year old, they just added Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy?
every new Microsoft game is released on game pass
they also have 3rd party deal e.g outriders, stalker 2, the show 22, back4blood etc to name a few off top of my head
I can see that not worth extra £9 over 3 years
kinda hard to say when Microsoft makes everything play on both platforms
I would not say everything on game pass is old? To me that’s games over 1 year old, they just added Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy?
every new Microsoft game is released on game pass
they also have 3rd party deal e.g outriders, stalker 2, the show 22, back4blood etc to name a few off top of my head
I can see that not worth extra £9 over 3 years
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Yeah I wasn't meaning all the games are old as a negative, more to add context as to how some games are really cheap now because of how fast they drop in value after a few months.
The value is absolutely there, not questioning that, I'm referring to bakes' situation who only plays 2-3h a week, don't think it's so clear cut in that case.
Personally looking forward to Starfield and Stalker 2.
The value is absolutely there, not questioning that, I'm referring to bakes' situation who only plays 2-3h a week, don't think it's so clear cut in that case.
Personally looking forward to Starfield and Stalker 2.
I wouldn't pay for Ultimate at it's 'intended' price. But right now for £1 or £10 to upgrade from Gold it's a complete no brainer. I would be buying gold anyway.
I'm a casual gamer. I have no interest in 99% of the game on gamepass but I still got the 3 year sub because it was a quid. So far on gamepass I've played:
Monster Train for a few days
Back4Blood for the couple of hours it took me to realise it was turd and I'd rather be playing L4D.
Gears Tactics with I didn't finish because it buggy drivel.
I'd already bought Gears 5 for £17. So no Ultimate has no value for me but the original point was it worth it for a casual gamer, of course for £1. For £10 a month definitely not.
I'm a casual gamer. I have no interest in 99% of the game on gamepass but I still got the 3 year sub because it was a quid. So far on gamepass I've played:
Monster Train for a few days
Back4Blood for the couple of hours it took me to realise it was turd and I'd rather be playing L4D.
Gears Tactics with I didn't finish because it buggy drivel.
I'd already bought Gears 5 for £17. So no Ultimate has no value for me but the original point was it worth it for a casual gamer, of course for £1. For £10 a month definitely not.
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Same as me, don’t play enough to make it worth it unless I can get it cheap or do the gold conversion.
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It's that time of year when summer is close and I've been gaming in the evening all winter. Not much keeping me interested at the moment on gamepass so not been gaming much at all this week just the odd blast on Forza
Anything interesting coming soon?
Anything interesting coming soon?
I think Game Pass is still good value even if you're time limited, providing you buy Gold and do the upgrade for £1, £10 or whatever.
One game a year covers the cost of Gold and the upgrade, I've played some great games such as Halo, Forza, Hades, Subnautica, Tetris, Jedi Fallen Order, Flight Sim and more.
It's a nice way to be able to try games you wouldn't ordinarily play, I'd probably never have bought Hades but was getting so much hype I had to try it and loved it.
One game a year covers the cost of Gold and the upgrade, I've played some great games such as Halo, Forza, Hades, Subnautica, Tetris, Jedi Fallen Order, Flight Sim and more.
It's a nice way to be able to try games you wouldn't ordinarily play, I'd probably never have bought Hades but was getting so much hype I had to try it and loved it.
Really excited for Guardians of the Galaxy on the 10th, got lot of positive reviews.
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Ah yeah I forgot about that, I'll give it a go but not usually a fan of super hero stuff
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Gamepass Ultimate is great value, especially if you're a PC gamer too, and can therefore benefit from both the console AND PC libraries, which do vary a bit.
I got a free trial for 3 months, and it was enough to convince me that the service, whilst not perfect in execution, is worth supporting as the closest thing yet we've gotten to a Netflix for games.
The Xbox Live Gold -> Ultimate upgrade route also made it almost rediculously affordable; using codes I paid about £117 for 3 years worth of XBL Gold, and then paid £1 to upgrade the entire lot to Gamepass Ultimate; it was actually cheaper for me to do this for both me and the wife; than it was for me to use codes for "Gamepass for PC" by itself for my wife.
So far I've played a load of Mechwarrior 5 on PC, literally worked my way through the single player campaigns of ALL the recent Battlefields except 2042, a decent bit of Battletech, a while of Back4Blood (although as above, I soon realised it wasn't fully cooked) along with dabbled on a number of other titles, and will likely do Crysis 1-3 soon too. The wife has also played Forza and a number of other games. I am also fully looking forward to doing a complete Halo 1-5 (inc Reach/ODST) Coop play through with the wife; and have also downloaded a few other games to the PC and to the Xbox. If we'd bought them all, we'd probably have ALREADY paid back what we both paid for 3 years of access, within just a few months, and that's excluding the fact we've both downloaded Total Warhammer 3 on PC to play with friends, that alone would have cost us both around £35-50 each right now. That level of value access cannot be denied, plus other games coming like the new Two Point University etc.
It is an ideal service, maybe not for games you will want to play LONG term, in which case an actual purchase is justifiable, but for the sort of games you will either dabble in and out of with no commitment, OR for games you will play through once and then never again (anyone with a substantial library; you will know this is actually a LOT of titles).
Yes, occasionally its frustrating that games I've already purchased land on the service; or that games that I could be playing can leave the service (which is a real shame as I missed a few I'd have played) but frankly that is a small price to pay for a service that genuinely has a LOT of content on, and that is slowly fixing the PC/download bugs that have plagued it. For years I turned my nose up at 'another subscription', but now that its had time to establish and build the library and maturity on both PC and XBOX, the value is genuinely compelling, especially for what worked out to around £3.50 a month...
I got a free trial for 3 months, and it was enough to convince me that the service, whilst not perfect in execution, is worth supporting as the closest thing yet we've gotten to a Netflix for games.
The Xbox Live Gold -> Ultimate upgrade route also made it almost rediculously affordable; using codes I paid about £117 for 3 years worth of XBL Gold, and then paid £1 to upgrade the entire lot to Gamepass Ultimate; it was actually cheaper for me to do this for both me and the wife; than it was for me to use codes for "Gamepass for PC" by itself for my wife.
So far I've played a load of Mechwarrior 5 on PC, literally worked my way through the single player campaigns of ALL the recent Battlefields except 2042, a decent bit of Battletech, a while of Back4Blood (although as above, I soon realised it wasn't fully cooked) along with dabbled on a number of other titles, and will likely do Crysis 1-3 soon too. The wife has also played Forza and a number of other games. I am also fully looking forward to doing a complete Halo 1-5 (inc Reach/ODST) Coop play through with the wife; and have also downloaded a few other games to the PC and to the Xbox. If we'd bought them all, we'd probably have ALREADY paid back what we both paid for 3 years of access, within just a few months, and that's excluding the fact we've both downloaded Total Warhammer 3 on PC to play with friends, that alone would have cost us both around £35-50 each right now. That level of value access cannot be denied, plus other games coming like the new Two Point University etc.
It is an ideal service, maybe not for games you will want to play LONG term, in which case an actual purchase is justifiable, but for the sort of games you will either dabble in and out of with no commitment, OR for games you will play through once and then never again (anyone with a substantial library; you will know this is actually a LOT of titles).
Yes, occasionally its frustrating that games I've already purchased land on the service; or that games that I could be playing can leave the service (which is a real shame as I missed a few I'd have played) but frankly that is a small price to pay for a service that genuinely has a LOT of content on, and that is slowly fixing the PC/download bugs that have plagued it. For years I turned my nose up at 'another subscription', but now that its had time to establish and build the library and maturity on both PC and XBOX, the value is genuinely compelling, especially for what worked out to around £3.50 a month...
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Haven’t touched my X since finishing Halo. Too many great PS5 titles to work through at the moment. Should get those finished before the next big MS titles drop.
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Yeah, I know the feeling CaptainRave; I have a Switch, PS5, Xbox Series X and PC. Genuinely not enough time to play all the games I'd like to!!
I am actually trying to (finally) finish off my WiiU library so I am not too far behind on average (only a few years back I finished my then PS3 library!)
I am actually trying to (finally) finish off my WiiU library so I am not too far behind on average (only a few years back I finished my then PS3 library!)
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This is why I only bother owning 1 console now days, don't get loads of game time, but enjoying CP2077 since next gen update, and have MSFS 2020 which I play on and off and have Elden Ring still to play.
When I owned both ps4 and xbox 1, either would gather dust for long periods and I hated that fact.
My Series S is only switched on for 5 minutes each day to fulfil the Rewards quests. It's a bit nuts as I seem to play all the Game Pass titles through the Cloud now. I would sell it but I doubt I'd get much for it.