Like I said, I thought that $1 wouldn't be competitive enough for you. Maybe one day you'll try Gears 5, maybe.
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Analyst: Gears 5 is Game Pass' first "mega hit", leads to great number of Game Pass sign ups
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Like I said, I thought that $1 wouldn't be competitive enough for you. Maybe one day you'll try Gears 5, maybe.
Like i said, why do I need even a dirty cheap subscription if i got plenty of games to play and not enough time. But in general, $1 price is a very competitive one, no surprise GP got so many subscribers.
Does everybody do the Microsoft Rewards monthly for Game Pass? It's usually about 1000 points up for grabs.
You don't but you'll keep talking about dirt cheap subscriptions and competitive $1 deals in future Game Pass threads. Looking forward to read more.
Do you have a problem with that, because it seems like you do. As long as Microsoft will have those cheap deals, i will do talk about them, hope reading that doesn't hurt your feelings.
As someone who very recently got his first Xbox ever, I really like Game Pass. It's something that is sorely missing on Playstation. The value for money is really good, so much so that I might actually keep a MS console around in the next gen, even though I had no plans to do that previously.
Sony does have PSNow where you can download PS4 games as part of the subscription.
Not in my country it doesn't. Plus there's many big name first party games missing from that service, it's really not the same thing.
The real question is how many stay on when the 2 dollar or 1 dollar promos end. For me the price was right to check gears out and see what sea of thieves looked like but it's cancelled in October.
For me it's quite convenient, there is a lot of stuff on there I've wanted to play but haven't got round to. As someone with limited time to put into gaming, the library for the price is a no-brainer.
I don't see a point in staying on monthly. You get your fill on what you want and then come back when there's more games that interest you.
In the meantime if there's something you wanted to spend more time with, like Forza Horizon 4, you could always just pick it up for cheap.
As a huge Bing Rewards fanatic I really hope this comes to PC as well.
No other rewards program comes close.
As someone with limited time to put into gaming, the one free month I had of Gamepass a year ago was enough. I don't need to have a subscription to a hundred games I won't ever have time to play.
For PS4 games, yes. PS3 obviously not.
Wait, because of their lackluster streaming infrastructure, they also don't offer the PS4 games download from PSNow? That's not very smart from them.
The real question is how many do this only for 1 or 2 games and completely dismiss the fact that there are hundreds of games already to play for only a small fee per month compared to buying these games. We are talking mostly about casuals that will most likely compare gamepass to all the other subscription services thay pay or paid for in the past and are used to this model.
In the end, only time will tell how sustainable that is for MS and how convinced customers are about gamepass. Inferring anything from personal opinion or from a game centric forum will most likely not be the truth in the end.
I'm sure plenty will drop the sub after 1 or 2 months, while a lot of others will keep the sub around for some time. Especially with The Outer Worlds coming in October and who knows what they'll do in november/december. Last year december was great with the Winter of Arcade stuff. We got Ashen, Mutant Year Zero and Below in one month. On launch.
Stuff like this is why I cant take this forum seriously some times. Console warriors infect everything everywhere.
Your math is really weird. They have to add 1 game per month to make it worth $15? Gears 5 costs $60. That alone is worth the same as 4 months worth of Game Pass Ultimate sub fees vs buying it. In Oct The Outer Worlds is launching on Game Pass which is another $60 game. Those 2 games alone cover the cost of 1 year of regular Xbox Game Pass.
They add new games every month and you can't use the excuse that you've played all the games because they will adding games that haven't released yet over the next year.
So I should stay subscribed for 4 months because I played gears 5, finished the campaign in 3-4 days? Regardless of wether I play anything else with those 4 months.
Not interested in outer worlds. Not sure why you are missing the point. Why would I let my subscription renew when there aren't any games in the list I want to play? I'm not saying there aren't a lot of games, but I'm not interested in only having a big list of games I could play. Gotta be stuff I wanna play, and haven't already played. Looking at the list today, it's all stuff I've either already played or just not interested in. I'm not going to keep let my sub renew when there's nothing I want to play lol. If something comes out before my sub ends, great I'll renew if necessary. If not then I'll buy another month when there is something I want.
It's certainly worth buying a month to play an otherwise $60 game even if it's the only one I play that month. But it's not worth paying for a second month if I don't intend to play anything they have that month.
Nah, I don't. Not a huge fan of starting a bunch of games I might want to properly play in the future (or that I have no interest in) to pickup Achievements and the Rewards points. I do usually end up with 200-300 points per month just naturally playing the games I want to. But that's not enough to get anything worthwhile.
So...I got Live Gold, but after selecting the Upgrade for $2.00 and getting the message about upgrading your membership, Microsoft wants to charge me the full amount for every month after the 2 month promotion expires?
I thought the 2 bucks automatically upgraded my Live Gold membership to Ultimate full stop. Why on earth would they expect me to pay for two subscriptions?
Am I missing something here?
You can't have both Gold and Ultimate active at once, they will charge you only for Ultimate when the time comes.So...I got Live Gold, but after selecting the Upgrade for $2.00 and getting the message about upgrading your membership, Microsoft wants to charge me the full amount for every month after the 2 month promotion expires?
I thought the 2 bucks automatically upgraded my Live Gold membership to Ultimate full stop. Why on earth would they expect me to pay for two subscriptions?
Am I missing something here?
It's still early, Microsoft knows what they're doing largely due to the success of Xbox Live, Xbox Live Gold etc. it's hard for me to imagine that every AAA game M$ has will be on Gamepass Day 1, it would be a dream come true.
Yes, it's better paying $15 instead of $60, that's 1st grader logic. It's not like people don't sign up to Netflix to watch one show then cancel and renew again in the future. No one is disputing that.
That's not what you said though, you said it's not worth $15 a month unless they put out a game every month that's worth playing. That's completely false. Even if you were forced to pay for 3 months at $45 it would still be a better deal than paying $60 for the game you wanted to play. No one is saying you have to stay signed up for 4 months, I'm just pointing out your logic and math are wrong.
There are obviously people who sign up to services like this and then cancel and resub etc but that's not the norm. For $10 or $15 a month it's easier to just leave it active all the time because the cost is negligible. I personally don't bother to pinch pennies like that because as I said I know over the course of the year I'll save on the cost of games overall. Or do what a lot of people did and get 3 years of Xbox Live and covert it to Ultimate for $1/2. I'm subbed until 2022 and it cost me just over $100.
Every MS game is coming to Game Pass day 1, AAA or otherwise. Also, M$? People still do that shit?
So...I got Live Gold, but after selecting the Upgrade for $2.00 and getting the message about upgrading your membership, Microsoft wants to charge me the full amount for every month after the 2 month promotion expires?
I thought the 2 bucks automatically upgraded my Live Gold membership to Ultimate full stop. Why on earth would they expect me to pay for two subscriptions?
Am I missing something here?
The "2 month promotion" starts after the period your Gold would end. So if you have 3 years of Live Gold, then your first $16.99 month will be 3 years and 2 months from now. It converts whatever Gold time you have 1:1 into Gamepass Ultimate before then.
You don't need to imagine it. It's already confirmed thanks to all that M$$$$$
Wow... the positive Gears and Gamepass talk must hurt. I thought you cried enough when Era decided to merge next gen talk into one thread, now you're taking the tears in here.
SoT is still hugely popular, the expiration of those free 1 month trial card didn't slow it down 1 year later, the temp signups excuse is a tired and false one.
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Probably a lot considering how much quality content is added every month.
I signed up for gamepass to play it, but I want to finish Witcher 3 first and then Link's Awakening when it drops, and then Gears 5, hope my pc is able to play it though.
You can convert both into an Ultimate subscription. If you have Gold until November (2 months) and regular Game Pass until December (3 months) then those will be combined into Game Pass Ultimate sub for the next 5 months so you'll have Gold and Game Pass until February. Sounds like a good plan to me. I believe 36 months is the max you can combine them into. Might be a good idea to buy Gold so you reach that limit if you plan to stay subbed too because it will only combine once. You can't add 12 months of Ultimate by buying 12 months of Gold after you have made the switch, only before.
Microsoft has a pretty extensive FAQ for Game Pass Ultimate:
Dan, as usual, is absolutely right. The traditional sales #s will be deceiving, the game has moved subscriptions like nothing else has. The question is will these new subscribers stay subscribers, but MS has given them a ton of reasons to do so.
GP is a great service, and easily the best positioned to becomes the Netflix for games.
GP is a great service, and easily the best positioned to becomes the Netflix for games.
wow, such a dumb statement, some people act like they got insulted when you say that $1 deals played a very important role in gaining a lot of new subscribers...
Only in certain areas. It's not available to Australian gamers for example.