If you don’t subscribe forever you still have your game.
I assume they get paid whatever their normal sale percentage is if you buy through Microsoft. Other than that, the benefit to you is to keep it forever when it leaves Game Pass or you stop the sub.
You can probably make sure to never buy a Microsoft-associated game, though, unless you’re planned to cancel. I don’t think those ever leave.
Many games leave Game Pass after a year or so too.
Thraeg
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Sure, though odds are that the sale price a year from now will be lower than it is right now, even with the subscriber discount.
That is certainly true, their prices aren’t great.
One nice side-effect of the thing is that gets a lot of games on the Windows Store, with Xbox Achievements. So even after they leave game pass, there’s PC versions of games out there that I can earn xbox achievements on. Which is very cool.
rei
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The downside is you have to deal with MS Store’s shitty install/patch/update/download system and the UWP version of the games’ obfuscated file systems missing features from non-MS Store versions like benchmarks or mod support.
Very true. It’s a shame. I don’t usually care that much about mod support, as I always try to experience games as the creators originally intended, and I find that after doing that, I seldom if ever go back to them anyway. But it is a shame that developers give it less support in terms of bugs and patches.
Guess the only downside to playing on Game Pass, then, is the game leaving when I’m not yet finished it. But, if it’s a good enough game, I can pick it up elsewhere. Only problem with that scenario is that saves aren’t likely to be transferable to other services (Steam, GOG, etc). I think that’s the case, anyway. Anyone heard different?
Very likely you won’t be able to transfer the save, and as I’ve warned a bunch GamePass deletes local saves when you uninstall the game and not all games support Xbox cloud saves. So that’s something to consider for some games too if you think you might revisit it much later.
I was able to transfer my Football Manager saves as they were stored in the ‘My Documents’ folder, it’s the only game I’ve tried it with though. I’d imagine saves put in the install location would be a pain in the ass to get.
vyshka
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The odd thing I’ve seen with gamepass is that uninstalling something doesn’t seem to actually remove it at that moment. I uninstalled Forza Horizon 4 and the disk wasn’t showing the space reclaimed. Looking around online I found out I should run the disk cleanup app to get the space back right away, and apparently they leave things there to speed up downloading again if you want it. I’m not sure how/when they determine to reclaim the space if you need it.
I wonder if/when Gamepass comes to Steam that will we get cloud save so our progress isn’t lost if the game leaves Gamepass.
vyshka
3321
It is giving me the option to install Forza Horizon 4 again, so hopefully things are working.
rei
3322
It took 2x space for Halo MCC for me recently, not acknowledging/deleting an install on one drive but allowing redownload on another.
While I believe every game on an actual Xbox console must support cloud saves I understand that Microsoft has left supporting cloud saves on PC Game Pass (Or the Windows store) up to the developers/publishers. I think that was part of opening up the MS store with friendlier terms for devs. I sort of wish MS required it, but I could see how that might run contrary to the changes they are trying to make with the store.
One can always check the ‘Capabilities’ section of a game in the Game Pass app for Cloud Save support for any game that you are concerned about. Such as if you need to uninstall it for space or other reasons.
One other reason to purchase a game on GamePass… if you’ve bought DLC for it.
The free Raccoon City PD map is great.
The three characters are together in a 10$ DLC.
Claire & Chris skins are an extra 13$ each after that.
Jill and Leon aren’t too special.
Leon can drop a flashbang. Stuns and blinds the killer for a couple seconds.
Nemesis can attack over pallets, and gets a long range tentacle whip as the match progresses. He can be fun to fight against. It spawns helper zombies with him. Most aren’t a threat, but I’ve also seen them win the matches. They sometimes camp in front of lockers, generators and hooks.
Logging in this week gets you 9,000 shards and 500,000 bloodpoints.
The game is on xCloud to get that on Xbox easily. PC doesn’t have cross-progress.
Shrine of secrets has some great perks for the next 16 hours:
- Detective’s Hunch (from the Saw DLC)
- Hex Ruin (buy on pc, console gets Hag DLC for free)
- Hex Undying (from the Blight DLC)
Those are 1,500 shards each, or you can spend them to get a DLC killer for free.
Incredible. The new version of the Xbox App is finally able to list all games on GP without having to endlessly scroll down and up, down and up.
I am amazed.
