1704

No. None of the guides posted in this thread worked for me. There was no option to extend my subscription.

1705

I have about 8-9 months left and then will happily keep paying for the subscription (though will still take advantage of 3 months codes being cheaper than 1 month, for example). GamePass has been awesome value and has saved me so much money from not buying titles impulsively while still letting me play all kinds of games, that it’s totally worth the price of admission.

1706

fwiw it sounds like you can also buy https://www.cdkeys.com/ea-access-12-month-subscription and then it’ll convert to 4 months of Game Pass, so about $6/month.

1707

1708

I did the 1$ upgrade deal when it was first available until the end of 2021. With today’s news I’m going to see if there’s a way to cheaply extend it a few more years.

1709

I did 2+ years in the initial $1 XBL conversion. Then when my PS4 started dying, having that instant library was a big factor in deciding to switch over to an X1X for the living room. Then this summer, I extended it for another year using the 3 month/$25 deal because it’s been such a good value for me so far.

1710

I subbed until like April/May of next year. I’ll continue to get free months via the rewars so I figure it will be late next year before I’d need to consider if it is worth $10/month or not.

1711

I was already subbed to Ultimate for 36 months!

1712

I just got an email telling me that my $1 sub would be continued for $4.99 a month in October. Are we sure the $4.99 deal is gone for good? Maybe this email will be followed by another one telling me the price is $10/month?

1713

I just swapped to ultimate and canceled my humble monthly. Going to be going with the series x this time around

1714

What was your decision process?

1715

Going to be getting a series x

And I wanted to mess with the android xcloud game streaming

1716

I’m including this link from a CNBC interview with Phil Spencer here - it’s been linked in the Zenimax thread, and it mostly applies to that topic, but he also talks about getting xCloud on iOS and that they aren’t giving up on working something out with Apple. Which I’m glad to hear since that’s mostly what I use.

1717

According to my Game Pass app the two Destiny 2 expansions got added. Forsaken and Shadowkeep. On Console.

On PC Halo 3: ODST.

I also installed Company of Heroes 2 on the PC, just to see it, despite the poor reception for that game.

1718

I unsubbed. I’ll probably resub in future. I kinda liked it for experimental purposes but found it hard to justify continuing with it for now. It boils down to a few things.

  1. I’ve had bugs in the xbox app itself, such as a notification from some spammer that I just couldn’t clear at all until a couple of weeks ago.
  2. Given the releases due over the next few months I want to play (none of which AFAIK are coming to gamepass) I’m just not anticipating actually using it for awhile. Who knows, maybe they are? But I need better visibility of what I’m gonna get next month if I’m gonna keep paying.
  3. The games on offer I really wanted to play I already had, elsewhere
  4. The games on offer I merely wanted to try and ended up enjoying… Ended up being buggy to the extent I actually got annoyed with the whole thing. Now, I know gamepass isn’t to blame for this, exactly, but if it’s primarily a platform for games with poor QA then my tolerance for it will wax and wane depending on my mood (and how bored I am). Maybe it’s just shitty luck but of the 3 games I really took for a spin here (Metro Exodus, Wasteland 3, Dead Cells) all fucked up to some extent. Metro and Wasteland I bailed on after hitting bugs that wouldn’t let me proceed. Dead Cells had some shitty startup bug which meant I had to disconnect from the internet to play it. I ended up buying that on Steam (and actually kinda regretting it).
1719

Yeah, that was definitely my experience with Games Pass on the PC. Hey, that’s a really good game, there’s another one, there’s another one. Too bad I already bought these all for full price at Steam when they first came out.

It will be interesting to see what sort of delay there is going forward on between when a game releases and when non-Microsoft titles show up on Games Pass. In particular, Paradox seems to have quite a few of their games up there. Is this mostly a home for games that are 5 years old along with any new Microsoft first party games, or is Paradox and other publishers planning to put their new releases on it. I mean CK3 is on there which is really great and rather surprising.

They’ve got a rather impressive Strategy collection with the Paradox History games, Age of Wonders, the Endless Legends/Space games. I already owned all of them, but if we can expect games of this caliber to be constantly showing up on Games Pass when they release, then it’s a pretty good deal.

I did find a lot more games for Console that I hadn’t played and it was enough for me to go from Games Pass for PC (which I had mostly gotten to test fly MS Flight Simulator to see if I wanted to play it before it had VR) and switch to Games Pass Ultimate. I dusted off my OG XBox One (which has mostly been neglected in favor of PS4 and then PS4 Pro) to play Games Pass games and I ended up pre-ordering a Series X. So well played Microsoft.

1720

Well just lately we have had at least CK3 & Wasteland 3 show up on release day.

Planetfall too I think.

1721

I am very curious on the economics of this. Do game publishers get paid on the basis of how much their games are played on Game Pass, or is it just a lump fee based on how much Microsoft thinks their games might get played pre-seen before the game is released.

I mean I can see how this could be very lucrative for Microsoft, but not seeing a benefit to Paradox, unless Microsoft is giving them a pretty decent chunk. But at $15/month that’s going to start looking pretty small when it gets divided up by a dozen or more publishers and EA has got to be getting a couple dollars out of it for sure.

Or maybe Paradox views this as just bringing more people in, and then getting them to pay for the endless DLCs, plus anyone stuck in the Microsoft eco-system may end up paying more for DLC unless Microsoft has the equivalent of Steam’s quarterly fire sales.

1722

This is fairly easily rectified by adjusting your purchasing behaviour, particularly since the pattern of which games go on Game Pass when is relatively predictable, even beyond first party (if it’s Paradox, it’s coming quickly, for instance). I’ve definitely stopped buying as many mid-tier games at launch to see if they pop up on Game Pass, and they often do. Now it’s going to be even more predictable with EA Play - just don’t buy EA games at launch. And in the mean time, while you build up an anti-backlog, you can play the day-and-date games.

1723

I’d assume its the latter.