It’s been stated that Microsoft pays an up front price for games to be on the service for a specific period of time. There’s no revenue share going on (at least as publicly stated), although I imagine the ea play deal is probably rev share.
Alistair
1725
I wonder if Ubigames would ever show up. Hard to imagine, but if it worked for EA somehow…
I can see how Gamepass is going to start changing my buying behavior significantly. I’m intrigued by Rebel Galaxy Outlaw… but what I really want to know is - Is it going to be on Gamepass? And I’m willing to hold off or even forgo a purchase to see how how that shakes out.
EA Play is $5/mo for back catalog titles. EA can offer last year’s sports games and some PopCap games and have a pretty good library.
Ubi’s offering is a $15/mo subscription for all their games. I don’t think Ubisoft has the catalog titles to sustain a cheaper offering.
Timex
1728
There are rumors that Vahala is supposedly going to be on gamepass, which is a huge add.
https://realsport101.com/assassins-creed/assassins-creed-valhalla-xbox-game-pass-next-gen-title-leaked-on-subscription-service/
What I didn’t realize before was that all the first party titles are going to be on gamepass… so all the games from bethesda and its baby companies. I had just assumed that they’d be exclusive titles, but I didn’t realize that they’d be essentially free on XBox if you have a gamepass.
So you’d have games like Deathloop that will be timed exclusives on PS5… but then come to XBox and you get it for free. Not to mention the ES and Fallout games. That’s nuts.
I’m probably the only one in the world who failed to grasp the full magnitude of that purchase.
For this one, I kind of doubt it. The original Rebel Galaxy has never, not once, been on sale on the Xbox store- if it had, I’d probably have bought it for my brother. Yet it was given away on PS+ shortly after release. Travis seems to have no relationship with MS, for whatever reason.
As for Paradox Games, AoW:P was there on release day, too. Stellaris didn’t come until a few months after console release.
Alistair
1730
Reckon so :) “Free” apart from the subscription cost.
The Valhalla rumour has been clarified to refer to Series X optimised titles rather than Gamepass titles. I’m quite pleased about that. I don’t think I want MS to own the whole damn world.
I did mention it here, which was originally in this thread:
The thing to remember is you get the Xbox and PC versions. Admittedly the PC version is via the Microsoft store, but it’s still available. And Microsoft has slowly been getting their mod story together so the future seem pretty good!
lordkosc
1732
Ooooh I would be VERY pleased for Valhalla to be on there.
Looks like the Twitter detectives are out in force - Xbox sent out a teaser tweet today, and hid a clue in white text at the bottom, ‘The Slayer is coming’. Since the 2016 Doom has already been on Game Pass, looks like Doom Eternal may show up soon.
The collective wailing and gnashing of teeth would almost make that worthwhile.
Haha I’ve gone back and forth about buying Doom Eternal forever. Procrastination ftw.
Likewise. Gamepass is perfect for stuff I’d like to play but have no interest in replaying ever, or stuff I’m sort of interested in if the price isn’t much and Doom Eternal pretty much fits both those bills.
Alistair
1738
This XBox stuff is too damn confusing. Does Ultimate get you access to both the XBox and PC versions of a game?
If it’s Play Anywhere. Ha! See what I did there?
If the game is in both the Xbox Game Pass for Xbox and Xbox Game Pass for PC libraries. Some games are only on one or the other.
geewhiz
1742
So does Steam go from selling to renting too?
A Steam Pass?
