New Rumored Xbox Game Pass Tier Includes Only First Party Games

https://insider-gaming.com/rumored-xbox-game-pass-tier-first-party-games/

All hail enshitification!

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HeyJoe@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 149d

Sounds awful, thanks. I can't wait to laugh when I see the ridiculous amount they probably want per month.

CubitOom@infosec.pub · 19 pts · 149d

Microslop

Pika@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 149d

it would need to be so much cheaper to be worth it. Like current GP ultimate already is a scam and a half unless you were essentially buying a AAA title every 2 months, unless the price of this subscription is at least a quarter the price of ultimate it wouldn't be worth it imo.

SnowMeowXP@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 149d

I used to subscribe to this. During the 9.99 times. That was fun for a while.

scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 8 pts · 149d (5 replies)

Oh man I love when companies make stupid tonedeaf decisions like this.

Hey you know how we haven't made a great first party game in over a decade?

Yeah?

Well, what if to boost sales numbers we add a tier that ONLY gives you our lame first party games!

Because they refuse to see games as a creative artform. Or, they think they ate, but then do the worst corpo bs to them. This all reeks of some boardroom joining all their MBAs together to come up with this brilliant shit covered plan.

iamthetot@piefed.ca · 8 pts · 149d (4 replies)

Hey you know how we haven’t made a great first party game in over a decade?

I personally don't think anyone should pay for xbox game pass, but this is a bit of an exaggeration imho. Xbox Game Studios have published some great games in the past decade. Among them, in no particular order:

  • Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition
  • Age of Empires 4
  • Psychonauts 2
  • A couple of Forza games
  • Ori and the Blind Forest
  • Ori and the Will of the Wisps
  • Hellblade 2
  • Grounded
  • As Dusk Falls
MurrayL@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 149d

And that’s not even close to a full list, either. There’s also Flight Simulator, Sea of Thieves, Pentiment, and Hi-Fi Rush. Probably others I’m forgetting too.

There’s plenty to hate on MS for, and I’m not saying they haven’t squandered a lot of the talent they paid for, but to say they’ve released nothing great for over a decade is just ignorant.

Katana314@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 148d

Careful, putting out the message that they're amazing games could lead to the studios getting fired. Like what happened to Hi-Fi Rush.

Zagorath@quokk.au · 1 pts · 148d

Age of Mythology: Retold, and its 2 (soon to be 3) major expansions.

Kwiila@slrpnk.net · 0 pts · 149d

I know of Age of Empires; but the others I don't recognize, thought were Indie 500, or an actual Indie game.

NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com · 8 pts · 149d

All subscriptions inevitably turn to shit

ForgottenUsername@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 149d (1 reply)

Can happily say I've never held a xbox game pass and have slowly watched the service turn from abysmal to insulting.

Skv@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 146d

I only ever did first month for $1 to beat Halo Inf campaign and that was that.

TORFdot0@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 149d (4 replies)

I just want Xbox live without having to pay 120 a year. I could care less for any games

newthrowaway20@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 149d (3 replies)

Why pay anything to play online?

TORFdot0@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 149d

Because Xbox provides the only populated servers for the games I want to play. I’m not happy about it either

thingsiplay@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 148d (1 reply)

Only for non free to play games. This is standard across all consoles. Only on PC it online play does not cost extra.

Skv@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 146d

Not a decade some ago when XBL got integrated into M$ PC side of games....

devolution@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 146d

$10 a mo to play only 10 games. Amazing!