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[MosquitoSmasher]

But man...if i had not been buying a shitload of games ever since launch and had no sharing buddy, this would have been a sick deal. 120 bucks for a year and you get a boatload of games each month.

Or say you just go for a month and like a certain game, getting 20% off for that game is a great offer. Should be interesting to see how soon certain relatively new titles are added.

 

[Bits N Pieces]

The fact that this wasn't held back for an E3 announcement is a pretty positive thing, right?

This could have been huge to reveal on stage, instead its just a post on Xbox Wire.

Dat Xbox confidence, lol.

 

[Theorry]

Because people attention will be at maximum capacity in this E3 with Scorpio... announcing Scorpio + Xbox game pass + reveal new AAA exclusive that isn't Halo/Gears or Forza would have been huge.

Who cares really. Not everything has to wait until its E3 time and they want to test it now. Abit of a non discussion really.

What about the new games, not a fucking peep

Not sure what that has to do with my comment really.

 

[fast_taker]

this is huge indeed.
I just hope they expand the service on PC.

 

[Strootman]

Holy shit. I will sign up for sure.

 

[Hesemonni]

W: list of the games

 

[InsaneTiger]

This is similar to what Sony used to do when PS Plus first was announced. They should go back to that with the ability to buy titles at discounted rates. Good on MS, hopefully this will cause Sony to respond.

 

[Z O N E]

Pretty sure you'll get to keep the games in your library, but just won't have access to them once they're removed from the Game Pass library.

When trying to start a pre-loaded game, it says "Starting soon" or something along those lines, I'm pretty sure they'll add something to tell you that you don't own it or something?

Pretty amazing service, I'll probably dip in for a few months, see how it goes. Amazing news that it's not streaming, even though I have no problem with streaming, I do understand that not everyone has a great connection, so that's great news.

 

[Andodalf]

How is this thread still open?

 

[jjonez18]

yupp:

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/xbox-game-pass

Jesus. Xbox is gonna rake in some serious DD money this year.

 

[Dr. Kitty Muffins]

I'll bet this forces Sony to react at E3 with their own service.

 

[Hoo-doo]

So if you're ass-deep in some 60-hour RPG and the game cycles out of the library, can you still keep playing without purchasing the game outright?

 

[Blam]

I really wonder what this also available on windows means?

 

[7DollarHagane]

So if you're ass-deep in some 60-hour RPG and the game cycles out of the library, can you still keep playing without purchasing the game outright?

No.

Notice before purchase of DLC: If you purchase DLC for a game that is later removed from Xbox Game Pass, or you terminate your Xbox Game Pass subscription, you will need to purchase the game separately to continue using the DLC.

 

[thekiddfran]

Dat Sony purchase of Gaikai is looking more irrelevant every day

 

[mrklaw]

Damn, as an Xbox One Owner, I'm SO HAPPY that Sony is dominating this gen. Seriously. First BC, then 4K Blu Ray and now this... this is amazing!



how is this negative for the gamer? my backlog is so HUGE, I can wait. Can we stop the spinning please and just let microsoft have this, please?!

I didn't say it was a negative for the gamer. I meant for the publishers (but wasn't specific so that's on me)

 

[ZeoVGM]

400-post thread already at the top of Gaming.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1348425

 

[Peroroncino]

Instead of giving us new games, they give us new options (BC, EAA, GWG, now this) to play old games... But it seems consumer friendly enough so there's that I guess.

 

[Banderdash]

I wonder if the discounts stack...

Like, if I'm an EA access member and I buy an EA game that's part of the pass...

Do I get the EA Access discount on top of the 20 Game Pass discount?

 

[digoutyoursoul]

The fact that this wasn't held back for an E3 announcement is a pretty positive thing, right?

This could have been huge to reveal on stage, instead its just a post on Xbox Wire.

Dat Xbox confidence, lol.

It's a conference that's going to great no matter what to some people and you know it. Fuck I'm a pessimistic cunt these days ha ha.

 

[JetBlackPanda]

Jesus. Xbox is gonna rake in some serious DD money this year.

I mean it's only for games in the library and these games seem older? They go on sale ALL the time. Better then 20% too.

 

[TS-08]

No.

That just says DLC.

 

[odhiex]

Great idea Microsoft, but it is still a little bit too pricey for me (yeah, call me cheap bastard)

 

[Fliesen]

Great concept, Sony really needs to step up their game.

The only issue would be certain publishers not being on board with this, withholding their game from the Game Pass catalog.
These kinds of subscriptions do add up, though. I'd love for Sony to react to this by adding something, that is maybe not quite as extensive, but part of their base PS+ subscription.

 

[JaggedSac]

And alpha testers will be able to test for free?

OMG, I love this company.

Wait what? Where does it say that?

 

[-MD-]

400-post thread already at the top of Gaming.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1348425

They were posted at the same time.

 

[Tigress]

I'll bet this forces Sony to react at E3 with their own service.

I hope so but I doubt it. Sony has pretty much not really been caring what ms does and been doing their own thing. Too bad cause ms has done some good stuff for their customers.

 

[Conrad Link]

Just signed up for the Alpha, only about 5 Xbox One games the rest are 360 ones.

Seem to be mostly games that we've been given free through GWG so far in the test. A few other ones though.

 

[Outrun]

Soul Calibur 2 is coming?

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

I'll bet this forces Sony to react at E3 with their own service.

I really fucking hope not. This is going to destroy gaming as we know it.

 

[Primethius]

I'll bet this forces Sony to react at E3 with their own service.

I bet it doesn't.

 

[Sectorseven]

This is on top of needing Xbox Live?

 

[K' Dash]

This and Scorpio at the end of the year.

Maybe I'll Jump In.

 

[Tecnniqe]

 

[LukasTaves]

Bold prediction:

They will be sunseting Xbox Live gold in favor of this sub.

I've saying for a while now, they would change towards a sub that makes sense for Pc users to subscribe too, and they would never sub for playing online.

This makes total sense in their universal platform push.

 

[newbong95]

it also mentions win 10 ? xbox bc games on pc ?

 

[sems4arsenal]

I'll bet this forces Sony to react at E3 with their own service.

Hope so, this is why competition is needed. Everybody wins

 

[Bojanglez]

I think Sony may be thinking of reacting to this. I got asked to complete a customer satisfaction survey this week and the main focus was around how they could improve PSNow and PS Plus.

I think it mentioned bringing PS1 and PS2 classics to PS Now.

 

[brokenbeans]

I'll bet this forces Sony to react at E3 with their own service.

It's called PlayStation NOW.

 

[Bl4ckSunsh1n3]

Hopefully this drives down the price of PS Now. I'd like to use it, but it's way too expensive.

 

[chadskin]

I wonder if the discounts stack...

Like, if I'm an EA access member and I buy an EA game that's part of the pass...

Do I get the EA Access discount on top of the 20 Game Pass discount?

EA doesn't participate in this. Neither does Ubisoft and a few others.

 

[spekkeh]

Great idea, but a lot rests on the games. Netflix makes a lot of original content to make it worthwhile, can't see MS doing the same.

 

[Space_nut]

It gun be good to Xbox

 

[7DollarHagane]

That just says DLC.

You think you'll be able to play the game but not the map pack you bought unless you buy the game? That makes even less sense.

 

[Floody]

What? Microsoft's answer to PS+ was Games with Gold, which is basically the same thing but you get to keep the Xbox 360 games for forever. This is more comparable to PSNow.



Most definitely! That was pretty much my point to a T. Making it so games are downloads and not streamed is a godsend, and so is providing a discount on actually buying a game if you want it. I'd love if this was how they handled demos of first party games going forward. I've wanted a discount on new digital games for quite some time now.

I don't think this is a answer to anything, just MS seeing a market and making a move. My point was Sony don't need to make a move as they already have comparable services.

 

[JetBlackPanda]

I wonder if the discounts stack...

Like, if I'm an EA access member and I buy an EA game that's part of the pass...

Do I get the EA Access discount on top of the 20 Game Pass discount?

EA wasn't included in the list of publishers was it?

 

[Mihos]

So far, this sounds awesome. Need more details of course, but I may hook plug the xbone back up if it works out.

 

[TS-08]

You think you'll be able to play the game but not the map pack you bought unless you buy the game? That makes even less sense.

I'm just explaining the words you quoted to you. I'm not trying to divine unstated intent.

 

[Don Draper's Hat]

I wonder how this will affect Games With Gold?

 

[ekim]

it also mentions win 10 ? xbox bc games on pc ?

I guess only Play Anywhere games will be part of it. Maybe some older titles will be migrated to be also on the Win10 store.