I did a little search for a Game Pass related thread and even though it came up empty I'm sure it's been discussed a lot here regardless. However I recently found a couple of 'new' problem with the service that I hadn't really thought of before so here I am with three whole posts under my belt coming steaming into here with a Game Pass hot take...
I used to hate the idea of it. It was a principle thing; I like owning my games on the basis I will go back and play old games all the time and rarely buy the latest and greatest games on launch.
However having found myself getting less principled and a having gained some perspective over the years as I age I relented and got the PC Game Pass service because buying one month was cheaper than the cost of the game that my friends wanted to play. In fact, I think it was £1 for a month or maybe for 3 months or something. And in doing so I realised that the service was actually pretty good as there were loads of backlog games on there that sounded good at review but I couldn't bring myself to buy - I'm looking at you Wolfenstein II, Dragon Age Andromeda, and The Saboteur (yes, it's been on my To Do list for literally 13 years).
So all was well. I got an Xbox Series S with my phone contract and it became a bit of Game Pass machine, and I found that I preferred gaming on my comfy sofa compared to hunched up on my desk having spent the entire day being hunched up on my desk working. Again, perhaps an age thing.
I used to hate the idea of cloud gaming. But then I tried xcloud on the xbox and it works quite well, in most situations, on my 100megabit connection (my xbox sees about 14MBps download speed). So much so that I swapped over my cable connection from my PC to my xbox and my PC makes do with some £15 USB wifi adapter.
So whilst I am sure people have talked about the principle of ownership before, what do I think the 'new' problems are?
Well I find that games have become incredibly disposable. I can try a game instantly and it has literally 10 minutes to hook me before I get bored knowing I can instantly try another game. I don't have the invested interest in giving it a fair shot like you do when you went into town to buy a game and read the manual on the bus ride home (I assume this was a universal experience, right?!). To be fair this is entirely on me and my terrible attention span.
I've also had the first time that a game I have been playing has been removed from the service. I bought GTA Definitive Edition, for my sins, on PC when it launched. I then switched to playing on the xbox through Game Pass but now it has been removed, after about 6 months, half-way through my playthrough and I'm tempted to buy it so I can complete it. I also saw that FF12/12-2 has been removed and that was probably 3rd on my to play list. I own Snow Runner on PC but downloaded the GP version on xbox and now I think I will go back to playing it on PC as there is a risk SR will get removed at some point This is perhaps unique to me as a PC gamer and xbox gamer but I am now hesitant to start a long game on Game Pass in case it gets removed.
Anyway hi everyone.
I used to hate the idea of it. It was a principle thing; I like owning my games on the basis I will go back and play old games all the time and rarely buy the latest and greatest games on launch.
However having found myself getting less principled and a having gained some perspective over the years as I age I relented and got the PC Game Pass service because buying one month was cheaper than the cost of the game that my friends wanted to play. In fact, I think it was £1 for a month or maybe for 3 months or something. And in doing so I realised that the service was actually pretty good as there were loads of backlog games on there that sounded good at review but I couldn't bring myself to buy - I'm looking at you Wolfenstein II, Dragon Age Andromeda, and The Saboteur (yes, it's been on my To Do list for literally 13 years).
So all was well. I got an Xbox Series S with my phone contract and it became a bit of Game Pass machine, and I found that I preferred gaming on my comfy sofa compared to hunched up on my desk having spent the entire day being hunched up on my desk working. Again, perhaps an age thing.
I used to hate the idea of cloud gaming. But then I tried xcloud on the xbox and it works quite well, in most situations, on my 100megabit connection (my xbox sees about 14MBps download speed). So much so that I swapped over my cable connection from my PC to my xbox and my PC makes do with some £15 USB wifi adapter.
So whilst I am sure people have talked about the principle of ownership before, what do I think the 'new' problems are?
Well I find that games have become incredibly disposable. I can try a game instantly and it has literally 10 minutes to hook me before I get bored knowing I can instantly try another game. I don't have the invested interest in giving it a fair shot like you do when you went into town to buy a game and read the manual on the bus ride home (I assume this was a universal experience, right?!). To be fair this is entirely on me and my terrible attention span.
I've also had the first time that a game I have been playing has been removed from the service. I bought GTA Definitive Edition, for my sins, on PC when it launched. I then switched to playing on the xbox through Game Pass but now it has been removed, after about 6 months, half-way through my playthrough and I'm tempted to buy it so I can complete it. I also saw that FF12/12-2 has been removed and that was probably 3rd on my to play list. I own Snow Runner on PC but downloaded the GP version on xbox and now I think I will go back to playing it on PC as there is a risk SR will get removed at some point This is perhaps unique to me as a PC gamer and xbox gamer but I am now hesitant to start a long game on Game Pass in case it gets removed.
Anyway hi everyone.
