tigersgogrrr wrote:

LG for Life.

OLED it be?

https://kotaku.com/fans-find-huge-list-of-new-games-coming-to-xbox-one-and-1835355964

Game Pass

If you've never tried it you'll likely be disappointed.

It's q slightly oddly worded headline tbf.

Yeah, I guess if you don't have the rose tinted specs, the alternative is to appreciate where it was and what has come from it.

Just in case anyone doesn't check out the Deals thread....

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate - INCREDIBLE DEAL

https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/p/xbox-game-pass/CFQ7TTC0KHS0/0007?activetab=pivot:gamesanddealstab

so ultimate combines game pass and Gold, and will be £10.99 per month.
There's the normal intro offer of £1 for the first month, but here's the real bargain. It will also update any remaining months of gold AND game pass that you have into Ultimate (max 36 months total).
i thought it just updated gold, for which my sub (and game pass) ran to end of this year, so I bought another 12 months gold first (£49.99 via MS, though cdkeys have it for £39.99), taking that gold sub into 2020, but game pass expiring later this year.
Paid the £1 upgrade, and I now have ultimate until end of 2021!

So really, if you have any interest in xbox gold and game pass you should get the upgrade, and maybe stack some extra months of gold on first.

Hang on. I didn't realise all those new GP games were on now?? Thought it was just Batman, Metro and Borderlands?

Just checked the app and there's a billion new additions on there to queue for download.

Mistake?

I thought there was a couple more than that - apparently Battlechasers was one of the games and it isn't on that list. So...

The Game Pass model looks like good value - good enough for me to consider buying in to it. However, I'm now in the space where I couldn't justify buying a new Xbox, because I know there's another one along in 18 months.

I don't currently have an Xbox One. I had one around 18 months ago, but sold it on because - after playing through a few of the exclusives - it was gathering dust. If I was going back in, I'd buy a One X, but that's out the window now because I'd want to upgrade again next Xmas. I appreciate that sounds entitled, but I'd assume I'm not the only one who likes to have the latest console or tech.

RedDave2 wrote:

So, have I got this right. Gamepass works on pc and xbox, one sub (I got warmonger through it on my surface yesterday) Gold is still a thing if you just want xbox online Ultimate is both gold and Gamepass together.

Gamepass was primarily xbox, but certain games (mainly MS first party) are play anywhere, so if you buy digitally through MS, you get the game on PC and xbox...those games on game pass then worked on xbox or pc - ie Sea of Thieves and Forza. However most of the games on game pass were xbox only.
MS have now added a new PC version of game pass, for which all the games will work on PC, and there'll be some differences in the catalogue compared to the xbox version.
Gold is for xbox online multiplayer - it's never been needed on PC before, i'm assuming that's still the case.

Ultimate gets you all 3 together. And the deal I linked will add up any existing months of gold or xbox gamepass subs that you have, then convert them into months of ultimate, for £1.

RamSteelwood wrote:

RedDave2 wrote:

So, have I got this right. Gamepass works on pc and xbox, one sub (I got warmonger through it on my surface yesterday) Gold is still a thing if you just want xbox online Ultimate is both gold and Gamepass together.

Gamepass was primarily xbox, but certain games (mainly MS first party) are play anywhere, so if you buy digitally through MS, you get the game on PC and xbox...those games on game pass then worked on xbox or pc - ie Sea of Thieves and Forza. However most of the games on game pass were xbox only.
MS have now added a new PC version of game pass, for which all the games will work on PC, and there'll be some differences in the catalogue compared to the xbox version.
Gold is for xbox online multiplayer - it's never been needed on PC before, i'm assuming that's still the case.

Ultimate gets you all 3 together. And the deal I linked will add up any existing months of gold or xbox gamepass subs that you have, then convert them into months of ultimate, for £1.

I'm being silly again but Gamepass is a Microsoft account thing and not a machine based thing? So if I subscribe to Gamepass it works on whatever machine I log into, similar to Netflix (obviously with the difference some games aren't on every format). At the moment that's the way it seems, just wondering if that's it going forward because thats a great bit of value I wasn't aware of. Gamepass on my xbox, but also on any windows 10 machine I have, tech permitting? If that's all covered by one sub I'm very happy.

MattyJ wrote:

Correct. You can only have it on limited machines but is tied to your account. All covered under this one sub.

That is fucking nice. For me that's a big plus to sticking with Microsoft for the next gen. Gamepass covering the laptop and the xbox2 (and my current bone if I keep it) is great. I reckon they will also continue the solid work with back catalogue stuff as well.

Codename I assume. Like Scorpio was for Xbox One