PC Game Pass (was Xbox Game Pass for PC)

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£96 a year is still good value if you play more than 4 games a year. I've played 8 over the past year so won't grudge it.

Yup, thats pretty much how I'm looking at it, there arent many places where you can play a brand new, day one release £49.99 game for just £9.99 a month or whatever the price will be. Wastelands 3 for example is £55 on Steam, so you could play it for 5 months on Gamepass and it would still be cheaper than buying it on Steam. Considering all the games I get on gamepass and that its less than the price of 1 takeaway per month, for me at least its still great value. Gamepass has already saved me probably £100 , at least, on games that I might have otherwise bought in the last year.
 
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Yup, thats pretty much how I'm looking at it, there arent many places where you can play a brand new, day one release £49.99 game for just £9.99 a month or whatever the price will be. Wastelands 3 for example is £55 on Steam, so you could play it for 5 months on Gamepass and it would still be cheaper than buying it on Steam. Considering all the games I get on gamepass and that its less than the price of 1 takeaway per month, for me at least its still great value. Gamepass has already saved me probably £100 , at least, on games that I might have otherwise bought in the last year.

£7.99/month. The beta period was at a 50% discount (i.e. £3.99/month).

Ultimate is £10.99/month, and adds Game Pass for Xbox, xCloud, Xbox Live Gold, and EA Play.
 
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I think for me the value is not just the big releases, but the games I wouldn't have played otherwise. I recently played 'golf with friends' with some friends, and it was great fun. Would I have bought it otherwise? Unlikely, and would we have all bought it, even more unlikely. But because we all had game pass it was simple to just have a game.
 
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£96 a year is still good value if you play more than 4 games a year. I've played 8 over the past year so won't grudge it.

They aren't games I'd have bought though. It's borderline shovelware some of it. Plus if I buy single player games on disc ill sell them so I probably don't spend more than £50 a year on games now.
It was just a filler until I get PS5. So I get how it can make sense for some but for me not anymore.
The value of it is very subjective but I think its pretty good for 99% of people.
 
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Doubling the price is just too abrupt. I doubt many people will stick with it.
There no way i be paying £22 :eek: per month if they double the price
Just like Netflix i used to pay £5.99 per month now it £11.99

My Ultimate game pass is up somewhere around 02/2022 so i have a little over a year
 
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There no way i be paying £22 :eek: per month if they double the price
Just like Netflix i used to pay £5.99 per month now it £11.99

My Ultimate game pass is up somewhere around 02/2022 so i have a little over a year
Only the PC game pass is doubling from 3.99 to 7.99.
 
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Yep ^^

Only the pc version is increasing which at £7.99 brings it inline with the console only game pass which has been at £7.99 for a while. Then ultimate which will stay the same price as it was already higher and pay a little bit more to reap its benefits.
 
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There no way i be paying £22 :eek: per month if they double the price
Just like Netflix i used to pay £5.99 per month now it £11.99

My Ultimate game pass is up somewhere around 02/2022 so i have a little over a year

No need to panic. PC Game Pass was 50% off while in beta. Nothing is doubling in price. Nothing is increasing in price. A long-term 50% discount is simply ending. It's been known since the service was announced that this would happen.

It has zero effect on Ultimate prices.
 
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Any way of streaming the games on here to an Nvidia shield yet? The DRM means you can't just add them as a non-steam game and play via the Steam Link app :/

Quite a few controller suited games I'd happily pay £8/month for a couple of months for, but without being able to stream them, that idea is dead in the water
 
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So you subscribe and download the game you want to play, then what? Does it stay on your machine? I downloaded and played a bit of Wasteland 3 and after I quit, the game was removed and re-downloaded when I started the app?!?!?!?!
 
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So you subscribe and download the game you want to play, then what? Does it stay on your machine? I downloaded and played a bit of Wasteland 3 and after I quit, the game was removed and re-downloaded when I started the app?!?!?!?!

You've got something wrong there then, I have several games installed and none of them uninstall themselves when I stop playing them
 
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