XBOX COMMUNITY!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Legend]

Wise. PS+ monthly games have stayed good but Xbox games with gold have been a joke for years. They tend to be 360 games you've never even heard of.

A few gamepass games would be a great upgrade for people.

[the-pi-guy]

Our launch collection of more than 25 titles from Xbox Game Studios, Bethesda, and our content partners will offer something for everyone to play on their Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One consoles. Today we're confirming the following titles for launch*, with more to be announced in advance of September 14. New titles will be added 2-3 times a year.

Among Us
Descenders
Dishonored 2
Doom Eternal
Fable Anniversary
Fallout 4
Fallout 76
Forza Horizon 4
Gears 5
Grounded
Halo 5: Guardians
Halo Wars 2
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice
Human Fall Flat
Inside
Ori & The Will of the Wisps
Psychonauts 2
State of Decay 2
The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited

Confirmed

[kitler53]

There's a rumor that Xbox Live base is getting replaced with a stripped down version of Game Pass Core. 

It seems like the idea is to give people a taste of Gamepass:

1. so core would no longer have monthly games?
2. at $9.99 a month cost will have doubled?
3. the price to feature between "core" and "console" is massively lopsided.   

in summary: looks like MS's growing monopoly of video game publishers is already showing how terrible it will be for customers.   can't use their console without an overpriced subscription.   MS might as well just eliminate core entirely and put mp gaming into gamepass.   would be less anger inducing than this.

[Legend]

Halo 5, not infinite lol.

[kitler53]

welp, didn't notice the confirmed when i posted.  

well this cut MS's cost a lot.  no more need to pay 3rd party publishers for games.   even less opportunity for studios not owned by MS.   ..all according to plan i'll assume.

[the-pi-guy]

1. so core would no longer have monthly games?
2. at $9.99 a month cost will have doubled?
3. the price to feature between "core" and "console" is massively lopsided.  

in summary: looks like MS's growing monopoly of video game publishers is already showing how terrible it will be for customers.   can't use their console without an overpriced subscription.   MS might as well just eliminate core entirely and put mp gaming into gamepass.   would be less anger inducing than this.

1. Correct. Gets updated "2-3 times a year"
2. Xbox Live's monthly cost was $10, $5 average if you bought the yearly pass. It's still $60/year for that pass.
3. All depends on whether you are getting the monthly or the yearly. Not sure if GamePass Console has a yearly subscription?

[kitler53]

1. Correct. Gets updated "2-3 times a year"
2. Xbox Live's monthly cost was $10, $5 average if you bought the yearly pass. It's still $60/year for that pass.
3. All depends on whether you are getting the monthly or the yearly. Not sure if GamePass Console has a yearly subscription?

just read the era thread and realized i was confused.   these teirs and naming are pretty confusing as i (like many) didn't realized that gamepass console didn't include multiplayer.

interesting that this is basically a nerf for gamepass ultimate subscribers.  

[the-pi-guy]

Article title writers suck.

There are new articles about how Microsoft was the one to convince Bethesda to delay Starfield when they got acquired.

And those article titles do not say when.

Top two article titles that show up when I search for Starfield:
 
>Starfield delayed following Xbox's encouragement
>Xbox and Microsoft Delayed Starfield to Ensure its Quality

(back in 2021/2022)

 

[Legend]

Article title writers suck.

There are new articles about how Microsoft was the one to convince Bethesda to delay Starfield when they got acquired.

And those article titles do not say when.

Top two article titles that show up when I search for Starfield:
 
>Starfield delayed following Xbox's encouragement
>Xbox and Microsoft Delayed Starfield to Ensure its Quality

(back in 2021/2022)

 

I'm telling ya, AI needs to hurry up and kill SEO focused websites.

[kitler53]

BG3 not coming to xbox this year.  so not a lot different from what i posted earlier but this confirms a big delay to the release.

We have quite a few engineers working very hard to do what no other RPG of this scale has achieved: seamless drop-in, drop-out co-op on Series S. We hope to have an update by the end of the year.

— Very AFK (@Cromwelp) July 31, 2023

if i was a series X owner i'd be soo pissed about this situation.

[Legend]

It's just the perfect wrench in Microsoft's plans. Hopefully Microsoft drops their requirements. I don't want games to keep playing like last gen games.


Also the new xbox ui is bad but not as bad as I feared. Finally tried it out the other day.

[kitler53]

It's just the perfect wrench in Microsoft's plans. Hopefully Microsoft drops their requirements. I don't want games to keep playing like last gen games.


Also the new xbox ui is bad but not as bad as I feared. Finally tried it out the other day.

it's a damned if they do and damned if they don't situation.  i mean, i called it that series S would hold back the entire gen when it was announced.   series S would have been amazing if it had done amazing but now that it didn't it will be a huge albatross on xbox's back.

[darkknightkryta]

Microsoft's largest game, that they paid 7.5 Billion dollars to make exclusive, launched to no fanfare here!

[Legend]

Microsoft's largest game, that they paid 7.5 million dollars to make exclusive, launched to no fanfare here!

Au contraire, it's been our most active thread for a few weeks

Starfield OT Gone Gold - Page 14

[kitler53]

Microsoft's largest game, that they paid 7.5 million dollars to make exclusive, launched to no fanfare here!

billion.  with a "B".


i still think that MS got a really good deal here.  not as good as sony's purchase of insomiac but bethesda is soo much more than just starfield/fallout/skyrim.