Games With Gold is Too Little Too Late for Microsoft

FTG Writes: Microsoft hasn’t had the best public image in the last few months. The reveal for their next generation console, the Xbox One, was a complete disaster. Their messages were contradictory, confusing, and not at all unified of what they wanted to do, and the gaming press was lobbing complaints at them on a daily basis. After a decent presence at E3 2013, Microsoft completely went back on their stance of an “always online” console, which was met with a lukewarm reception. However, one of the things that Microsoft is doing to earn favor with the gaming public is to offer a “free games” service, Games With Gold, and is comparable to Sony’s PlayStation Plus model. Being Microsoft, they’ve decided to butcher this possible plus for them, too, and for many reasons.

[Saints94]

Chances are that AC2 and Halo 3 are going to be the best things on it :(

[xHeavYx]

They also said that, once the new Xbox launches, they will stop giving out free games

[Belking]

How long or how many publishers out there are willing to give away free games for a long period of time? I can't name one. Can't really complain about something that is free.

[Hicken]

@Belking: Sony.

[Ausbo]

where did they say that at?

[ALLWRONG]

keep it vs rent it

keep it wins

[Saints94]

Keep 12 games that might not be good or very old or rent a unlimited amount of games and the list keeps on growing.

Mind running by that again?

[GenericNameHere]

You're stupid. Keep it or rent it? You're getting FREE games! Who cares if you're gonna keep it or only have it as long as you have a subscription?

And if you're gonna be a fanboy about it, I choose rent it. What does Xbox give you? Games that are worth less than $10. What does PS+ give you? They give you old games too that are dirt cheap now, but they also give you games as recent as less than a year. Also, I don't know if they've done this again since then, but that new downloadable Virtua Fighter was free for PS+ members the day it came out. $15 normally. Now that was a pretty awesome deal.

Nevertheless, free games are free games. If Microsoft follows Sony's steps and give out free games, then that would be an extra bonus for Gold members (although they are paying $10 more than PS+)

[AngelicIceDiamond]

Giving out free games is never to late for anyone.

2 Sony fanboys taking first dibs on a Xbox related article. It never, ever fails.

[xDHAV0K24x]

It will go till the end of the yr. It should go on till the end of its cycle

[Ausbo]

Wow. Now microsoft is getting crap for giving away free games. What a stupid article

[horndog]

Since when have free games been bad!? What a stupid article. Why is it that stupid shit like this is only found at n4g??

[xDHAV0K24x]

Sony.com/n4g

[byeGollum]

Ehehehe

[GenericNameHere]

N4G, the place where Xbox fanboys come to cry "N4G is a place full of Sony fanboys!", despite there being a lot of stupid fanboys everywhere.

I dare you go to post on a Mario or Zelda or Animal Crossing. They hate everything non-Nintendo. And they WILL come in hordes, filled with 100 disagrees.

[xDHAV0K24x]

False. Been a Microsoft/Nintendo supporter since 6th gen

[greenlantern2814]

Getting free games is always a positive thing, ms has done a good thing but they should continue this longer than a year and yes not all free games will be triple a system sellers but it's free and will give people a chance to play games they wouldn't buy, or get games back they may have sold and now regret it, or maybe got damaged.
I have a ton of free games from ps+ and yeah quite a few are games I would never have paid for most recently sleeping dogs and BF 3. And as long as I keep my ps+ account I keep the games. While idk what titles ms is giving away besides halo3 and AC 2 and sure a lot of people have those games just as many never did

[Automatic79]

I agree getting free games is great. I heard MS is planning extend free games beyond December of this year. Xbox live is already an excellent experience adding this program just continues to show that Xbox live will be the place you want to enjoy all your experiences.

[greenlantern2814]

I find it hilarious that some disagreed with my comment above. Must be because I said something positive about both ms and sony.