Stevivor - "For the moment, Xbox Game Pass Ultimate will only be available as a monthly subscription, Microsoft has told Stevivor. Announced earlier in the month, we asked Microsoft if the combination of Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass would be offered to gamers in 3-, 6- or 12-month subscriptions."
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With all the PlayStation games that are now coming to PC, is it time for Sony to release a dedicated PC launcher?
Unless they are trying to kill their recently created PC business, I would advise against opening a dedicated PC store. It's an extremely hard endeavor, and people, in general, are very comfortable with Steam. Even Epic, with their billions of dollars invested, is still struggling to find a foothold, and they have Fortnite.
Can tell who ever put this together is not all that clued up on pc gaming.
It's just a known fact. The PC gaming community prefer Steam and Steam alone. They don't like different launchers. I personally don't mind them. But majority just stick with steam. Hence why EA and Ubisoft went back to on releasing on steam and why Microsoft release games on steam as people hated buying from the windows store.
The only other launchers that I imagine are doing ok is GOG due to being drm free and epic games due to the free games every week. Sony shouldn't release any sort of pc launcher n
This is just another ridiculous double standard article.
It's like how Microsoft can spend 20 years of making nothing but gaas and live service style games to sell microtransactions, dlc and subscriptions and get praise for doing it, but if Sony wants to make a single game like that every website under the sun is writing articles saying how Sony is anti-consumer or whatever.
"The best games of the year and the creative teams behind them were in the spotlight at the grand award ceremony of the German Computer Game Award 2024." - German Computer Game Awards.
Without 3-12 month sub options Microsoft really thinks they’re doing customers a favor by offering XBGPU for $180 annually on a $15 monthly basis, which is the same amount you’d get if you were to pay for XBLG & XBGP separately for one year.
Hell you can even find frequent discounts for those two individually than you would for this bundle offer, so who’s really celebrating this thing?
That's a lot of dough saved in the long run
Microsoft doesn’t even have a 3-12 month subscription plan for just the regular Xbox Game Pass after two years of its existence. I doubt Microsoft would think of doing it for the Ultimate version of it at this point.
If you’re a consumer who wants a better deal on your Xbox subscriptions than paying $180 a year for access to both you’d be better off looking for them individually than waiting for Microsoft to get with the program and offer more cost effective long term options.
This Ultimate bundle is another halfhearted joke of a decision from Microsoft. It also serves to remind people they can’t play Game Pass online multiplayer games without an Xbox Live Gold sub, which isn’t the case for PS Now.
Who would commit to a year of gamepass? I just buy a month of it every couple months when something good comes along. MH World most recently.