>the drum master has only been on there for a few months >Few months
It's being removed exactly one year after it released
Game Pass is literally "Where did the time go?" >WOW this game was just added! >look at the date >it was 1/2 years ago
Really puts things into perspective.
Apparently Microsoft pays for the full production cost up front but I'd imagine some companies get roped into a popularity contest sort of contract similar to sites like Crunchyroll or Spotify where revenue gets paid out to those that top the leaderboards in player participation. I'm completely pulling this last part out my ass.
Microsoft has openly stated as much. No standard deal, they work with publisher (or self publishing dev) to determine the deal. Lump sum, engagement related, dev costs, whatever floats your executive teams boat.
>Japanese games are leaving game pass in droves
It's funny how you say this when Persona 3 and 3 come tomorrow to Gamepass, and Rise comes out in 2 days
If you actually follow GP release you should know there is nothing that indicates this. If anything it was a big surprise they dropped a bunch of games at the end of last year. Japanese games come and go just like every other game.
The steam version doesn't change the fact it is a new game and an actual current gen release of the game (unlike on PS where it is a PS4 release).
1 year ago
Anonymous
>The fact it's not a new game, or a new port, doesn't change the fact it's a new game & new port.
1 year ago
Anonymous
It is a new port because you can't play this version on any other console. You are trying to argue it doesn't count if it was on any other platform before. I guess then the Steam version doesn't count either because it is just a late port.
1 year ago
Anonymous
>I guess then the Steam version doesn't count either because it is just a late port.
Yes, moron.
1 year ago
Anonymous
Salty snoy then? Why didn't you say so? >4K120fps NEVER EVER ON PS
1 year ago
Anonymous
Mutt?
1 year ago
Anonymous
>I got the sloppy seconds a year ago so I'm better
kek
1 year ago
Anonymous
>Look at these sloppy seconds I got >Uh, Anon, it came out a year ago. >OH SO YOU'RE BRAGGING ABOUT SLOPPY SECONDS, HUH?
What is wrong with you, mutt? Grow a foreskin
1 year ago
Anonymous
You got upset when I reminded you Game Pass offers a brand new version of the game as a day 1 release. You tried to spin it how it doesn't count despite even you played it way later than the official first release. Now you are seething and try to call me names completely wrong. Kind of flattering you think I'm American though.
1 year ago
Anonymous
I'm dealing with a moron. Continue. I can't tell if you're pretending or not, but I can't be bothered with placating you.
1 year ago
Anonymous
No arguments then. I will accept your defeat.
1 year ago
Anonymous
>You got upset when I reminded you Game Pass offers a brand new version of the gam
What's even new about the XBox version?
It's just P4 Golden.
1 year ago
Anonymous
Current gen performance on the Xbox Series consoles, some translation changes and small QOL changes.
1 year ago
Anonymous
The port is a simultanious release for the Series S/X, PS4 and Switch, the performance ain't gonna change between said releases, and regardless doesn't matter because unless it's a remaster of some sort you already have peak performance on PC. >translation changes
Either irrelevant or worse >QOL changes
Yes but what?
It's literally the same same game as before it seems to me. Even if it's not, you're acting as if XBox gets some exclusive access to this new version when it's being released on both PS4 and Switch as well.
1 year ago
Anonymous
>the performance ain't gonna change between said release
It was officially confirmed the game runs 4K120fps on Series consoles and Xbox is the only version that gets this as PS only gets a PS4 version of the game. Why do you talk about things you know nothing of.
1 year ago
Anonymous
>The port is a simultanious release for the Series S/X, PS4 and Switch,
Yes, all the multiplat games look and run the same on the switch as on the SeX.
Hey dipshits, Microsoft has the option not to renew contracts with underperforming games. Chances are some of these games will come back once they negotiate
Damn, I was meaning to play Taiko, though I just looked on Steam and it wasn't there at all so what the frick, is it only available on PC through the Windows Store?
All I'm gonna say is: Xbox & Microsoft have sucked since the 2nd half of the Xbox 360 generation. I don't even know what happened that turned them into such morons. Was it the success of the Wii? Culture just shifting towards morons?
Gears of War 3 and Halo Reach were fine but both series really should have ended right there. Those both felt like perfect conclusions and there was really nothing to explore either story wise or gameplay wise after that. 343 Halo has been a disaster and Gears hasn't been much better
>one franchise has suffered 2 okay to middling games >the other has suffered 1 shitty 'Anniversary', a botched launch day rivalling cyberpunk for a fricking collection of previously working games followed by multiple years of being a not working product into at the very least working correctly, 3 awful new titles with different reasons for each being shit, and a TV show that perverts the source material supported, encouraged, and developed by the company meant to be handling the source material
it's not even close mate.
Gears 5 was so awful that I'd honestly prefer it if 343 was developing a new spin-off line for Gears.
1 year ago
Anonymous
Nah, you sound like a gay if you honestly believe the Coalition did more damage to Gears than 343 did to Halo.
1 year ago
Anonymous
Gears 5 is honestly the only game of those that I couldn't finish. >You sound like a gay.
Gears 5 is the gaygiest.
https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/09/06/gears-5-is-grounded-in-diversity-says-director-as-players-praise-lgbt-disability-representation
1 year ago
Anonymous
What the frick does that has anything to do with the gameplay, homosexual?
1 year ago
Anonymous
>Play multiplayer >Advertisements for movies & LGBTQ flags are everywhere. >Play campaign >(You) are the homosexual.
It had half-decent horde, but that's it.
1 year ago
Anonymous
>Multiplayer is among the best in the series >But it's bad because of shit that doesn't affect gameplay
Also >Kait is gay
She's dating JD, you fricking moron.
1 year ago
Anonymous
>She's dating JD, you fricking moron.
Source?
1 year ago
Anonymous
Granted, their relationship is strain during the events of Gears 5, but if you let JD die, Kait takes it the harder than when Del dies.
1 year ago
Anonymous
It's telling that you had to look it up, and found the exact same resource that I did, Anon.
1 year ago
Anonymous
Black person what? You asked for a source, and I gave you something. The frick else do you want?
I killed jd became co-op partner was black irl
I saved JD even if I liked Del more because I won't let Marcus suffer anymore.
1 year ago
Anonymous
>Black person what? You asked for a source, and I gave you something. The frick else do you want?
You gave me a photo that isn't in the game. It was released EXCLUSIVELY on Twitter for Valentine's Day.
1 year ago
Anonymous
That's more than what Marcus and Anya got in the 3 games there were together.
1 year ago
Anonymous
Stop making me remember a world without Twitter
1 year ago
Anonymous
I killed jd became co-op partner was black irl
1 year ago
Anonymous
Gears 5 was pretty soulless campaign but goated multiplayer
I like their overall service, barring obviously most of the Xbox One years, but as a former 360 owner you're right. I don't get into Game Pass personally as it's always just the main game no DLC, so then as a consumer all I'm left with is exclusive titles and while they have pivoted to console/PC releases I'm still not interested since most of what is delivered has been series that I played already on the 360.
Here's a hot take, Halo simultaneously saved and ruined the Xbox.
I don't really get it either. As much as I hated the Xbox 360 as a console because it was a piece of shit that would break down constantly. I consider it the best of its generation. I think they focused way too much on boring FPS games and sports games and neglected all other genres. They were also late in the game with Fromsoft. I remember the only reason I owned a PS3 was for Demon's Souls, that's literally it. I owned a Wii because I'm a tendie at heart.
This gen has been better for Xbox, at least they aren't flopping as hard as PS. I hope they survive because the competition is always good.
I own both consoles. I have zero interest in the PS5 "exclusives." I'm not stating my opinion as fact, I just think PS5 has nothing worth playing at the moment. At least I can turn on my Xbox and get some shitty indie game from the pass.
>shit games leaving pass
Okay, lol. I only use the xbox game pass to play games I would never purchase in the first place. I think the only exception so far was Aliens Isolation which I already owned on the PC and Signalis which I bought after I played it because it's a genuinely good game.
>play taiko multiplayer >song begins >not even one note and opponent quits
Why the FRICK do they keep doing this? I just finished my session with the same fricker quitting on me five times in a row.
>Buy NES or GBA game >Its battery dies after a few decades >Buy VHS tape >It rots after a few decades >Buy launch PS2 >It breaks after a few months >Nobody complains
>Rent a game that you can easily just pirate >NOOOOOOOOOO I HAVE TO REPEAT A MEME AND POST SOME homosexual SMUG KID OVER AND OVER
20 most popular Game Pass games: >Minecraft >Forza Horizon 5 >Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege >FIFA 22 (Xbox One) >FIFA 22 (Xbox Series X/S) >Halo Infinite (Multiplayer) >Halo Infinite (Campaign) >Forza Horizon 4 >Sea of Thieves >ARK >High On Life >Grounded >Madden NFL 22 (Xbox One) >UFC 4 >Microsoft Flight Simulator >Gang Beasts >Assassin's Creed Odyssey >Mortal Kombat 11 >Farming Simulator 22 >Halo: The Master Chief Collection
It's all normie shit. I bet indie devs are really disappointed when they put their game on Game Pass and no one plays it.
Still better than getting no money and like the other anon said, a lot of game on gamepass end up selling better on other consoles because people use Gamepass as a way to demo games
>Ganker cares about indie devs now
I bet they like it when people play their game like RageSquid is probably happy with game pass. Apparently appearing on gamepass increases sales of their games on other platforms to according to some indies devs
>have big smart tv to watch movies on >want to watch goodfellas again >open netflix >it's not there anymore >have to watch it on my computer instead
i hate streaming services. at least i don't pay for it.
>weekly nolstagia wankery threads over blockbuster and the 'good old times' of renting a single game over 2 days for $10 >also daily 'gamepass is le antichrist' threads
consumers ARE cattle and they DESERVE to not be listened to.
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aww
It's a good thing I don't play any of those shitty games.
Drum master isn't shitty
then buy it at a discount before it leaves?
Hang on the drum master has only been on there for a few months
Wtf
>the drum master has only been on there for a few months
>Few months
It's being removed exactly one year after it released
Game Pass is literally "Where did the time go?"
>WOW this game was just added!
>look at the date
>it was 1/2 years ago
Really puts things into perspective.
ok
Why are so many game developers abandoning Game Pass, the greatest deal in gaming?
Apparently Microsoft pays for the full production cost up front but I'd imagine some companies get roped into a popularity contest sort of contract similar to sites like Crunchyroll or Spotify where revenue gets paid out to those that top the leaderboards in player participation. I'm completely pulling this last part out my ass.
Microsoft has openly stated as much. No standard deal, they work with publisher (or self publishing dev) to determine the deal. Lump sum, engagement related, dev costs, whatever floats your executive teams boat.
>You will own nothing and be happy
Why not buy it then if you care so much, homosexual? Xbox gives you a discount.
>you WILL pay $60 for every game that comes out
Lol donut County is perfect one and done game. Imagine owning it digitally? Digital graveyard collectors are moronic. I can own what I want
Japanese games are leaving game pass in droves and it's barely being made up for, only with Persona games they announced over half a year ago.
I think MS has already pulled back on their "Japan plans", looks like they're once again unhappy they didn't get overnight success there.
Lmao cope as Persona games are going to be the most played gpass games. Touch grass and stop capn snoy
>Japanese games are leaving game pass in droves
It's funny how you say this when Persona 3 and 3 come tomorrow to Gamepass, and Rise comes out in 2 days
They're months old deals. MS hasn't dropped a previously unannounced Jap game on GP since September.
>MS hasn't dropped a previously unannounced Jap game on GP since September.
Monster Hunter was announced for Gamepass in December
>previously unannounced Jap game
It was an unannounced port, Jackass. The debut trailer of it coming PS/Xbox also revealed it was coming to Gamepass.
>it only counts if it is a shadow drop
Yes because it means they have stopped negotiating for Jap ports. Don't expect much after Persona and Wo Long.
If you actually follow GP release you should know there is nothing that indicates this. If anything it was a big surprise they dropped a bunch of games at the end of last year. Japanese games come and go just like every other game.
Literally day before damage control. Friendly reminder that pajeets and brown people of the world favor Playstation and support Sony blindly.
>Japanese games are leaving game pass in droves
>Day 1
>Persona 4
Brand new version of the game with significant changes like 4K120fps mode (only on Xbox).
That's already on Steam, Anon?
The steam version doesn't change the fact it is a new game and an actual current gen release of the game (unlike on PS where it is a PS4 release).
>The fact it's not a new game, or a new port, doesn't change the fact it's a new game & new port.
It is a new port because you can't play this version on any other console. You are trying to argue it doesn't count if it was on any other platform before. I guess then the Steam version doesn't count either because it is just a late port.
>I guess then the Steam version doesn't count either because it is just a late port.
Yes, moron.
Salty snoy then? Why didn't you say so?
>4K120fps NEVER EVER ON PS
Mutt?
>I got the sloppy seconds a year ago so I'm better
kek
>Look at these sloppy seconds I got
>Uh, Anon, it came out a year ago.
>OH SO YOU'RE BRAGGING ABOUT SLOPPY SECONDS, HUH?
What is wrong with you, mutt? Grow a foreskin
You got upset when I reminded you Game Pass offers a brand new version of the game as a day 1 release. You tried to spin it how it doesn't count despite even you played it way later than the official first release. Now you are seething and try to call me names completely wrong. Kind of flattering you think I'm American though.
I'm dealing with a moron. Continue. I can't tell if you're pretending or not, but I can't be bothered with placating you.
No arguments then. I will accept your defeat.
>You got upset when I reminded you Game Pass offers a brand new version of the gam
What's even new about the XBox version?
It's just P4 Golden.
Current gen performance on the Xbox Series consoles, some translation changes and small QOL changes.
The port is a simultanious release for the Series S/X, PS4 and Switch, the performance ain't gonna change between said releases, and regardless doesn't matter because unless it's a remaster of some sort you already have peak performance on PC.
>translation changes
Either irrelevant or worse
>QOL changes
Yes but what?
It's literally the same same game as before it seems to me. Even if it's not, you're acting as if XBox gets some exclusive access to this new version when it's being released on both PS4 and Switch as well.
>the performance ain't gonna change between said release
It was officially confirmed the game runs 4K120fps on Series consoles and Xbox is the only version that gets this as PS only gets a PS4 version of the game. Why do you talk about things you know nothing of.
>The port is a simultanious release for the Series S/X, PS4 and Switch,
Yes, all the multiplat games look and run the same on the switch as on the SeX.
Jesus christ, anon
I should play some Taiko before it leaves.
>None of my installed games were removed
W
Gamepass is a replacement for physically renting games, so it's a great deal. It never made the promise that you'd own them.
>I will keep being a forced meme homosexual and I will always be a homosexual
Hey dipshits, Microsoft has the option not to renew contracts with underperforming games. Chances are some of these games will come back once they negotiate
This, games like Descenders are played by a lot of ppl still and its been on there since like 2018.
Damn, I was meaning to play Taiko, though I just looked on Steam and it wasn't there at all so what the frick, is it only available on PC through the Windows Store?
>is it only available on PC through the Windows Store?
Yep. Maybe they paid for its development.
But I can still buy those games.
And better yet, if I beat them and didn't like them, I didn't pay full price for them
All I'm gonna say is: Xbox & Microsoft have sucked since the 2nd half of the Xbox 360 generation. I don't even know what happened that turned them into such morons. Was it the success of the Wii? Culture just shifting towards morons?
Mobile gaming makes more money than console, and PC gaming combined.
>Gears 3
>Gears: Judgment
>Halo Reach
>Halo 4
This is when I knew Xbox was fricked.
Gears of War 3 and Halo Reach were fine but both series really should have ended right there. Those both felt like perfect conclusions and there was really nothing to explore either story wise or gameplay wise after that. 343 Halo has been a disaster and Gears hasn't been much better
Gears 5 is worse than Gaylo 4 / 5 / Infinite
>one franchise has suffered 2 okay to middling games
>the other has suffered 1 shitty 'Anniversary', a botched launch day rivalling cyberpunk for a fricking collection of previously working games followed by multiple years of being a not working product into at the very least working correctly, 3 awful new titles with different reasons for each being shit, and a TV show that perverts the source material supported, encouraged, and developed by the company meant to be handling the source material
it's not even close mate.
Gears 5 was so awful that I'd honestly prefer it if 343 was developing a new spin-off line for Gears.
Nah, you sound like a gay if you honestly believe the Coalition did more damage to Gears than 343 did to Halo.
Gears 5 is honestly the only game of those that I couldn't finish.
>You sound like a gay.
Gears 5 is the gaygiest.
https://www.ign.com/articles/2019/09/06/gears-5-is-grounded-in-diversity-says-director-as-players-praise-lgbt-disability-representation
What the frick does that has anything to do with the gameplay, homosexual?
>Play multiplayer
>Advertisements for movies & LGBTQ flags are everywhere.
>Play campaign
>(You) are the homosexual.
It had half-decent horde, but that's it.
>Multiplayer is among the best in the series
>But it's bad because of shit that doesn't affect gameplay
Also
>Kait is gay
She's dating JD, you fricking moron.
>She's dating JD, you fricking moron.
Source?
Granted, their relationship is strain during the events of Gears 5, but if you let JD die, Kait takes it the harder than when Del dies.
It's telling that you had to look it up, and found the exact same resource that I did, Anon.
Black person what? You asked for a source, and I gave you something. The frick else do you want?
I saved JD even if I liked Del more because I won't let Marcus suffer anymore.
>Black person what? You asked for a source, and I gave you something. The frick else do you want?
You gave me a photo that isn't in the game. It was released EXCLUSIVELY on Twitter for Valentine's Day.
That's more than what Marcus and Anya got in the 3 games there were together.
Stop making me remember a world without Twitter
I killed jd became co-op partner was black irl
Gears 5 was pretty soulless campaign but goated multiplayer
4 I meant. 4s multi was balanced
I like their overall service, barring obviously most of the Xbox One years, but as a former 360 owner you're right. I don't get into Game Pass personally as it's always just the main game no DLC, so then as a consumer all I'm left with is exclusive titles and while they have pivoted to console/PC releases I'm still not interested since most of what is delivered has been series that I played already on the 360.
Here's a hot take, Halo simultaneously saved and ruined the Xbox.
I don't really get it either. As much as I hated the Xbox 360 as a console because it was a piece of shit that would break down constantly. I consider it the best of its generation. I think they focused way too much on boring FPS games and sports games and neglected all other genres. They were also late in the game with Fromsoft. I remember the only reason I owned a PS3 was for Demon's Souls, that's literally it. I owned a Wii because I'm a tendie at heart.
This gen has been better for Xbox, at least they aren't flopping as hard as PS. I hope they survive because the competition is always good.
The Xbox Series has even fewer exclusives than PS5. The only thing it has over the Playstation is a better console design.
I own both consoles. I have zero interest in the PS5 "exclusives." I'm not stating my opinion as fact, I just think PS5 has nothing worth playing at the moment. At least I can turn on my Xbox and get some shitty indie game from the pass.
First form.
Second form.
Third & Final form (after escaping Microsoft).
>after escaping microsoft
>no native Linux port
;_;
>shit games leaving pass
Okay, lol. I only use the xbox game pass to play games I would never purchase in the first place. I think the only exception so far was Aliens Isolation which I already owned on the PC and Signalis which I bought after I played it because it's a genuinely good game.
Disagree
>The Old republic
>Starcraft 2
The old republic was a fine mmo when you played with friends.
PS2 was the golden age for Sony. Fricking incredible console. Shame they have been shit since, with only PS4 being somewhat decent.
>all of .hack
holy sovl
Endless goyslop dispenser is SO SWEET
NOOO FRICK WHAT AM I GONNA DO WITHOUT DONUT COUNTRY AND TELLING LIES XBROS ITS FRICKING OVER
Then buy it
Game would be on 3x3 if was a Wii game
>shit games getting cut.
Looking forward to playing Monster Hunter Rise for free on GamePass tomorrow. Thanks for paying $70 and beta-testing for me.
>play taiko multiplayer
>song begins
>not even one note and opponent quits
Why the FRICK do they keep doing this? I just finished my session with the same fricker quitting on me five times in a row.
But you already didn't own anything since it was a subscription service.
I mean, the games might be leaving Game Pass but they'll still be available for purchase. You can own them.
>1-time 2-hour experience
>party game #91828369
>1-time 2-hour experience
>game that has 1902341 free clones on pc
not much value lost
Worms bros, is any game after Armageddon worth my time?
>buying an xbox
>cancel subscription
oh wow
>Buy NES or GBA game
>Its battery dies after a few decades
>Buy VHS tape
>It rots after a few decades
>Buy launch PS2
>It breaks after a few months
>Nobody complains
>Rent a game that you can easily just pirate
>NOOOOOOOOOO I HAVE TO REPEAT A MEME AND POST SOME homosexual SMUG KID OVER AND OVER
>cancel subscription
>buy the game
>pirate the game
wow so hard for morons like op to comprehend these concepts
>You will own nothing and be happy.
Yes, that's literally how you achieve enlightenment. Funny how you act against your own interests.
20 most popular Game Pass games:
>Minecraft
>Forza Horizon 5
>Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
>FIFA 22 (Xbox One)
>FIFA 22 (Xbox Series X/S)
>Halo Infinite (Multiplayer)
>Halo Infinite (Campaign)
>Forza Horizon 4
>Sea of Thieves
>ARK
>High On Life
>Grounded
>Madden NFL 22 (Xbox One)
>UFC 4
>Microsoft Flight Simulator
>Gang Beasts
>Assassin's Creed Odyssey
>Mortal Kombat 11
>Farming Simulator 22
>Halo: The Master Chief Collection
It's all normie shit. I bet indie devs are really disappointed when they put their game on Game Pass and no one plays it.
I think they will be happy with the money MS gives them
Microsoft gives them a fee then gives them extra depending on how much people play it. Most indie devs won't make anything more than the initial fee.
source? I just see indie devs literally begging people to lobby for their game to come to gamepass
Still better than getting no money and like the other anon said, a lot of game on gamepass end up selling better on other consoles because people use Gamepass as a way to demo games
>Ganker cares about indie devs now
I bet they like it when people play their game like RageSquid is probably happy with game pass. Apparently appearing on gamepass increases sales of their games on other platforms to according to some indies devs
>have big smart tv to watch movies on
>want to watch goodfellas again
>open netflix
>it's not there anymore
>have to watch it on my computer instead
i hate streaming services. at least i don't pay for it.
>want to watch or play literally anything
>65" TV is connected directly to computer
The only way.
i don't really want to use a big monitor and i can't have that kind of setup anyway.
>TV hooked up directly to your CC
>weekly nolstagia wankery threads over blockbuster and the 'good old times' of renting a single game over 2 days for $10
>also daily 'gamepass is le antichrist' threads
consumers ARE cattle and they DESERVE to not be listened to.
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