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battle toads is out and on gamepass
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The wait is over! Rash, Zitz and Pimple are returning at last to smash-hit their way through an all-new action-packed adventure of choreographed chaos, and couch co-op may never be the same again. 1-3 players will take control of the Battletoads and team up to storm through wild and...
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battle toads is out and on gamepass
Buy Battletoads | Xbox
The wait is over! Rash, Zitz and Pimple are returning at last to smash-hit their way through an all-new action-packed adventure of choreographed chaos, and couch co-op may never be the same again. 1-3 players will take control of the Battletoads and team up to storm through wild and...www.microsoft.com
Downloaded to play with my brother since we played the hell out of it as kids and it's couch co op only. One of those wtf decisions especially after how fun Streets of Rage 4 was to do online together.
spronk
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If you have gamepass ultimate and an xbox you can get some free stuff including another 3 months of discord nitro (different than the previous one so you can do it again), some free dlc codes and shit for games, etc. Just start your xbox and press the xbox button on your controller and bottom left of the screen you should see "Get your perks", click it to claim each of them. I got some PSO2 items, sea of thieves parrot bundle, gears 5 pack, 6 months of free spotify, etc.
also a few new games on gamepass like The Messenger, Wasteland 3
also a few new games on gamepass like The Messenger, Wasteland 3
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Koushirou
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Just finished this game up. This was very relaxing and very addicting. Couple rough spots towards the end pacing-wise, but might be due to having to cut some stuff. Quite touching and has a lovely little soundtrack on top of it. Husband gifted it to me on Steam after playing it himself, but I really wished I had it on Switch because I wanted to just take this everywhere with me. Steam does have a bundle with a digital art book and OST (though I imagine you can find the OST elsewhere) and the book includes some extra background info for the characters you meet.
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Utnayan
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So the new DLC is out for outer worlds. Why isn’t this free on gamepass? I wonder. Couldn’t be that gamepass was always planned as releasing mediocre shit leveraging the base game as an install market base to sell dlc and MTX could it?
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Utnayan
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Wonder about the financials behind this. Was EA play getting its butt kicked or did MS pay a hefty price.
Vorph
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Game Pass almost never includes DLC, and even when it does they do weird shit like give you Pillars of Eternity Hero Edition on PC (no expansion pass) while it's the Complete Edition on Xbone. Doesn't really bother me much when the game and DLC are good, but I'm certainly not paying $15 extra for Outer Worlds DLC which just sounds like more of the same mediocrity.
Seeing as EA came crawling back to Steam recently too, pretty sure it's option A.
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popsicledeath
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So, your complaint is there was free access to the base game and they're charging for DOC's instead of having to pay for the base game too? I get that you're salty, but a moment of honesty without typical forum hyperbole: this topic is starting to make you seem obsessed.
As a counterpoint, Gamepass is awesome to me. I've always wished there were more opportunities to play games more extensively than a demo before buying, and sometimes Gamepass offers that, like with outer world where it was going to be a game I played for 5 hours or so before getting bored whether I paid for it or not. In this cass, nameless saved me.
Gamepass is basically free. If you're willing to do the bare minimum with their rewards and points program gamepass pays for itself. Can redeem directly or for gift cards. I do all the rewards stuff and estimate this year I'll be able to redeem $225 in gift cards to put towards game pass, or the new console, or get this, towards the Outer Worlds DLC or other games I got base access to first.
Likewise, I always wished there were better ways to try indie and oddball games other than a steam library with a ton of games I barely tried but didn't/couldn't refund. Gamepass has a ton of games I would have never otherwise been exposed to that ended up being favorites I play extensively and even buy when they leave Gamepass. But with gift card redemption earned through the rewards program.
Yes, one of the aspects of Gamepass that is annoying for some is they'll offer base games and not the DLCs for some titles. (Also, the free gold games are usually shit.) It's one of the tradeoffs of a system that is mostly Pro, with a few Cons that seem designed in that are annoying, but business. Was anyone ever expecting games like Outer World to just be free through Gamepass DLCs and all no strings attached? We'd see more micro transaction models for sure, and more complaints. The good news is one can still just ignore Gamepass and buy Outer World like normal if they want (or with rewards redemtions).
So, yeah, you've revealed a flaw, or con in the system. I think at his point you're going harder at it than is really justified. It's a valid point, but being able to anticipate your responses ahead of time and how salty they're coming off is getting uninteresting and redundant. Especially when you can literally make enough rewards points to keep Gamepass current and buy occasional DLCs during most people's morning shits every day.
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spronk
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games currently "free" with EA play on xbox
2019 sports games - Madden, NBA, NFL, FIFA
Battlefield series (including 5)
Dead Space series
Anthem
Star Wars Battlefront 2
Titanfall 2 (& 1?)
Mass Effect Series
Mass Effect remastered though is rumored for end of Oct and wouldn't be part of EA Play for a year or so
2019 sports games - Madden, NBA, NFL, FIFA
Battlefield series (including 5)
Dead Space series
Anthem
Star Wars Battlefront 2
Titanfall 2 (& 1?)
Mass Effect Series
Mass Effect remastered though is rumored for end of Oct and wouldn't be part of EA Play for a year or so
Vorph
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Not EA Play specifically, but them going back to Steam and doing this deal with MS suggests to me that Origin at least isn't doing so well.
meStevo
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I see it as they've established their store, and returning to Steam expands it's reach further, because you still need Origin to play those games on Steam. They posted record annual profits in March, live services (in-game purchases, subscriptions, advertising) generate the majority of their profit now and moves like these only expand the reach.
Still need to make good games for that to matter, but objectively they do make games with a very wide appeal or with very popular IP.
Still need to make good games for that to matter, but objectively they do make games with a very wide appeal or with very popular IP.
Utnayan
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My main stay is that the service at full retail price per month/6 month is not worth it and a sham to seed mediocre 1st party games (A result of Gamepass in my opinion so MS can least common denominate develop) and 3rd party seeding for DLC and MTX is nothing more than a way to get people to pay for what is bordering on free to play games and my thought that it will get to that level of quality sooner rather than later. Unless you took advantage of the dollar buy out for 3 years, it isn't near worth it considering the quality of the games. (Outside of VERY select few that are on there)
Gamepass is becoming a dumpster fire full of mediocre shit with plenty of DLC and MTX not included to seed the market penetration for said game and nothing more. We have already seen the straight up decline of MS 1st party titles - hell, look at what is happening with Halo Infinite and that was their flagship. Smoke and mirrors in the form of value which truly doesn't exist as we go further down the rabbit whole of shit game releases under a GaaS model.'.
The latest with the DLC for Outer World's is hilarious because for $24.99 you get one single planet with about 5 hours of content and a whopping 10% off as a gamepass member. And as we all knew, Outer World's turned out to be a shell of a game too because "Gamepass".
And don't even get me started on the mediocrity of State of Decay 2 and Crackdown 3.
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Vorph
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Gorgon is 14.99, the 24.99 one is the expansion pass which will include the second/final DLC too. -10% off each for Game Pass subs.
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Ambiturner
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That's why people ignore Ut, he's a pathological liar who feels like he has to be edgy all the time
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Xerge
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He's changed his behavior a lot since the OG vanguard thread and he's deff. not wrong in the above post. Game Pass has some gems and it's worth it's fee for some, however there are games being developed with it solely in mind -- outer worlds breaks my heart
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Ambiturner
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No, it's worth the fee for everyone.
They'll never match the exclusives of Sony, but they don't seem to really be trying to. If you want a lot of quality games for low price you go Xbox, if you want the absolute best of the best games you go Playstation.
Your second point doesn't even make any sense. So what if games are being made with it solely in mind? How's that any kind of middle finger to the consumer?
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