Game Pass
 

So I finally tried Xbox Game Pass for the first time on my Xbox One and it's a pretty big library of games. Shredder's Revenge is one of them which I know is a game on the lower Core tier. You can install games onto your console or PC or you can play them instantly on the cloud. Unfortunately I couldn't get Xcloud to work for me.

This service apparently makes MS more money than selling a console. Some have even speculated that this may be the future of Xbox in a few more years.

I will admit since I'm not a huge Xbox fan, I feel the library could be better and it's really for those who want to try a few first party titles without having to buy the console since it's also in PC and other platforms.

Has anyone tried Game Pass and what are your thoughts?

I have it and have quite a few games downloaded on my consoles. Makes it easier than buying the games constantly.

I used it on PC when they had the $1 trials up for a month. Every month when I wanted to use it, I would just create a new username and sign up for a $1 trial, and when the trial ran out I did not renew my subscription which would have been full price. I then made another new account and did another $1 trial.

I did for about 3-4 years, especially when covid was going on and I was working from home I had a lot of free time. Played so many games for practically, "free."

It's pretty neat for the most part. My two main gripes are that I don't like when games leave the service but then come back later. Why? What's the point? I download these things and when I get around to playing I can't? It's really a pain when I'm in the middle of a game and it leaves. Great, now I have to wait. And I better wait and not do a complete uninstall for more space or else I'll have to restart. But by that time I'm too aggravated to do that, especially on a title that I've progressed about 3/4 of the way through or more. Just keep the damn games on the service.

Conversely, and more specifically, there's 2K. I could play any of their sports installments but not any of the WWE games? Why? If it's a multiplayer issue where they don't want to maintain a server, can't they just disable it? Or do their WWE games make too much money for them to offer to play for almost free?

I guess that's all just a reason for me to buy an actual copy, which probably makes some sense since Game Pass is like a glorified rental service.