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404notfound posted:Game Pass is great. Agreed. I've had my Xbox One S since Feb of 2019, and unfortunately had like 5 months of Game Pass that ended up wasting away due having to move and stuff. I only had a chance to play Rise of the Tomb Raider on it, but that was fun. I recently added Game Pass Ultimate again with my stockpile of Microsoft Reward points, and then added 12-month EA Play codes for ~$20 (that converts to 4 months of Game Pass Ultimate) to get a year+ subscription. Been playing through Nier Automata for the first time; finished up Route A a few days ago and am currently making my way through Route B. Game is fun is hell and yeah, seeing all the new content added to Game Pass now that it has EA Play games is crazy. Such insane value.
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I started my playthrough of Shadow of the Tomb Raider shortly before I had to move, but by the time I was able to settle in and start playing it again, it had already left Game Pass. That was a bummer, but I just picked up the definitive edition of the game yesterday for $9.85 using a $5 credit balance Microsoft gifted me and another 10% off the sale price using my Cash Card boost 
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Nov 22, 2020 23:59
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Barudak posted:As a general reminder Game Pass Ultimate comes with xbox live gold included so if you'd like to "own" 4 very middling/old as hell games a month* its cheaper than buying game pass and gold separately. As an aside, the cheapest conversion I've seen to stock up on Game Pass Ultimate is to buy 12-month EA Play codes for Xbox here: https://www.shopto.net/en/dwnld37378-ea-access-12-month-subscription-p180020/ for $21.91, which when redeemed converts to 4 months of Game Pass Ultimate. That's roughly $4.38 a month for Game Pass Ultimate. Unsure of how much it'll stack, as I only bought two codes, which was enough to put my subscription at just over a year in combination with the months I already had.
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Nov 23, 2020 04:25
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EL BROMANCE posted:That looks a bit more expensive than just buying 12mo gold cards from Amazon or CDKeys for $60, I know CDK didn’t charge me tax on that as well. Does Xbox Live Gold convert 1:1 to Game Pass still? I thought I read somewhere it changed to 3:1 now, which is why I went the EA Play route. Also Shopit didn't charge tax for my orders.
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Nov 23, 2020 05:08
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EL BROMANCE posted:Yeah did 1:1 for me, just double checked and mine renews 12/9/2022. Sweet, good to know 
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Nov 23, 2020 07:12
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Zat posted:Just to avoid any confusion, the 1:1 conversion only happens if you don't have an active Ultimate sub at the moment. You first redeem your Gold code(s) and then subscribe to Ultimate (probably have to pay the full price for a single month) to convert them into Ultimate. Ooooh. So that's why I read some folk were letting their Ultimate sub expire first before doing the XBL Gold conversion. Ok. That makes sense.
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Nov 23, 2020 14:43
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Being relatively new to the whole Xbox thing, I think my plan right now is to just stick with my One S since I can't justify buying a new console right now. I've had my One S for less than 2 years anyways, and have only recently really started to actually play games on it lol. I'll just wait for the inevitable system revisions. I wonder what the naming scheme for those will be
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Nov 23, 2020 19:19
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I feel like for the casual-ish gamer like myself, exclusives aren't that big of a deal/are dealbreakers wrt console purchasing. I think Xbox's greatest draw is Game Pass anyways. Doesn't seem like any other service can match its value. I just wonder if Microsoft is eventually going to just ditch the hardware game and focus on xCloud.
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Nov 26, 2020 19:57
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WattsvilleBlues posted:I really hope not, I just bought it a few days ago on the Black Friday sales in the Microsoft Store. I should have known of course, I've developed a habit of buying games that end up on Game Pass within a month. Yeah, back when I got my One S in early 2019, I was kinda blown away that they had Shadow of the Tomb Raider on Game Pass lol. After seeing that, I resorted to only buying games either if they have a steep discount or are an older classic title I want to own. It's why I'm also debating purchasing CB2077 since it'll probably end up on Game Pass eventually, and I have a huge backlog of games already on Game Pass and Steam that I want to play through.
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Nov 29, 2020 21:36
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Quantum of Phallus posted:I got SotTR for about 50% off a week after it came out on PS4, I think it tanked sales-wise Seems like it wasn't as well received as the first two. I picked up the Definitive Edition this past weekend for ~$9 since it's not on Game Pass anymore.
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Nov 29, 2020 21:38
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American McGay posted:Small brain: buying games new for $70 I've only paid ~$4/month for my Game Pass Ultimate subscription.  Been getting pretty good mileage out of Game Pass, since it currently has games I've been itching to play that I don't have on Steam. Currently going through Route B in Nier, and plan to play Fallen Order after that before I do the other Nier routes. I've also played a fair bit of Streets of Rage 4 and Tetris Effect. Might start Ori depending on how much I enjoy Fallen Order. I also like doing all the Game Pass quests for Reward Points
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Nov 29, 2020 22:02
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Yeah, having seen EA Play was coming to GPU, my plan was to buy a year's worth subscription of GPU as a buffer for me to earn enough reward points to indefinitely extend my subscription through reward points only. So far so good! I've already added 4 months of GPU to my sub through reward points and will probably max out the 3 years soon at the rate I'm doing all the dailies/quests/etc.
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Nov 29, 2020 22:26
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FunOne posted:I still don't understand how you generate enough rewards points to ever pay for a month, much less an ongoing subscription. I was sitting on ~42k points I made in like 3-4 months? And then stopped doing rewards for about a year up until just a few weeks ago. I've made 15k points in a little less than 3 weeks doing the bing dailies and game pass quests. Bing dailies when you're level 2 always nets 270 points each day (sometimes more depending on any extra quizzes/bonus email points or whatever). Completing various punch cards can net 50 to 1000+ points, depending on the tasks. You can also get 60 points every day from opening the game pass mobile app (5 points), playing any game pass game (5 points), and earning an achievement in whatever game (50 points). There's also the game pass quest streak bonus thing that maxed out gives a bunch of points (not sure how much). It all adds up, but it's a fair bit tedious. I don't mind it though. 3 months of Xbox Live Gold costs 20k points, and I believe 3 month Gold codes converts to 2 months of GPU. I'll probably average around 20k points a month, maybe more maybe less. teagone fucked around with this message at 03:00 on Nov 30, 2020 |
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MarcusSA posted:I’ll just pay the 14.99 or whatever. A lot of people do! I don't blame them. $14.99 is cheap and convenient for basically Netflix for games. There are ways to get GPU cheaper or for free, but yeah, most people would rather not bother I'm sure. [edit] Twerk from Home posted:You’re well into hobby territory if you max out the Bing daily tasks and always keep a streak going, and getting an achievement every day also takes some thinking. Daily bing searches are a breeze if you just do images searches. You don't even have to type since bing spits out a bunch of search suggestions for you to just click/tap on based on the first search term you input. I'd say it takes me no more than 5 minutes each day to get the 270 bing points. The 50 point achievement thing isn't something I'm actively always trying to get, personally. I usually just let that one come naturally when I'm playing whatever game I feel like. [edit 2] I also get the 10 points every day for logging into the game pass app/launching an xCloud game just on my phone (don't have to play it). teagone fucked around with this message at 03:33 on Nov 30, 2020 |
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Nov 30, 2020 03:26
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Moey posted:I was happy to max out my XBL Gold subscription then convert the 3 years into GPU for a dollar. This is the cheapest route, yeah. I already used my $1 upgrade back in 2019 but I didn't know about maxing out an XBL Gold sub back then before converting. When I tried it this year, I had to pay $15 to convert my XBL Gold code, which still isn't too bad!
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Nov 30, 2020 03:34
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How long will the EA Play library be on game pass? Is it indefinite?
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I'm ~30+ hours deep into Nier Automata (doing all the side quests). The combat in this game is so fun 
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GuyonthecoucH posted:I got all the main endings to this on pc but I find myself starting over on the series x since it just runs so much better on it. Also picked up Metal Gear Rising: Revengence as a Platinum Games follow up and it's so drat good Nier runs surprisingly well on the One S, but I attribute that to the lack of AA and lower graphics settings in general. It'd run/look way better on my gaming PC (i7 4770, GTX 1660 Ti), but it's not on Game Pass for PC so  Still though, the gameplay is yeah, it's drat good and so much fun. I love the music too, and the art direction. Looking forward to the Replicant remaster. And I'm pretty sure I have Revengeance on Steam; maybe I'll give that a whirl after too if I don't find Fallen Order's combat as fun.
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Cojawfee posted:Did microsoft rewards remove gamepass ultimate? I only see xbox live gold and PC gamepass on the rewards page. It's out of stock, yeah. It'll come back up eventually. Related: 150 point punch card for clicking a few links every day for the next 5 days - https://account.microsoft.com/rewards/dashboard/ENUS_pcparent_Holiday_punchcard Also, this month there is a fatty 2000 point punch card in the Xbox rewards app that doesn't require much, and a 500 point Game Pass holiday quest punch card as well. And don't forget your free 100 point treasure too!
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punk rebel ecks posted:It seems that Gamepass really ate into DMCV's Xbox One sales. I wonder how much MS paid to have DMCV available on Game Pass. You think it would be enough to offset the difference in potential sales numbers?
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Just reminding everyone there's a bunch of MS rewards points in the Xbox/Game pass apps. Already notched a little over 4k points this month.
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Dec 3, 2020 23:24
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Halo always seemed lame to me.
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Dec 4, 2020 18:35
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The wifi on a vanilla PS4 isn't even 5GHz right? Lol.
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Dec 4, 2020 23:24
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Real hurthling! posted:Its not the wifi only, ps4pro has 5g wireless and still takes way too long to grab stuff and a wired up ps4 is still slow as hell too even bypassing the garbage wifi I'd assume maybe the SSD write speeds helps with the PS5's download performance, no? Coupled with wifi 6 speeds.
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Dec 4, 2020 23:26
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If you buy $10 worth of Duracell Optimum batteries, you can get a 2-week code of Game Pass Ultimate. 12-pack of Duracell Optimum is $10.48 on Amazon atm.
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Dec 10, 2020 00:30
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Celexi posted:I believe you can only use those codes if you never been a subscriber I bought a pack and added the code to my existing subscription no problem. I printed out the receipt from Amazon and uploaded a photo of it to their promo site and got approved for a code in a few hours.
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Dec 10, 2020 00:31
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Twerk from Home posted:The series controllers are a little bit too small for my hands and uncomfortable. This generation is going to be the first one ever where the Sony controllers fit my hands better. I have big hands and was going to pick up a Series controller on sale during BF/Cyber Monday for $39 but I kept reading it's a fair bit smaller than the Xbox One controllers which are like a perfect fit for me so I held off. The Xbox One and Xbox 360 controllers are like the perfect gaming pads imo. I still have a coupled wired 360 controllers I use for my PC.
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Dec 10, 2020 02:07
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Hmm, weird how many posts I read saying it was significantly smaller elsewhere online and not as good for people with big hands compared to the Xbox One controller. I'll pick one up the next time they go on sale again to see for myself. [edit] I guess for reference of how big my hands are, I can palm a regulation size basketball no problem.
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Lol. Sorry, but those images made me laugh.
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BonoMan posted:Oh my god Cyberpunk is just so loving bland and boring. Holy poo poo. I've been watching a streamer play it and it took him a little over 5 hours just to get to the title card. Watching him play through that "prologue" was an absolute slog, but once he made it to the "Cyberpunk 2077" title drop, things got a bit more interesting. Still though, lmao.
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Lammasu posted:One of the reasons I was originally reluctant to get Game Pass was because I was afraid I would be overwhelmed by the choices and end up not finishing any game. That's kind of what happened. I'm still glad I got it because it introduced me to stuff like Slay the Spire but I'm playing something then getting tired of it and quieting and I HATE that. So I've decided to knuckle down and play the Yakuza series. One thing I did was make an 'On Deck' group and pin games I want to play through and finish or farm achievements from to it. I only have a handful of games in the group, like 4 or 5; gives a sort of tunnel vision effect, as I don't really browse the Game Pass library unless something new is added that I have an interest in. Once I finish a game, I unpin it.
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strange feelings re Daisy posted:EA Play was supposed to become free for PC Gamepass owners today but instead it's been delayed until 2021. It's weird they waited until release day to make this decision. Some people are pretty mad. The only game I want from that service is Jedi: Fallen Order and I'm plenty busy with other games now so I don't care so much. Well this is annoying. I wanted to play Fallen Order on my PC this week since it doesn't run all that great on my One S. I wonder what the issue is? I thought it would've been a matter of just ensuring EA/Microsoft accounts were linked in the EA Play desktop client or something.
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Twerk from Home posted:Do you have it on an SSD? I meant to loop back after I finished Jedi: Fallen Order. It's more so that I want to play the game at higher than 20-30 FPS. It was installed on the 1TB spinner inside the One S.
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Real hurthling! posted:https://twitter.com/CardySimon/status/1339738799732117505?s=20 Lol, that's funny.
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I wonder if Microsoft is still working on an xCloud streaming-only Xbox that was rumored a couple years ago, because I'd be keen to buy that over a Series X/S to replace my One S, personally.
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Real hurthling! posted:They will be on smart tvs next year Oh interesting! Game Pass app for Roku would be cool.
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Lammasu posted:This is kind of embarrassing but my Twitter fu is weak. The three things I use it for are updating my dad on the crazy stuff Trump says, looking at crazy conspiracy pictures, and keeping up with porn stars I like. So is their any method as to when Wario64 updates? I usually only check my Twitter once a day so do I just have to adjust to keeping a constant eye on it? Go to Wario64's twitter profile, and next to where it says 'following' you can click on the bell icon and set to have notifications sent for all of the tweets they send out.
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I bought Nier Automata on sale for ~$14 in the event it goes off Game Pass soon. I see that it's Xbox One X enhanced. In the event I pick up a Series X|S or whatever equivalent in the next few years, does that mean I can eventually run the game at 4k60 or like 1440p120?
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Stux posted:one x enhancements are only on the series x, series s runs base xbone versions of bc games
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