Poll: How Many Games Have You Bought Because Of Xbox Free Play Days?

I consider this technique similar to upselling. Get the customer using gamepass and then bombard them to buy more and more…

I've never bothered with it. I'm very picky about what games I buy and play nowadays. I did buy Persona 3 and 4 today though even though I'm grinding reward points for free game pass ultimate because I've already put 70 hours into Persona 3 and wanted to own it seeing as I previously owned it for ps2 and was enjoying playing it again. Been starved for games like that on Xbox lol.

@AlwaysPlaying But you don’t even have to have GamePass to play these.

Funnily enough I've bought games because of gamepass (I don't tend to stay subscribed for too long) but I've never really been swayed by any of the free play days!

Zero, haven't even played one during free weekends.

When Sunset Overdrive was given its original free play days, on a lark I gave it a go. I spent less than an hour in it before I backed out of the game to immediately make the full digital purchase. I don't know who I'd be today if I missed out on this game.

Weirdly freeplay days seems to be benefitting ubisoft for me.

I wasn't "sold" on farcry 6 or Valhalla but when those free trials ended I wanted to continue.

When looking at the impact game trials have on switch sales, I think that impact is pretty big.

Uno for instance was on the top of the sellers list for over a week right after the game trial ran out. And that happens more often. The game trial was combined with a discount though.

I do not often make use of the free trials Xbox provides though… probably because it is on a weekly schedule. I just forget it exists due to that.

Perhaps it's not 100% convenient because you're busy with other stuff or other games but it's free. On Switch, when you subscribe to their wonderful online service, you can try a couple of old third-party games 🤣.

I haven’t bought anything from the free to play days. All the games that have been featured on there, I only used it once. I don’t really try them out because I like to take my time when playing games. So I don’t want to get hooked because I’m also really frugal. There’s only a few games I pay full price for. The rest I wait for sales.

Well Free Play Days gave me a zero investment opportunity to try out that new Saints Row game. It wasn't as terrible as I expected it to be (that's not to say it was great) but I will probably pick up on sale at the right price. I would've avoided it entirely otherwise. So there's that I guess.

I personally don’t care about free play days. Never, ever, played any of the games and usually phase out any article that talks about games doing that.

If I have any interest on a game, I buy it (or play it in game pass if it’s there… and then buy it if I liked it.)

I’ve never even played a game during free play days 🤷🏼‍♂️

@awp69 good point! You do get a discount with GamePass if you want to buy…

I love it, underused programme in my opinion.
As long as they keep on putting divisive titles on it, I won't feel obliged to buy them but I can try them comfortably knowing I'll probably get to judge them well.

One, I think, overwatch 1.

Actually quite a few , like the service, it's like an extended trial, but often when i like a free play game i don't rush and buy the game direct after the weekend, i wait for a really good store deal, and then purchase it , the cloudsave remains so progress is always stored

Played Steamworld Dig 2 during one of the free play weekends. Bought it afterwards. That's the only time I've done that so far, but that's mostly because I'm trying to spend my time playing the games I've already paid for.

I already have enough games in-process at a time, I don't need to pile on more even faster lmao

im always trying out the free play days games for rewards achievements i have never bought any though

I think its a useful service and I appreciate it. Whilst it hasnt led me to buy, checking out something like the recent NFS had potential for me to spend as a result.

@Banjo- The last one was first party, the glorious Snipperclips!

@FredBiletnikoff Well, actually, it was developed by a third party. Nintendon't let you try their important games, not even paying.

I play some of the free trials on switch, however when I have Gamepass with a library of 200+ games to play I never even bother to try free play days

@Banjo- I finished Nintendo golf game on trials

None as I rarely if ever buy games on Xbox these days just primarily use Gamepass then maybe pick up an older game when a deal is on that's incredibly low.

I never bother with the Free Play days but I don't think I am the 'target' for these. I think its more targeting those without ANY Subscription and/or trying to add some more Value to Gold itself. Not just 'free' games and online access, but also some 'free play days' too.

As a Game Pass Subscriber, its utility is somewhat redundant - chances are, there is something 'new' to play on GP and/or already own whatever games I want to play. Therefore, the likelihood of them offering a free play weekend of a Game I really want to play but not yet got round to is extremely limited - hence I think its more targeted to newcomers, to those not yet subbed to Gold and Gold only Subscribers...

It's exceptionally rare that I don't already have the games available to be played free for a weekend. So if anything, they're taking influence from me...

Before I had stable, fast internet, downloading a "free play days" game on Steam/PS Store/Xbox would take a long time. When I finally had time to play, it would be on the final day. Therefore, I couldn't enjoy it. Now that I have fast, stable internet, this habit of just saying "Meh" to these games has stuck with me.

I never used it.
I feel it's annoying to use it.
You have to download the game, fast.
Then you have to play the game in a hurry.
This not seems enjoyable to me