Microsoft certainly got a lot of Xbox fans' hopes up yesterday when it emerged that every single game and movie had been added to Xbox Game Pass... but of course, that's not exactly what happened!
Fans started noticing this and quickly took to social media to start detailing their findings, questioning what was going on and pointing out that ultimately, they couldn't download any of the 'new' additions:
The culprit simply appears to be an Xbox Store glitch, which Microsoft hasn't publicly acknowledged at the time of writing. It's a nice dream, but the idea of every game joining Game Pass is certainly too good to be true...
Have you noticed this on the Microsoft Store? Let us know down in the comments below.
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I was just on last night wondering why all the games in my wish list said “included with game pass” instead of displaying the price! Had to go into each game to see the price instead of skimming through quickly, WHICH BTW Microsoft is VERY annoying because each time you come out of a game on your wish list you’re forced back to the beginning of the list!
@Trainer or zero response from your input at all- I thought my controller was gone. Lol 😂 this explains it
@joey302
I love everything about my Xbox Series X (coming over from PS4) but dear God, the store and how you buy games (or actually can't do that with the app) is far from ideal. That's putting it mildly.
@gollumb82 It's all relative. I don't have a PS4, but coming from the PS3 store and the Switch eShop I'd say the Xbox store (on the console at least) seems like perfection compared to those two! Although, I'll admit not being able to buy something through the app is pretty frustrating sometimes.
That, with no price increase, would make me join Ultimate. In other words, not happening.
I have had two issues with the new store, on Series X and S:
1) When you are browsing the store and see the 'Box art' tiles and move across to the next game to look at the details it still displays the previous games name and info. This happens frequently.
2) After browsing multiple games the store just crashes and sends me back to the home dashboard page. This happens most of the time when I've clocked on and browsed details on a lot of games.
@dmcc0
I know and I respect that. I prefer buying my games via smartphone so I can focus on gaming instead of browsing the store on the console. Using the browser to do that is a pain. I don't get why they won't let us buy games with the app. Sony's app works great in that respect.
@Trainer Admittedly I haven't done much general browsing of the store; tends to be just looking for specific stuff or through the sales items etc, but I did notice that when you filter by Genre it does just show the most popular in those categories. I guess neither store does "browsing" that well; maybe understandable given the number of games in each store. Same example on the eShop would probably give you hundreds of shovelware titles to browse through really slowly until you eventually find something interesting/get bored of scrolling.
@gollumb82 Yeah, it would be way more convenient. From what I've read, the previous version let you buy via the app so makes it an even stranger decision.
The entire system would just die if it was a real thing, so it's probably good it isn't. Never mind this, they need to focus on fixing the now abysmal Xbox app. You used to be able to browse games, gamers core, compare achievements, even buy games but now you can't do any of the above since the last update. Its just plain awful.
@gollumb82 yea there’s definitely room for improvement! At least they have a wishlist which Sony doesn’t 🤷♂️
Game Pass.
It Only Includes Everything.
@gollumb82 Yeah, I used to do all my buying on the app, too. Kills me they removed it. It was broken in the old app since June, too. I assume it has something to do with Apple's deep cuts, and Game Pass/streaming somehow. It's a strange thing to remove the feature while the competitor has the feature, and MS's had the better implementation of the feature before. Either not many people were using it by the statistics or there's some angle regarding app store monetization they're sidestepping that Sony doesn't have to for some reason.
missing out on all of the free games sucks.
You'd think Microsoft would be better at this, the store can be pretty bad for navigating and quite a few of the backwards compatible games aren't even in it and have to be bought from the web page, just why?
I've also just started using Gamepass on PC and can't believe how bad the Xbox app is on there. Its a shame they didn't make the operating system as well to make compatibility easier. Anyway I downloaded a few games, started Alien Isolation to get stuck in a loading loop and had to reboot my PC, next I'll try Sea of Thieves, splash screen then instantly closes. Spent an hour searching through fixes and trying them until one that worked, seriously how does a Microsoft game not just work on Windows? I certainly won't be buying any games for their platform
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