I’ll be amused if Blade is just as far along as the next Mass Effect was.

“Congratulations on choosing a name for the game that was announced in 2018. Over eight years ago. Well done.”

I have played…Halo. Via the MCC, not the original.

Sadly I’ve only been on Team Green for a couple years and was not there for these titles!

*bear with us, FYI

@RTGX That’s what happens when people who actually want to make a profit have control of a company.

You know…the whole reason a company exists. It’s not a charity or a therapy session. They make products that are supposed to make a profit.

BioWare failed for over a decade at this, and consequences finally caught up with them.

Call me crazy, but I think it was the three failures in a row that caused EA to ditch BioWare (or rather, the entity wearing the BioWare name like a skin suit) and not EA’s new ownership.

Money talks. Bad games walk.

@FraserG Fantastic, thank you! I have the game for PS5 (lodged in the backlog) but given how much I’ve soured on Sony since July 1st, I’d like to give the Team Green version a shot and see how it performs!

Never done a free trial on Xbox. Does the trial start when you first launch it, or when you download it?

@BigMike22 Fair point. But its not like she couldn't have mentioned it as a success so far if it was, even if it wasn't specifically part of that covered time period.

@cronogold Yeah, I have zero interest in playing the game myself, but I really want concrete evidence that it “runs best” on PS5.

@IronCrow86 It causes me physical pain to defend anything PS related after July 1st, but they are saying that the PS5 is the “best way to play” GTA6 if memory serves. Maybe they’re referring to the Pro, but I don’t think so.

I do look forward to Digitsl Foundry sinking their teeth into it.

Interesting that she didn’t tout Eday’s success.

Hm.

Buy the IP, and let NO ONE who was employed at BioWare at the end touch it. Especially anyone involved in Veilguard.

Give it to Archetype Entertainment.

“Noooooo, don’t make us come into the office where people can actually see whether we’re working or not!!!”

Finally put out of its misery.

@Sindayl I think it’s meant to be. I didn’t have an OG XBox but wasn’t it a dome style button on the original controller? They might be mimicking that original look.

@strzelec I sincerely doubt she’d give me one…but then again, you miss 100% of the shots you don’t attempt I guess!

@FraserG Thanks! Now I’m kind of disappointed my Horizon 6 controller didn’t get me one, dang it.

@TDHorizon You were able to score one of the consoles? Nice! If they’d released something like this before the insane price skyrockets, I’d have definitely tried for one.

@FraserG Happen to know which controllers? I’m relatively new to the XBox ecosystem and didn’t know this was a thing!

Mine’s waiting for me at Best Buy after work, and it’ll be right next to my Horizon 6 controller.

Never thought I’d be excited to have a piece of XBox hardware as someone who shunned MS for years, but that’s the universe we live in now!

See what you’ve done, Sony? YOU MADE ME LIKE AND SUPPORT MS!

Now if only Squeenix and Bandai Namco would get with the program.

@TheSimulator Congrats. If you have a spare grand or more to toss into the fire, I’m happy for you.

Have a high-capacity Blu-ray drive in the next console while still releasing new games on disc.

Don’t release a new console that costs over $1000.

You do those two things and I’ll stick with you, XBox. I’m done with Sony.

@BAMozzy that’s a lot of words for “I am unable to see or imagine your perspective.”

@M20B25 I am reliably informed that, as an older game that many others have played, you’d have already played that and as such wouldn’t be interested! XD

@BAMozzy That’s the funny thing about this functionality. You see it one way, I see it another. MS turned their original painful kneecapping at the PS4/XBone reveal into a major advantage and someone like me is now VERY disposed to buying more used games to add to his library, physical and digital.

Not everyone is a shut-in allergic to going to stores, and some of us like actually having the disc AND the digital as well.

Well, I expect GameStop’s shelves to become bare of green game cases in the near future.

Finally! Registered all my discs. Just my Bandai Namco and Square Enix games don’t work, as well as a couple of $1 sports games and Dead Rising 3. Haven’t tried the Forza Horizon games yet, I hope those get added.

@beltmenot I own it. I’ve played it.

It very much is that bad.

The only reason I’d want a sequel to this borefest is to watch people demolish it while streaming.

….Sony and MS dueling for most anti-consumer tactics, if this ever sees the light of day in a game I paid real money for.

@GamingGod Reread my comment knowing that I am now a “screw Sony” guy after being a PS player since the original.

MS solidly moving back to digital would be the DRAW for people like me with money to spend and games to buy.

Doing the anti-Sony and still using actual discs with the actual game on them.

That would make me jump to team green and not look back.

I mean…I’m pretty much halfway there as it is.

@somnambulance Interesting the effects one company’s horrible decisions can have on your purchasing habits, isn’t it?

Sony has made me VERY aware of how ephemeral all this is.

Oh, Jason Schreier?

Someone hand me a couple of ginormous salt grains to take with anything he says these days.

@somnambulance I’m still buying PS5 discs because by god I have a PS5 Pro and I’m gonna take advantage of it for now!

But my focus is definitely moving towards Switch 2 first and PS5 Pro when enhanced, or Series X otherwise (and if the S2 version is a GKC, of course).

@NORTHERN_beat cries

You know, it’s funny. A year ago I was saying my series X was my first and also last XBox.

Now my PS5 Pro will be my last PS, and my Series X just might be the first but not last, with Sony continually shooting themselves in the privates and MS doing things like this.

What a difference!

@Martsmall I refer you to my original “if I’d known” comment.

Hindsight is 20/20 and I’m already aware NOW, as I stated.

@Martsmall Oh, I ABSOLUTELY joined just for this feature, it’s the only one I cared about.

If I’d known you didn’t get access to the good stuff without being a member for so long, I wouldn’t have bothered. But supposedly this is rolled out to ALL insiders as of earlier in the week, and I just…don’t have it.

@abe_hikura The program just came into existence, and they might have just held off with some of the larger third-party publishers while they made sure others worked. No one expected this to be flawless or include every game at launch, MS was very clear about that.

sighs in still-no-access-even-though-I’m-an-insider

The Sony self-humiliation ritual continues.

@DesertRanger Happy for you. I’m on Omega, and even though it came to Omega I’m one of the schlubs who just isn’t worthy. >.<

@Topov81 I think Sony is just waiting for things to blow over.

Too little too late, they’re dead to me after Jan 2028, and dead to me right now for anything not disc-based.

@Topov81 Sadly I don’t think Sony puts unique identifiers in their PS4/5 discs, so a program like this isn’t really possible. Wish it was, though.

Who knew that MS’s misstep back at the XBone announcement would end up becoming a delayed win?

Sure would be nice if I’d get this update…sadly I seem to be one of the insiders who doesn’t get to enjoy this yet.

OoT remake > GTA6.

I will not be taking questions.

…why would I NOT claim every game I own on disc? I only have one Xbox, I’m the only one who uses it.

I can stash my green-case games in a box (except for the non-participating publishers, bleh) and save some shelf space AND still play them. And properly own them.

Guess I should have signed up to be an Insider a long time ago. This is a feature I definitely want to try out soon.

@BanthaPooDoo It very well could be. But “here, watch me play this game within this carefully curated area!” is so telling.

Less than three months before release.