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After the recent changes to gamepass that have made it so Ultimate members get less games each month I'm not expecting much else other than Indi next month. We got 9 games on gamepass last year in December, this year I bet you we get 3 for ultimate, the rest will be games already on gamepass being moved over to gamepass standard.

I agree 100% with the PureXbox review giving the game 4/10. It's in a really rough state perfoamnce wise with lots of pop in with the vegetation. Enemies don't populate the world; they spawn in behind you over and over again. Every single point of interest looks abandoned until you enter which triggers something to start spawning either dogs or bandits etc. It's simply not a very fun game in it's current state the world feels so empty and devoid of life compared to the previous game.

So despite the game being on gamepass more people opted to buy the game for PC & Playstation.

Looks like the gamepass effect everyone was hoping for isn't coming to fruition. PC and Playstation gamers don't care about gamepass and it is not changing or affecting their purchase behavior, unlike on Xbox where sales dropped.

The comments about the game being "perfectly fine", "no bugs at all" are always hilarious to see. Literally every, single , review complains about performance and bugs. Everyone that doesn't have green tinted glasses stuck on their face are talking about bugs and performance and lack of A Life 2.0 but you must have gotten a completely different version of the game than everyone else, right? 🤣🤣

Might want to update the article with the bit of information you omitted from this story. It wasn't just these 7 games, a total of 115524 other games recieved updates on Steam. In other words, this article and news is a giant nothingburger.

The original post has also been marked as false over on /GamingLeaksAndRumours

Microsoft dropped the ball big time this week. Two disastrous game launches back to back between MSFS 2024 and now Stalker 2.

Translation: We didn't bother to have a new Fallout game ready because Fallout 76 and Fallout Shelters is filled with microtransactions we want to sell.

This looks terrible. The exact same takedown animation over and over again during that stealth gameplay was hilarious to watch this game is going to be janky like no tomorrow.

Maybe these devs should focus on the gameplay instead of graphics, not that these are exactly cutting edge, there are last gen games that look much better than this.

Wow look how extensive that list is of games we got last December. With the recent changes to gamepass I bet you we won't see nearly as many additions next month, we will be lucky to get 3 games on Ultimate.

It's a good thing Microsoft raised the price of gamepass, with the games we are being offered Microsoft made more money this month from gamepass than any month before. 10+ titles including multiple AAA games are leaving the service while only a single indie game is joining it for the next 2 weeks on console. Microsoft has taken our money and straight pocketed it this month.

Thanks Microsoft.

The consensus online about this is that Microsoft wants the launch player numbers to be as high as possible instead of a staggered launched where alot of people that only want to play campaign play it early and then don't come back when the multiplayer launches.

They should have a beta for Zombies too honestly.

Free to play? Good thing Microsoft paid a bunch of money to have a free to play game on gamepass.

Microsoft will make it happen alright, a cease & desist coming right up.

Sea of thieves also lost over 60% of it's playerbase on PS5 within a month. I wonder how pleased they are about that.

Didn't Xbox give this developer a bunch of money for not only gamepass releases of Ark and it's remaster but also invested in the development of their next game? You would think they would have taken the time to optimize the Xbox version a bit better.

Dedicated servers should have been there from day one for Xbox & PC gamepass players, not six months later.

Definitely worth subscribing to Ubisoft+ for a month to play.

@Sol4ris You're ignoring the part where Microsoft acquired two major publishers and slew of developers and IPs over just the last what, 5 years? Not very hard to make "your" games sought after when they are established franchises that exist already on Playstation.

Will play it when it inevitably releases on gamepass. After watching gameplay and overviews of what the game has to offer I wouldn't spend $30 on it, maybe $10.

Anyways I just bought the Endwalker + Shadowbringers expansion for ffxiv online for $20 so I will be busy with that for a few months now.

@y2jarmyofficial wrong. It's #31 after being at #24 earlier this week. Both of Xbox's most played games for both Canada and USA have Hellblade at #31 you can check each region simply by changing part of the url. en_ca for Canada's list and en_us for the usa list. You can also check the UK list by changing it to en_gb, which it's currently sitting at #27 there. Anyone can check this, i don't know why you are trying to lie.

Zenimax Asia is being shut down at the end of June. This sounds like a bunch of hyperbole to me.

Should have delivered a fun game, now you're out of a job.

Great, so when gamepass gets a price hike everyone will be paying extra whether they play CoD or not. Wonderful.

Looks like it's going to be a lot of fun to play. You almost feel bad for indie games like Hypercharge Unboxed when they've got to go up against games like this, and they think people will pay $30 for it when this is free. Lol

It's a shame Hellblade 2 never found it's audience. The game debuted at #23 on Xbox's most played games list and only managed a peak of around 4000 players on Steam. I thought there was more hype surrounding this title but apparently not.

Guess the pre orders weren't very good if the game is already on sale. Not very surprising given the game is dead on PC & Switch. Why they thought porting it to Xbox would help without it being on gamepass is a mystery to me.

Now you've got Marvel Rivals on the horizon, a free to play shooter that will outshine Hypercharge Unboxed.

Hypecharge unboxed is available today! 51 player in-game lmao

This game has been dead on PC and presumably Switch for a long time now. Steam shows they never amassed much of a playerbase, peaking at 1,600 concurrent players. I'll check it out when it inevitably comes to gamepass because nobody bought it on Xbox either.

I love how this game has been out for years on Steam and the most players they amassed at one time was 1,641 players and there is only 50 people online playing it right now.

Why they spent the time making a Xbox port is beyond me. Why they didn't get their game onto gamepass to actually give it a chance at life is also a huge mystery.

The game has been out for how long on Steam and their best concurrent player count is just above 1k players.

Yeah, dead on arrival without gamepass and the spotlight that would have shined on the game.

I basically played nothing but GTA V for months after it came out and have sunk literally thousands of hours into the online and I can't wait to do it all over again in GTA VI and it's online.

I highly advise against claiming the starter edition of FFXIV until you have sunk a decent amount of time into the free trial. Once you claim that starter edition you will have 30 days to play before you have to pay for the FFXIV online subscription aswell as gamepass.

I truly hope Microsoft and Square can work something out to make this playable without needing any tier of gamepass.

@InterceptorAlpha I disagree. I subscribed at the end of December to ubisoft+ and played through / finished the Avatar game along with most of the achievements then played through / finished the new Prince of Persia and most achievements. In the middle of this I also played 1/4 or more of Assasins Creed Mirage and raced a few dozen races in The Crew Motorfest all before my subscription was up.

Now on the release of Skull & Bones I have subscribed again and will play S&B, finish AC Mirage, dive back into Division 2 with the new major overhaul with TU20 and all DLC included. That's another thing I like about the service, these games are the ultimate editions with extra content.

Sure these games are on sale a few months down the road but for $40 I have played through alot of content and didn't have to wait for them to become dirt cheap.

@InterceptorAlpha they said alot about Craftopia as well. Still no dedicated servers or crossplay with steam for gamepass versions of the game. I don't trust the Pocket Pair, they have abandoned games in the past and never delivered on their promises.

I started the game but I don't want to progress to far only to have to start over again if / when dedicated servers become a thing on Xbox. I'm not putting all my eggs into one basket banking on my single player save data transferring over to official servers. Would much rather be in a server full of people right from the start.

After looking into this Developer's previous game, Craftopia, I discovered crossplay was promised but never delivered, same for dedicated servers for Xbox. (

This doesn't give me much hope that I will ever get to play this game on server full of people. Four player coop with no matchmaking is archaic.

@InterceptorAlpha I'm only interested in playing this game if I can join a server full of people to play it with. That's why my hype has been smothered. I thought there was going to be official dedicated servers but evidently not. No interest in playing something like this by myself.

Unfortunately dedicated server will not be available on Xbox at launch so console players only get the 4 player coop session.

Personally this has taken alot of the wind out of the sails for my hype of this game. I don't want to play offline / friends only just to have to start over again when there are actual servers to play on.

@Gollum the first game runs at 60fps on ps5 now in the re-release they did for Switch and Playstation. So strange to release a new port for newer systems and not Xbox & no fps boost for the existing 360 version.

Just in time for it to be added to gamepass in two - three months.

@Kaloudz next week. Microsoft announced the first batch of games last year on the the 10th, the second Tuesday of January last year.

I wonder how widespread this issue is. BG3 shot up Xbox's most played list and has stayed on it since release so there's certainly alot of people still playing with this bug around.

I can wait for it to be on gamepass. Just subscribed to Ubisoft+ so I've got Avatar and ac mirage to play while waiting for January's gamepass additions and I'll also be able to play the new Prince of Persia game next month before my Ubisoft+ runs out.

This game would have been the perfect day one gamepass game. Oh well, I can wait.

You made a big game, so it shouldn't be on gamepass?

Sounds like the CEO is trying to say we should buy the game pre owned instead. Y'know, fair price and all that.

I love how the video calling Redfall highly underrated showcased one of the biggest issues with the game, it's empty with hardly any enemies around.

Adios Cronus & similar crutch / cheating devices.

Was hoping for more gamepass additions, there was barely any announcements in that regard. I was holding onto hope that either Robocop or Alan Wake 2 were headed to gamepass.

Sales jumped 136% but Sony's Playstation 5 still took the top spot? What does Xbox have to do to slow Playstation down?

If this trial works like past one's you should be able to extend your gameplay past the 10 hour mark by signing into a new / different profile then going to the store page while signed into that profile and redeeming the free trial again then launch the game and while the game is running sign into your main profile and you should be able to keep going past 10 hours.

The reason this works is the game thinks you're using the the free trial time remaining of the new profile but in-game you're loading the saves of your main profile. This doesn't work with EA's 10 hour trials.