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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.

In other words they want to make sure Activisions games continue to sell this holiday season before they throw them up on gamepass un the new year.

@Romans12 Unfortunately battlefield 2042 doesn't have a campaign. It's a multiplayer only game but can be played alone or with friends against bots populating your game if you don't want to play against real players.

I wish Darktide would shadow drop on gamepass.

It surprises me that these games don't have a time limit or something during these free play weekends. I have beaten / completed a few games that have been available this way, including last year's wwe 2k22.

Iron Harvest Complete Edition (very good RTS that plays alot like Company of Heroes.) , Bulleststorm Full Clip edition , Resident Evil 3 Remake , Tiny Tina's Wonderlands , Risk of Rain 1+2 bundle

It's weird seeing mw2 on the top paid and most played list but I can only ever seem to get into the same lobby over and over again like there's only those same 10-12 people playing.

Elden Ring & Pong Quest 🙃

I pre ordered the upgrade as soon as it showed up on the store. With my Microsoft rewards it only cost me $20, heck of a deal for early access and the first expansion. The cosmetics i probably won't actually use but the expansion alone for $20 sounds like a steal based on Bethesda's previous DLC's.

Perfect timing i just signed up to gamepass for $1 and out of curiosity created a new account afterwords to see if I could create multiple gamepass profiles for each month to get gamepass for $1 and it actually worked. Somehow gamepass is shared with all accounts on the Xbox so I don't need to buy gamepass for my 200+k gs account.

I could be playing CoD and Diablo 4 for $1 in the future with this and that's awesome.

Ubisoft really wants Ubi+ to fail on Xbox by the looks of things. Xbox users being treated as second rate citizens, paying more for the service than PC users but you get less.

Games with Gold really needs to reevaluate what games they give away. The excuse used to be Microsoft was focused on gamepass but now you have the new PS+ and they are offering AAA games in their essentials tier which is the same as GwG while still offering a catalogue of monthly games for extra & premium.

I currently buy Gamepass Ultimate from a key reseller for $5 so the price increase doesn't affect me.

If I was paying full price Gamepass would cost me $20 which simply isn't worth it. Especially the past couple months where its been heavy on indie games and duds like Redfall.