Looking for a Game Pass option for PC?
Looking for a Game Pass option for PC?
It's a contemporary rental platform. When it's free or priced at $1.00, it matches your expectations for games that fit within those time limits. Why would anyone purchase or even care about two Microsoft titles each year? And regardless of how many you own—one, five, or more—it's challenging to obtain the game online for roughly $5 to $18. How do you manage to keep it permanently once you've finished playing? If you finish a game in 1 to 3 months, you can easily return it to its original source for likely more than your initial cost and then invest that money in another title, exclusive or not.
from my point of view, I mostly bought digital copies on my consoles until recently, because it was cheaper than buying two physical copies or getting two games. I was just mentioning that if someone wanted to purchase at least two exclusive titles developed by Microsoft each year—either digitally or physically when new releases came out—it would make more sense to spend the same amount to get early access to those games plus the chance to play other titles included in Game Pass. For me, a yearly Game Pass costs around $132. If you’re on Gold and play monthly, that’s another $132. On a console, it’s about $80 a year (or roughly $192 if you buy both). Since I’m currently taking advantage of a discounted sale, and stores like JB HiFi and Big W seem to offer the best prices for physical games locally, it makes sense to prioritize those options while still enjoying digital convenience.
Retail caters to fools. You'd need to be a fool to spend $132 on a game pass. Even then, you'd have to be a fool to pay $132 for Xbox Live Gold when it's free via Microsoft Rewards (about 90 seconds of daily Bing searches). Apparently, *The Valley Of The Shadow Of Death* isn't the best spot for gamers. eb is always half off or cheaper. Except possibly at launch—just wait a week, and it'll drop to half price then. You notice eb is essentially where people trade games they finished or couldn't afford originally. And somehow, they prefer getting the discount quickly rather than having no price at all. Even though they could clearly get all that money back from those who pay full price for the game anyway.