Itâs all clear to me now: Weâve been talking about Gold being on the chopping block for a while now. Theyâre hoping to use the ABK acquisition to shuffle the contingent of casuals who have Gold but not GP into GP by baiting them with Call of Duty. They wonât get everyone but itâll soften the blow for when they kill Gold, and they might offer some other incentive at the time too, for the FIFA and Madden players who donât play CoD. Maybe the right time to roll out the family plan, or the Xcloud library support theyâve been working on.
Then they portray it as âLook at how much this massive acquisition is helping consumers! We offer more places to play, and we let everyone play together for free! We should be allowed to acquire more, for great justice.â
NGL, these were two games Iâve contemplated picking up on sales.
No longer necessary!
Yeah my theory that theyâd make this a good month now that they axed the BC games was so wrong.
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Windbound isnât too bad at all, right?
This only further shows me 2 things
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If it wasnât already obvious, GP is the focus now, to say they care about GwG is an understatement
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My tinfoil/not really tinfoil theory is they are ok with making GwG as bad as possible in order to stop people from subscribng/moving to GP so they can finally drop Gold completely
Hey, weâre Nierly there!
I donât think theyâre intentionally making it bad, just that theyâre not willing to put much money into it, since itâs not long for this world.
Agreed. Also, a large portion of the people who are still on Gold probably donât even bother to claim the GWG offerings. When I had Gold a long time ago, I (stupidly) only claimed an handful of games like MGSV and Saints Row 3.
Iâm glad the first game is being offered. I was interested the moment I saw the artwork. Giving me serious RIME vibes.
Just two games in that image looks so incrediblyâŚquiet. Why canât they just a third Xbox One game? Or a fourth? Two in the first half and two in the second half?
I will claim them because I claim all of them. Because IâŚ
Not amazing, but letâs be honest, itâs just an added bonus for us game pass ultimate subscribers. It needs to die and they are just waiting for the gold members to jump ship before they axe it.
Donât own these two and will add them to my mega library of games.
Just end this pointless thing. Getting embarassing just announcing things. Surely someone higher up can see that.
Games With Gold for October 2022
I mean no disrespect to the developers of these games, but this is wellâŚyeah
I now theyâre effectively free, but this is just allowing people to have a pop at Games with Gold. Maybe its time for MS to drop it altogetherâŚ