Desperados 3 dropped on Gamepass and I think I'll have to make some changes to my 2020 top. The game is phenomenal.

@scotty That was what I thought it was going to happen for months now. Killing gold and making f2p subscription free. Perhaps announce its end a couple of years ahead. Maybe even just offer Gamepass to all Gold subscribers for their remaining time. It's quite the conundrum for MS, having this huge source of revenue they need to shift between services, and it's not an horizontal shift, it's quite vertical at double the price. There's always risk of a catastrophic loss of revenue. Maybe creating a Gamepass Silver tier could be the answer, I have no idea.

Someone must have thought that by doing this it would be a great way to show how great deal Gamepass was. (I do think if you have an Xbox and don't have Gamepass that's kinda crazy, but that's beside the point). But even then it would make more sense to make it gradually a worse deal than just doubling it. I do honestly think that whoever made this decision did it because in practical terms this wasn't going to affect most people and would move new comers to Gamepass.

Would love to know how this decision was made. Microsoft literally threw hundreds of millions out the window. They could get away with maybe plus $30/20 a year, along with the announcement of free online for f2p and the increase of monthly free games.

And I do get they kinda have to kill Gold and move people to Gamepass but this is clearly not the way.

I also think someone must have looked at a spreadsheet and concluded that, between people already on Gamepass and the large user base already on Gold that was exempt from the price increase, this was not really going to affect that many people and was an elegant way to kill Gold in the medium term.

Donut County

A cool idea that fails to effectively materialize. It's fun enough to swallow stuff into a hole but it doesn't really expand on its core idea until very near the end. And the way as the narrative ties all together, while light hearted and funny, it's for the most part underdeveloped and at times annoying.
Visually it's just functional, borderline competent.

Seemed like the kind of game I would love but ended up disappointing. 5.5/10

Cyberpunk has another update.

Current subscribers and renewals remain unchanged, this is just another terrible marketing move by MS.

They should just say Gold was no longer available for new subscribers and only Gamepass was available moving forward. Because that's basically what they did but had to do it in the worst possible way.

Edit:And while they're at it make online free, at the very least for f2p games.

Some The Medium interesting facts, like being originally planned to release on the Wii U.

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Tell me Why

For a company which much of its Gameplay consists of dialogue and environmental interactions DONTNOD should at this point have a much more well integrated and seamless system on how this two interact without - for example - losing a conversation just because you looked at a cup.

And in all honesty I would like them to lose their esoteric crutch for storytelling.

Other than that this is another great title from them and in some aspects their best. Less reliant on plot twists, more focused and grounded.

7.8/10

@bam541 Not having combat makes it immediately more appealing, to me.

Yeah, I think I'll pass. But I'll try the multiplatform demo hoping it changes my mind.