Eager to play, my friends and I debated where to buy it for a long time. This all came to a head with the release of Back 4 Blood, a Game Pass game that offered early access to anyone who pre-ordered the Deluxe Edition. Related: Back 4 Blood, The Good Life, Destiny 2: Beyond Light PC Coming To Game Pass This Month At this point, when a new game comes out, I’m not as sure as I used to be that I should buy it on Valve’s storefront. Between the growing library of free games on Epic Game Store and the incomparable selection on Game Pass, I’ve started to spend less and less time on Steam.
And more importantly, it gives gamers a chance to sample a far greater range of games from developers of all sizes, solving one of gaming's greatest discoverability problems.But I’ve been stuck in a dilemma for a while now, wondering if Steam should really be my default store. A 12-month subscription costs the same as three major new game releases (or even less, now that a lot of new games have jumped to $70). Now it's the default release platform for major games from Microsoft-associated publishers such as Bethesda, and hit series like Halo and Forza.Īs it evolved into the multiheaded hydra that is Game Pass Ultimate, it's hard to rationalize even buying an Xbox without also subscribing. When it launched, Game Pass felt a lot like Netflix in its early streaming days: an interesting idea, but a thin catalog. For example, on the PC you still need to install yet another launcher and family settings in XGPU don't apply to EA Play. While it's great that EA Play is included in the subscription price for XGPU, it's not integrated that closely. Like many subscription services, the game (or movie or TV show) you want always seems to be on the service you don't subscribe to. It offers a notable number of new games and Day 1 launches, but the library also sheds games regularly. For instance, its cloud gaming stream is still limited to 1080p at 60fps, while Stadia can do 4K and GeForce Now 1440p at 120fps.Īnd there are few things more rage-inducing than settling in to play on your PC and discovering that the game won't launch until you update Windows because the Xbox app is too enmeshed with the Microsoft Store - a major buzzkill that has frequently impelled us to move on to other, non-Game Pass games. Dan Ackerman/CNET Where it falls shortĪs a jack-of-all-trades, XGPU doesn't master every aspect.
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