• SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    And lots of gamers praise Microsoft for GamePass, because it’s cheap. When Microsoft’s goal with GamePass is the same as Ubisoft’s. Ms would love that you rent your games from them indefinitely. Wouldn’t surprise me that in 10-15 years you can’t buy the games made by Microsoft anymore only rent through GamePass and the subscription fee would be five times higher than now

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      3 months ago

      I mean depending on your gaming style it might be cheaper.

      If you play a game for a few hours and then buy the next new shiny 3A game then the game pass is cheaper.

      If you buy one game and then send thousands of hours into it then obviously it is not cheap

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        I hear about people getting Minecraft on game pass. Those people don’t play Minecraft like I play Minecraft

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      The single most problematic thing where you should start to notice how bad gamepass can be is when you unsubscribe and decide to buy one of the games you’ve played only to have your savegames in gamepass gulag.

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        3 months ago

        You are really making a mountain of a mole hill, to get my save from Outer Worlds gamepass to use on steam’s version was as easy as just copy pasting the files in another folder

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          They absolutely are not and you are lucky you were able to get your save game out. The majority of games have their config and save files encrypted and are completely unusable as far as any other platform goes.

          There are some exceptions, mainly games that have official mod support tend to have areas you can access but the majority of others won’t.

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            I really don’t know what to say, I did this both with Outer Worlds and Code Vein. Just went to PCgamingwiki’s entries of the 2 games, saw where the save folders are, and dropped each from the microsoft one to the steam one.

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              Well you aren’t going to be able to pick out a trend with only testing two games. Its enough of a problem that I would double check where the save is before starting a game on gamepass.

              The last game I tried to move and failed was snowrunner I believe.