Games with Gold

Rascasse · 01-11-2013 05:54PM

Remember that PS+ is a different proposition, they essentially lend you the games provided you continue to pay the sub. If they decide to stop supporting PS+ for the PS3 tomorrow then you lose the games. MS are giving you the game forever provided you have a sub at the time the game is offered.

At the end of the day MS don't need to offer a service like PS+ as they were clever enough not to give away online gaming for free. Sony made $140m from PS+ last year, Microsoft made 1.25 billion from Gold subs.

Captain Chaos · 01-11-2013 07:51PM

Rascasse wrote: »

Remember that PS+ is a different proposition, they essentially lend you the games provided you continue to pay the sub. If they decide to stop supporting PS+ for the PS3 tomorrow then you lose the games. MS are giving you the game forever provided you have a sub at the time the game is offered.

At the end of the day MS don't need to offer a service like PS+ as they were clever enough not to give away online gaming for free. Sony made $140m from PS+ last year, Microsoft made 1.25 billion from Gold subs.

But seeing now as you need PS+ to play online with the PS4 the above point is mute and will make MS look even worse in about 6 months time as more and more have X1s and PS4s.

_Redzer_ · 03-11-2013 03:31PM

Rascasse wrote: »

Remember that PS+ is a different proposition, they essentially lend you the games provided you continue to pay the sub. If they decide to stop supporting PS+ for the PS3 tomorrow then you lose the games. MS are giving you the game forever provided you have a sub at the time the game is offered.

At the end of the day MS don't need to offer a service like PS+ as they were clever enough not to give away online gaming for free. Sony made $140m from PS+ last year, Microsoft made 1.25 billion from Gold subs.

I don't care how clever MS were, it's the customers who lose out if those are the titles they're offering, they're not getting the benefit of that 1.25 billion, just MS.

Allyall · 03-11-2013 05:17PM

Rascasse wrote: »

At the end of the day MS don't need to offer a service like PS+ as they were clever greedy enough not to give away online gaming for free. Sony made $140m from PS+ last year, Microsoft made 1.25 billion from Gold subs.

That's the what most are concerned with.
While it may seem 'clever' for MS, a lot of xbox360 owners are jumping ship.
I haven't heard of anyone going the opposite direction.

Iano_128 · 03-11-2013 08:12PM

Allyall wrote: »

That's the what most are concerned with.
While it may seem 'clever' for MS, a lot of xbox360 owners are jumping ship.
I haven't heard of anyone going the opposite direction.

Have to agree there! I'm one of many people I've talked to who are going to get a PS4 instead of the new Xbox and have had an Xbox since day one. I haven't heard of anyone whose going from PS to Xbox.

RobertFoster · 16-11-2013 08:42PM

Iron Brigade is available now in case anyone has forgot...like I did, until just now

2Mad2BeMad · 17-11-2013 04:12PM

RobertFoster wrote: »

Iron Brigade is available now in case anyone has forgot...like I did, until just now

please try and help me forget again:pac:

Mickeroo · 17-11-2013 04:14PM

Is it any good?

Any word on what we're getting next month? Better be something decent for christmas.

2Mad2BeMad · 17-11-2013 07:36PM

Mickeroo wrote: »

Is it any good?

Any word on what we're getting next month? Better be something decent for christmas.

were getting an xbox one:P

CatInABox · 27-11-2013 03:27PM

"Gears of War" and "Shoot many Robots" are up next.

Will it be enough to make me turn off the Xbox One? No.

See here.

Mickeroo · 27-11-2013 03:29PM

Gears of War 1? Ffs.

super_furry · 27-11-2013 03:30PM

Jesus, why even bother?

Mr Freeze · 27-11-2013 03:36PM

Gears of War 1, that is a poor choice to give away free, I couldn't give away my download code for it that came with GOW Judgement.

Don't know what Shoot Many Robots is, It would be safe to assume, that its a 3D XBLA shooter that sold badly.

super_furry · 27-11-2013 03:40PM

Mr Freeze wrote: »

Gears of War 1, that is a poor choice to give away free, I couldn't give away my download code for it that came with GOW Judgement.

I actually have two of them sitting at home right now, like you, can't give them away.

Myrddin · 27-11-2013 03:42PM

GoW 1? Seriously?

Mickeroo · 27-11-2013 03:43PM

I figured it would be a bit much to expect something like Judgement, but even if it was the third one it wouldn't be so bad. All three of them are dead sales wise at his stage so why not give the third one?

RobertFoster · 27-11-2013 09:15PM

I got Gears bundled with my Xbox way back in 2006. Good time, good times.

It'd be surprising if people haven't played it yet, though others said that about Halo 3 last month and I've still not played that.

calex71 · 28-11-2013 10:45AM

As someone said to me last night on live during a game, giving gears away is an insult to die hard xbox live gold subscribers, they are the bread and butter of the service and I would say you would struggle to find any more than 5% of them who haven't played GOW :mad:

iColdFusion · 28-11-2013 12:26PM

Case Zero is the only thing I've gotten so far and I love free stuff, pretty pathetic really.

DubOnHoliday · 28-11-2013 12:47PM

I was hoping they'd go with GoW3 to bump up the live games. Gears 1? jaysus.

Backfire · 28-11-2013 01:16PM

Is shoot many robots any good? Is it worth downloading on december 16th?

I have yet to download any free game as my internet speed isnt great and downloading the full 8gb games would take forever! I would only consider downloading good arcade games as they are generally small in size.

djkeogh · 28-11-2013 02:15PM

happy Christmas me arse.

erkifino · 28-11-2013 06:11PM

Remarkable...

DARK-KNIGHT · 28-11-2013 06:17PM

No announcements for the xbox one free games yet? Gow is a pathetic offering.. i have 75 games arcade of course i cant play on my xbox one.. will not be buying arcade games this gen purely because of that

Screaming Monkey · 29-11-2013 09:09AM

they have Fallout 3 for 7.95 on Xbox at the moment, just got that instead, not going to even waste my bandwidth on downloading GOW 1

mrcheez · 29-11-2013 03:04PM

RobertFoster wrote: »

It'd be surprising if people haven't played it yet, though others said that about Halo 3 last month and I've still not played that.

I've only played Gears 2, first game I bought actually (for 360)! I'm probably the only one by the sounds of it though!

Fingleberries · 29-11-2013 05:56PM

DARK-KNIGHT wrote: »

No announcements for the xbox one free games yet? Gow is a pathetic offering.. i have 75 games arcade of course i cant play on my xbox one.. will not be buying arcade games this gen purely because of that

Xbox One games they will announcing 'Later in 2014' (probably when they've enough Arcade bumpf to offload (and Killer Instinct, of course)

Mr Freeze · 03-12-2013 01:14PM

Japan get Halo Wars as the Games with Gold instead of Gears of War, due to it being too violent.

maximoose · 03-12-2013 01:28PM

I'd kinda like Halo wars...

Mr Freeze · 03-12-2013 01:33PM

maximoose wrote: »

I'd kinda like Halo wars...

Well I haven't played it, and would have preferred it over GOW1.

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