Report Drops Some Eye-Opening Stats About Xbox Game Pass

Using Metacritic as a base....sheesh.......

It doesn't really matter what the total value of all the games on game pass are to me. I only care about two things:

• Are there things on game pass I actually want to play
• Am OK with the potential of not being able to play those games in the future if/when they leave game pass

I converted my gold to game pass and if I am being honest I rarely play game pass games. Of the total available games on game pass there are only a few I am interested in enough to play. Several of those I already own.

I think game pass is a cool option but, for me, it isn't as amazing as it is for some people. If it didn't exist, I wouldn't care much.

I honestly don't go by what the "core" people's scores are for a game, movie or book. There are so many titles across all forms of entertainment where people said it was bad and i loved it and that people raved about something and i found it to be a waste of my life. You won't know until you try. I love gamepass for the crazy value and the ability to go and explore games without worries of wasting my money. It's truly fantastic for letting people creating passion projects that will apeal to many gamers. No every game has to be loved by everyone and with a $100M+ budget.

Only problem is getting time to play them all.

@Medic_Alert There's no qualitative research done here, just quantitative. There is a lot of research that needs to be done through surveys, interviews, etc. Doing reports from such subjective and biased source - whom posters all who have their own agenda - discredit the report in a whole.

It's true that as major concentration of ratings, Metacritic is the number one spot, but there is no moderation on that site and its a free-for-all. I applaud the user for what he tried to do but using Metacritic is just as worthless than using Wikipedia and not checking your sources. Still, there are parts of that reports, aside from the ratings that is good and it does give a confirmation of what many of us users have been feeling about the service and that's good.

But man, people need to stop using Metacritic or any review site that allow users to post anything without being moderated.

@graysoncharles Happy for you that you enjoy going on a site giving you wrong info while holding your hand. But hey, to each their own I suppose.

I find the xbox app underwhelming. There's been a fair few games ive downloaded that have simply not worked. Really annoying downloading a 80gb game and find it doesnt work and drop to desktop. I only download smaller stuff now and probably use the xbox more for downloads and not pc. That beta app needs seriously looking at. I'm not the only one who's had this issue with failed games.

So Game Pass is still awesome? I’m not sure why this is even news? But it is, because some idiots still question how Microsoft “makes money” or are “ruining the games industry” with Game Pass. 🙄

Game Pass is amazing & it goes with Xbox’s backwards compatibility program....which makes it even better. Oh and then EA Play is now involved, which because of Xbox’s backwards compatibility makes it so much more valuable on Xbox than PlayStation.

Anyone who wants to question this, I would question your sanity or whether you are drunk and/or high. Lol.

And Xbox first party titles are coming. And they are released on Day 1 in Game Pass. I have no idea why anyone would question or how anyone would knock Game Pass.

@graysoncharles

Really? 😂

Wow. Just......wow. 🙄

@kuliddar

I completely agree.

Don’t let these Push Square guys troll you. You are correct, but you’ll get a lot of flack in here because, apparently, PlayStation fans don’t have enough games to play to keep them busy. So they hang out on an Xbox website. Sad. Thankfully, us Xbox fans have Game Pass, so we have a ridiculous amount of great games to play.

And I would say.......the Metacritic score for The Last Of Us 2 is pretty high (of course it is, because it’s a PS exclusive), but even half (or more) of the PlayStation fanbase hates that game. Lol.

Point is......Metacritic is near worthless.

@Krzzystuff

Exactly! I couldn’t have said it better myself. 👍🏻

@Kefka2589

Sorry, I was on a rant there & “replied” to you in it.

But yea I can’t blame you! With you being gone from Xbox last-gen, I am almost jealous of all of the awesome games you have to play in Game Pass for the first time. Haha!

@KelticDevil Oh the irony to say people with playstations comment on here because they have no fun games to play while you're on here commenting you have so many games to play 😂

Anyway to dismiss people's interest in where Game Pass will take the industry is unfair. Game pass isn't the full solution just like Netflix isn't. Netflix is great, but if you only have Netflix then you miss out on most of the best content out there. If you are properly into tv/films then Netflix just isn't good enough on its own. But if you just want 'something' to watch that's convenient then it'll do the job.

I'd even argue that Game Pass isn't as necessary a purchase as Netflix because you can get everything on Game pass without Game Pass while Netflix some stuff is only on Netflix.

Is that where Game Pass will go eventually? So Halo 8, 9, 10 will be Game Pass exclusive? Maybe - and I wouldn't be surprised if that's the future. But right now I have Netflix, Amazon Prime, Sky and Disney+ to allow me to watch most of the content that's worth watching. Is the future to have Nintendo Pass, Game Pass, Sony Pass, EA Pass, Ubipass, WB Pass etc?

I guess that's where the interest comes from because people saying Game Pass is the greatest thing ever and its all you need is like people with Netflix saying its the best thing ever and you don't need any other content, which is obviously not true.

It's definitely a 'watch this space' of where gaming will be going.

@StonyKL

There is no “irony”. This is an Xbox website. I play games on Xbox. You don’t see me in the Push Square comment section trolling against a machine I don’t own or want in PlayStation, do you?

Well that happens over here from the PS trolls. And like I said, apparently they don’t have enough games to play if they have the time to come to a website of a console that they don’t own & start trouble. 🙄

@KelticDevil I just wonder if I'm in that category. I have a PS5 and was supposed to have a Series X at this point but failed. Perhaps I'm a PS fan boy until my Series X turns up.

To be honest I didn't have Xbox last gen (did the one before) but came to this site as a PS owner to see if it was worth getting a Series X or not.
As it happens this is how I found out about Game Pass and convinced me to go that route at some point this gen. It may sound strange but the two sites should be better for having owners of each adding their input. Yes some input isn't welcome, but both consoles are amazing by all accounts and putting blinkers on to the other "because I can't stand [input console of choice] owners" is that persons loss.
I give my opinion on things like Game Pass because I'm convinced enough to buy it but not that its the full solution to gaming in the industry.
Knowing the games I played on PS4 last gen, I'd be gutted to miss out on some of them as they were the best experience I've ever had on a console. I'm getting the Series X with Game Pass partly because you'll probably tell me the same thing for not having an Xbox last gen and I don't want to miss out.

@StonyKL

I wasn’t referring to you when I made that statement. I just hit the “ignore” button for the people I was describing. That way it helps keep me from having to read gibberish comments from people only here to troll. Lol.

And when I said “own an Xbox”, I should have said “in the Xbox ecosystem”, as Xbox & Game Pass is almost everywhere these days. That was my fault.

But no, I don’t think you come here to troll. I may not agree with you, at times, but we all have different opinions.....which can be good. 👍🏻

Game pass is a great option if you are certain type of gamer but it is not for everyone.

For one Game pass is a digital service and digital services aren't great for people who have slow crappy internet or in my case internet that is capped. Downloading games constantly is going to eat up my data fast. People talk about how much money you save with game pass well...not really since that money saved will just go towards my data overage charges lol.

It's why I tend to buy physical games. I will not doubt it is a great service and right now game pass is the only thing really keeping Xbox relevant. However their first party offerings.... still need work. Battle Toads and Gears Tactics are just not going to cut it.

For Spotify, I've heard that many artists do not reap much benefit from the service, unlike their record labels, and most of their income is generated from live performances, merchandise sales, and brand alignment. I wonder if the developers feel the pinch of this service.