Special Xbox Game Pass 'Upgrade' Bundles Confirmed For Starfield & Forza Motorsport

In all fairness Forza will leave the service. Forza unfortunately still get delisted. Usually though they gift the game to anyone that owns it.

I kinda hope they sort it out so Forzas don’t disappear so quick.

Won’t ever leave the service?

Because the previous FM games say hello to you.

The base games should be included imo.

So i can just buy that upgrade and I will be able to play starfield in the early access through gamepass?

@FraserG thanks brother I have always had gamepass and that won't change so no need to buy the 99 dollar version.

@Stocksy Forza Horizon 4 (2018) was not delisted, though.

Well, guess I'll buy it next month as I can not wait any longer haha

Fine by me. I will stare straight into the grimey jaw of capitalism and say, "Yes, Daddy, please. Let me have Starfield five days sooner. Just take my money."

@themightyant That premium edition probably includes some free space horse armor. You know, as a kind gesture to remind us how this all started.

@themightyant Eh, I'm not too bothered. They're giving me DLCs I'd buy anyway. I'm an accountant, I have to admire schemes like this. This is what we pay those guys in marketing for.

@themightyant I do understand what you are saying. I would have to pay for the expansion anyways and it comes with this bonus so its not that big of a deal to me.

@FraserG Any chance I can use my rewards to get it? I am thinking so … time to redeem friends …
Edit - yes, used all my rewards points and got the upgrade. Also got 799 reward points for my 10% off purchase

I don't own game pass and I'm not spending €80 for Starfield Standard edition 😂. Although I can just get game pass

@Banjo- I know it’s not time yet. It will be. 3 only went last year didn’t it? Although the last few years are a blur for me it might have been longer. Motorsport 7 has gone? Or is it still up? I’m still sore I never got to play Forza H1 rally expansion. I have everything else Forza.

@Stocksy Forza Horizon 4 was expected to be delisted in October 2022. With previous Forza games, their fourth anniversaries represented the time when the games would get delisted from digital storefronts due to expiring licences. Forza Horizon 4 launched in October 2018.

If Microsoft had a hand in development for a game, it will come off Game Pass if, for some reason, they discontinue active support for the title and/or it's delisted.

Quantum Break had some licensing issues, causing it to be delisted from both the store and Game Pass for a few days while they fixed it.
Super Lucky's Tale got temporarily delisted from both when New Super Lucky's Tale was released, until Microsoft were able to make it so an ownership perk, that gave you the original and it's DLC for free, applied to the Game Pass version of New.
Forza Motorsport 7 was reaching the end of it's licensing period and Microsoft made it practically free to buy, telling everyone to purchase every piece of the game possible before it was gone forever.

And over the 'Day 1 on Game Pass' tag, that refers to the final release, not the final 'open beta' that all the premium edition players get. Games get Day 1 patches all too often. I'd rather wait a few days, let those early adopters find those last bugs, than celebrate getting the biggest title of the year... and find myself falling through a planet when landing.

@AlwaysPlaying how did you redeem your points for this, I can't seem to see the option?

@RetroMan71 just redeem your rewards into a Xbox gift card. If you see the $5 option then click on the drop down and get the $25 option. I redeemed two of these. Then purchase the preorder and it should use those cards for your purchase. (Sorry I’m in Canada so I don’t have the pound symbol)

@AlwaysPlaying aaah of course, thanks buddy. Never redeemed before...

@themightyant no offense man but I think you’re making this a way bigger deal than it is. You only get early access with the premium and collectors edition, not the standard. A LOT of gaming companies do that. The real release day is September 6th as that’s when the standard edition (the one that will be on game pass) comes out. You’re paying more for dlc, cosmetics and early access.

@ValentineMeikin the licensing issues had to do with the stuff that doesn't belong to Microsoft for the games that they took off like the music and so on. Everything in starfield is proprietary. There is nothing in there that they'll have to delis when the licensing end star field is owned by Microsoft and everything in it. It's not like Bethesda can just go out and take their game and go somewhere else. Microsoft owns Bethesda and all the titles that are made by Bethesda well zenimax which is the parent company too. Bethesda

@themightyant You are still playing it day one (release date) on Game Pass. It is just that everybody that buys Premium is playing it on day negative 5. They have a golden ticket. How does that that work for you? It is called EARLY ACCESS. Game Pass does not promise early access just plain old day one (oh , how awful that must be). Do you always get your nickers in such a bunch?

@themightyant It is Day 1 on Game Pass, the Deluxe gets you five days early access. September 6th is the official release date on Bethesda's own website, not the 1st.

https://bethesda.net/en/game/starfield

Early access has been a thing for years now but you're getting worked up about it. It's not a con as you put it, as you're not just getting early access, you get the expansion as well.

@VisitingComet1 man I was right on the verge of posting 100$ for that premium edition. This came in clutch. 😂