ThumzOfDeath

I hope Xbox got a nice bag of $$$ from EA to put it on Gamepass

The telling point for me is that those who PAID to be able to enjoy a feature in the campaign (which 343 promised, of their own volition, (at least as far as I know no-one held a gun to their head)) have been placed at a lower priority than those who want to play for free and may, or may not, kick them a couple $$ for the multiplayer stuff. The message has been received loud and clear, and my financial support of anything they do in the future will reflect this.

My nephew did the FC5 early one for finishing the tutorial island and it didn't register on the punch card for him but did appear in the achievement list and counted for AMEM. Didn't share the achievement to his social feed either...interestingly I got one earlier and it shared that to my social feed twice...must be a summer Sunday thing lol

And this is precisely why the only digital purchases I will make are 100% funded with MS reward points...yes it's annoying when I can't play something which I 'own', but to be fair it means that £0.00 has come out of my pocket to 'buy' said product...my actual cash on hand still goes to fund booze / pizza / ladies of negotiable virtue / recreational narcotics / rock 'n roll etc. If it's a single player game I really care about I'll buy physical and make sure I have all the patches / add ons downloaded and saved to an external HDD...MS can't be trusted and probably never will be as far as I'm concerned

Sensible Soccer for the modern systems? I'm in!

There are no Xbox One games to look forward to in 2022? Given that (at current run rate of production) the Series machines will still be less than 50% of the total install base by the end of the year that's pretty disappointing...guess I should start to look for a PS5

I'm not entirely sure I understand the question you are asking here (or the feedback you're hoping to analyse...I'm not sure you care as long as you generate some engagement tbh, but that's a different story, not complaining, we all need to make a £)...do you mean a) what is your level of engagement with the GamePass subscription service? / how do you feel about the value you are getting from GamePass in 2022? or b) has the 2022 Gamepass offering been compelling enough to make you open your wallet and increase the number of subscribers? They're VERY different questions and a far more complex of set of data than an a-f rating would allow for. In the case of scenario b, in the most pragmatic terms, there are three answers to a simple question...has GamePass offered enough value to make you subscribe in 2022? a) yes its pretty cool, I enjoy being able to explore a bunch of different experiences and try some bigger games at no risk b) I'm already subscribed for an extended period so its just extra stuff I can check out if I feel like it / have the free time c) nope, I'm waiting until there is a solid backlog of decent games before I'm willing to commit to a subscription model.
Might be interesting to reconsider what info you are trying to mine and reframe the question accordingly.
Personally for me its an F in the last 5 months...my sub expired in October last year...ME LE is compelling but I wont be able to finish that in 3 months, it was on sale for £30 but (at MS list) 3 months of GPU goes for £33...makes more sense to buy it...bought Halo Infinite with my MS reward points (£0.00 out of my pocket, and tbh Halo has been the only 'anchor' holding me to Xbox for a while (other than offset thumbsticks))...there are some really cool looking games on GP (Deaths Door etc) but that simply keeps me from working through my backlog that I already paid up front for so why would I consider that a win? Its an interesting question all round but I think it requires a little deeper thought than a simple school style rating

Decent sale price for Halo Infinite given that it isn't finished or launched yet (yes, I'm one of those 'waiting for co-op' people, don't argue with my denial lol), I think I'll probably pick it up now

No, it definitely won't be free to play. If they want me to play it they need to compensate me for my time

I don't generally get amped for anything pre release but I know if 3 is anything like 2 its going to suck me in to WAY more hours than I promised I would devote to it...cant wait to see what this series evolves into, I think it has potential as a 'sleeper' hit for Xbox

Witcher 2 and (shame on me) Halo 5...only because my nephew wants to do a full run of all the Halo games before we can jump into the Infinite campaign on co-op...just felt it would be mean to deprive a 9 year old lol

Its a go now, 17.47GB on Xbox One

@Would_you_kindly
thanks for the heads up, looking at it on the console and still nada unfortunately, I shall just bide my time a little longer, waited years, a small additional delay wont be the end of me

Not live for me, I only have options for 'get Game Pass' and 'Choose Edition (not sold separately)'...patience. patience...

Precisely why a system without a physical option is a no go for me. Yes the digital version of a game is in many cases (in my experience, and usually after an extended time period) competitive with a physical copy (mostly in sales) but I can't ever see myself voluntarily opting in to a situation that allows the likes of Activision to exercise the monopolistic option. They clearly feel that the CoD brand is worth a premium, they always have done, I just can't agree with them! I wonder how many actually buy old CoD games digitally? Just those who may be new to gaming and want to experience some of the history? I still can't bring myself to spring for the MW2 Remastered campaign at £20, let alone any of the others.

That's a shame, just finished playing through all the others in co-op with my nephew in advance of infinite...effectively makes it a 2022 release for me then. On the plus side I guess I won't need to renew my GP sub when it runs out in October, gives me a few months to work on the backlog

I think it may be intermittent attacks, had this issue last week (don't remember exactly when) but just tried a game now...showing me a 12ms ping on the London data centre and took <30 seconds to load me into a game of attrition

Seems to be back and functional now, just loaded it 3 times to check and all working normally again. * 5 mins later and it's back to falling over lol

Every time I try to launch it, it kicks Xbox Live offline so not really relevant, I cant experience it lol

Highlight of the show for me, 'Trailer of the Year', did exactly what it needed to, just confirmed that it's on the table

That's a shame, I was hoping they might launch the series x in the UK first

@VenomousAlbino No, point redemption has no impact on streak progression, you’ll be fine to redeem whenever is convenient

@InterceptorAlpha thanks for confirming, I had a sneaking feeling that would be the case, leaves it on my ‘skip it’ list too 🙄

Does this game have a 'sign up for an account' requirement?

meh...best I can come up with lol

mmmmmmmm....sadly a miss for me, were it not an online, pvp focussed effort I would have been right there on day 1

Where is the option to vote for ‘I have NO interest in wrestling games whatsoever, stop wasting our time and make something that might actually be worth our time and money’???’

Perfect timing....my nephew just got his first Xbox so it’s MCC all the way for him as an Easter gift lol....and thanks to the rewards scheme it won’t cost me one red cent 😄😄