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Utnayan

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Of course you can. Nobody with any sense at all pays 30 bucks a month for GPU. Right now it's ~$36 (Eneba) for a 6 mo. GP Essential key which converts to 72 days of ultimate. 5 keys for a year works out to roughly $15 a month.

Ag, ok didn’t know that was still a thing.
 

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Gravel

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I mean...no shit? Pretty sure many of us predicted that.

It's amazing how things that are super obvious somehow elude these massive corporations.
 
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spronk

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dev says gamepass deals are currently frozen, stuff is usually inked 6-12 months (if not longer) in advance so prob won't see the effects right now but it wouldn't be shocking if only shovelware games are on gamepass within the next year or two



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spronk

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30m x $15 mo = $450m a month or $5 billion a year which is about what they say they make in revenue from GP.

Of course how many of those people are $1 convert leftovers, how many people paid with Microsoft Rewards or foreign VPN, etc. As all those avenues have been shut down I suspect sub numbers are gonna plummet over the next year.
 
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Xenrauk

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They had projected to double their subs this year while also jacking up the prices? Phil was smoking the good shit at the end of his tour it seems. They also took future Cod's off the pass, so did they expect halo campaign/gears of war/fable to boost it that much? lol.
 

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Lost Odyssey definitely needs to be the next one they add.
 
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Utnayan

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Vorph Vorph - Seeing the below:

When you upgrade to XBOX Game Pass Ultimate, we’ll convert any prepaid time you have on XBOX Game Pass or EA Play subscriptions and apply it toward XBOX Game Pass Ultimate at the current conversion ratio, up to a maximum of 36 months.
  • XBOX Game Pass Essential conversion percentage: 45% of your remaining time will convert to XBOX Game Pass Ultimate time and be rounded up to the next full day. For example, 90 days remaining of XBOX Game Pass Essential will convert to 40 days of XBOX Game Pass Ultimate time.
  • PC Game Pass conversion percentage: 60% of your remaining time will convert to XBOX Game Pass Ultimate and be rounded up to the next full day. For example, 90 days remaining of PC Game Pass will convert to 54 days of XBOX Game Pass Ultimate time.
  • XBOX Game Pass Premium conversion ratio: 65% of your remaining time will convert to XBOX Game Pass Ultimate and be rounded up to the next full day. For example, 90 days remaining of XBOX Game Pass Premium will convert to 59 days of XBOX Game Pass Ultimate time.
  • Game Pass for Console conversion ratio: 50% of your remaining time will convert to XBOX Game Pass Ultimate and be rounded up to the next full day. For example, 90 days remaining of XBOX Game Pass Premium will convert to 45 days of XBOX Game Pass Ultimate time.
  • EA Play conversion percentage: 25% of your remaining time will convert to XBOX Game Pass Ultimate and be rounded up to the next full day. For example, 90 days remaining of EA Play will convert to 22 days of XBOX Game Pass Ultimate time.

Looking at Eneba - not seeing really good options with the conversion rates per dollar. What do you think would be the best option?
 

Vorph

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Looking at Eneba - not seeing really good options with the conversion rates per dollar. What do you think would be the best option?

12 month Essential for $57.24 (converts to 165 days / 34.6 cents a day) is as good as it gets right now. Not a bad price really; looking back at the last time I made a 'price on Eneba' post it was about 50 cents a day. That was just before they updated the prices and conversion rates (Essential actually improved back in April).
 
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spronk

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what a crazy wide range of scores, itll be on gamepass. i think its from the pokemon company but they outsourced a lot of it
 

Vorph

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what a crazy wide range of scores
Nier-ish design with mediocre combat and all the standard UE5 jank everyone expects (including no ultrawide) seems to be the general consensus.

Guess I'll download it for Series X anyway, but my expectation is with the 5-6 scores. I fucking hate parry games.
 
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The lack of ultrawide makes the game feel like some older title that is being emulated. That and the usual lack of meaningful UX endemic to Japanese developed titles.
 

Kaige

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Another parry game? Fuck that noise. I'm so sick of parrying being added to everything, its even in Metroid games now.

Some of it is out of control, it feels like you're playing a rhythm game instead of an RPG.
 

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I don’t like parry games either. Think I got to a savepoint or two after the guy on a horse with a spear boss in Sekiro. Remember that I finished the boss and didn’t feel good about it. Just annoyed. More like the feel of early QTE when they started becoming a thing and «hard» was basically just following split second button press timing. I just had kept going that far because it was FromSoft and I had to like it. Never did even though I know people love it.

Game can have a parry system, but add a Dodge as well. Stellar Blade is the perfect mix for me. With the skills that extends the timing windows I enjoyed it.

This one though sounds like a skip for me until a deep sale
 
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