![]() Windows has found that the file you downloaded is potentially harmful. Can’t use that folder because you don’t have permission. It restricts access from everyone but power users across the board. This is an issue that is baked into the foundation of the Operating System itself. I don’t like it, but I get why it’s such a problem for the Windows Store to improve. And despite years of updates and countless redesigns and feature tweaks, the Windows Store is still probably the worst game sales platform in existence. You see, the PC version of XGPU is tied, inextricably, to the Windows Store. The X in XGPU implies a bias towards the console, but even if you don’t own the One or Series X|S machines, you get a great deal out of this program provided your PC is up to the task.īut something is rotten in the state of BoxX*. There’s Dishonored, the Doom games, the new Wolfensteins, Prey - all fantastic games, and they’re all available now on XGPU.Īnd there’s a twist, too - every game I’ve listed is available for PC subscribers of XGPU. Skyrim Special Edition is still going for $60 on Steam. With the addition late last week of a large portion of the Bethesda back catalog, this idea got even better. Subnautica, Dead Cells and Slay the Spire are all available - three of the best games from the last decade (though none of them were priced at $80 at any point of their lifecycle). Doom Eternal, Alien Isolation, Void Bastards, Control, the Halo franchise, Yakuzas 3 Remastered through Like a Dragon all became available on XGPU post-launch. Sea of Thieves, Gears 5, Forza Horizon 4, The Outer Worlds, Wasteland 3, Crusader Kings III, The Medium - all of these games were available on release date to subscribers of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. If a brand new game costs $80 - and they generally cost more, but if you’re savvy enough to cop a 50% discount on your Xbox Live, I presume you can find discounts for games as well - then you come out ahead as long as you find four games that you would have happily paid for in that time frame. You’d then spend an extra dollar and any games that came out on this service for the next three years were already taken care of. So instead of costing about $400, if you did a bit of hunting you could find 36 months of Xbox Live for $290 (AUD, all these prices are in AUD). By buying up to 3 years of Xbox Live at $10.95 a month and then spending a single extra dollar, you could get 3 years of Microsoft’s best offering of games.Īnd better still, when you are buying Xbox Live at yearly rates, you’re not paying the full price. You could upgrade an Xbox Live plan to XGPU by paying a single dollar. When they first introduced XGPU, they offered a special deal with it. Think Netflix, but for video games, because, well, that’s what they’re going for.ĭespite primarily being a PC gamer I’ve long been an advocate for Xbox Game Pass Ultimate because, if you crunch the numbers, it just makes monetary sense. Xbox Game Pass Ultimate is a (relatively) cheap subscription service that offers subscribers an array of games, both new and old, for one low monthly price.
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