Excellent Remote Cloud Gaming Application
Biggest Reason is the cloud gaming feature. This product has grown into a force to be reckoned with. I’ve watched the console wars for thirty years, and I knew that the only way to move forward was for one company to obtain almost full in-house gaming with enough servers, and financially strong to maintain the servers. Sony accidentally becoming a gaming company due to Nintendo choosing cartridge vs disc for the Nes CD, and leaving Sony and all game companies with games already on disc. It’s now 2021. Sony shouldn’t have gone after the Microsoft and Samsung hardware and red laser disc drive (same as blu ray). Sony blocking the media from being mass produced because they are members of the MPAA was a power move. When you use you a Samsung tv the device the tvs recognize is the Xbox. Automatically. My best guess is Xbox will come preinstalled on Samsung tvs for years. Steam just could keep up with the traffic and lack of actual controller, or ox builds that work efficiently. The future is here if enough people build momentum for the cloud streaming. Microsoft isn’t a gaming company. If they lose money they will sell or break it up.
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Amazing and a good way to get free rewards
The game pass is such an amazing idea, it lets you earn rewards for free by simply owning the game pass subscription and doing different tasks, with the subscription it allows you to pay only around 20USD$ to play a huge library of different games that if you wanted to get normally it would cost you a way bigger amount, not only that but with the ultimate game pass it also includes EA play, which makes the library of games even bigger, but also gives you Xbox live gold, meaning you don’t even have to pay for that to enjoy the full online experience, meaning that’s it’s way more worth it aswell, all in all, I’ve had nothing but good experiences with this feature, keep up the good work!
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Convenient
This app is so quick and easy to use, able to browse different games and install them to play later without sitting at my console. Great if you like to try multiple new games.
Excellent features and speed
Personally I have found that this app gets better with each update 👍. Very useful is the “remote install” where you select an item and it is installed directly to your Xbox while you are away - you need to hav your Xbox power set to “instant on” and checked the “allow remote installation” option.
Overall a great product for getting the most out of your games pass 🤩
Overall a great product for getting the most out of your games pass 🤩
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Semi-Superfluous…
I enjoy that I can mindlessly look through games when I’m out and about when I get bored. It seems insane that Xbox and Game Pass are different apps. They seemingly share a majority of their content. Also the game pass app doesn’t seem to actually sync with my console. I can remotely download games to the console(which I can already do with Xbox app), but it never can show progress or anything more. And whenever I’m in My Games it’s never correct. It’ll show three. The sad thing is I have 17 games and only five physical copies, in other words game pass installed 12 games on my system and is and isn’t aware of most. Microsoft apps are getting overwhelming. Bing & Edge? Bing on Edge? Xbox app & Game Pass app? It’s like your competing with yourselves. Regardless, smart tech that doesn’t properly communicate with other products from you guys. Better syncing is a must.
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Great concept, poor execution.
When I saw there was a game pass app for iPhone, I was instantly curious. What would such an app look like? I decided to give it a try, and liked what I saw. You can search the games library, browse by genre, view a list of games coming to and leaving Game Pass. You can even queue an install straight from the app, so it’s ready to play when you’re ready.
The reason I can only give it 3 stars? You cannot view “all games.” The option to browse the full library is there, and you’re able to click it. But I found that as I was scrolling, the app started to freak out. It kept listing dirt over and over again. I scrolled and scrolled until my screen went blank. I closed the app, reopened it. It did the same exact thing. I scrolled all the way to Z and started working my way up. At around S, it starting loading in the listing for Dirt, pushing everything down until I was back in D, looking at a full screen of Dirt.
If the app worked as advertised I would probably give it a 5/5. But, since “Browse all Games” is broken, it gets a 3.
The reason I can only give it 3 stars? You cannot view “all games.” The option to browse the full library is there, and you’re able to click it. But I found that as I was scrolling, the app started to freak out. It kept listing dirt over and over again. I scrolled and scrolled until my screen went blank. I closed the app, reopened it. It did the same exact thing. I scrolled all the way to Z and started working my way up. At around S, it starting loading in the listing for Dirt, pushing everything down until I was back in D, looking at a full screen of Dirt.
If the app worked as advertised I would probably give it a 5/5. But, since “Browse all Games” is broken, it gets a 3.
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Great little app if a bit console centric
Clean and appealing interface that as you might expect is console focused, pc users are something of an afterthought. as any searched for content will default to a console version of the game, that cannot be downloaded and the pc version will be somewhere at the bottom of the search results, only a upright box to indicate pc compatibility and any remote downloaded will default to drive-c or boot drive regardless of the default drive set on your gamepass pc app.
This is not a nock against Microsoft, this app and game-pass shows a lot of promise, would like a clean up of the Microsoft rewards section in regards to daily weekly and monthly quest, as it stand it takes multiple taps of the display to reach full summary of progress on any quests, and as you might expect many quest cannot register on pc but can be sidestep with the use of x-cloud where all achievements are tracked accurately, but some are not achievable such as download 5 games on the go or remotely via app, simply will not register on pc.
Overall good experience that needs tightening up.
This is not a nock against Microsoft, this app and game-pass shows a lot of promise, would like a clean up of the Microsoft rewards section in regards to daily weekly and monthly quest, as it stand it takes multiple taps of the display to reach full summary of progress on any quests, and as you might expect many quest cannot register on pc but can be sidestep with the use of x-cloud where all achievements are tracked accurately, but some are not achievable such as download 5 games on the go or remotely via app, simply will not register on pc.
Overall good experience that needs tightening up.
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Great service and good app
Gamepass is phenomenal value and works effortlessly. The app also makes it quick and simple to see what’s new, what’s leaving, games added to your “play later” list, categorises games nicely and helps you discover games you wouldn’t have known about otherwise. Using the app to remotely install games onto your console is a great feature which I use often
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Needs a better incentive for casual players
My one complaint is it’s not the best for semi active players.(that maybe go a few weeks without playing). Spitballin here but I think people that cancel subscription should receive an offer to buy a game one might be far into at a greatly discounted price once they have canceled their subscription to game pass. After being a loyal subscriber.
More than the discount you offer to game pass customers at the moment. If me or anyone else has paid for 2 years and played 3 games like me
I think all parties would benefit from appreciating the money vs use ratio that if fixed in my opinion would convince more people to sign up for this awesome sounding but flawed program.
To be clear I still pay for and support game pass.
More than the discount you offer to game pass customers at the moment. If me or anyone else has paid for 2 years and played 3 games like me
I think all parties would benefit from appreciating the money vs use ratio that if fixed in my opinion would convince more people to sign up for this awesome sounding but flawed program.
To be clear I still pay for and support game pass.
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More than I could ask for.
I don’t know what else to say except this goes beyond my expectations for any video game streaming service I couldn’t have imagined how well this is actually gone and proceeded to be a success. Technically I’m an older gamer and I’ve been playing for a long time I particularly love the fact I can play all the Metroid Vania style gamesOn my iPad or my phone.I think if I actually utilized all the different capabilities of the Xbox serviceIt could be a very fulfilling lifestyle including playing deep or shallow games and having deep or shallow relationships with people who play those games. Personally I play Xbox games mostly by myself but with all the new ways to engage other gamers I intend to build on my friend list and really get into this as a lifestyle. Xbox has clearly made it service top shelf, Class AAA,And I’m confident by the track record that it’s only gonna get better. keep it up Xbox,Much due respect For how well you treat your customers. What else can I say? Xbox game pass is the best.
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