He's just a PR guy doing fudge all, right?

Oh boy, I remember those discussions on vgchartz years back :)

always wanted to try the mlb the show games it being gamepass is freaking awesome

Kill Grounded

Thankfully It worked for me a few days ago. Was able to get 3 years of gold, and then upgrade for 15 to get GPU expiring in 2024

Talked to my boi Ryuu about this, but getting Biomutant in may would be a great decision. New IP and all. Downloaded and played Outriders, pretty fun so far. Will definitely download and try out the Show. Enjoyed the BIGS on 360. More sim, than arcade, but I'll support it.

Aside from the EA Play stuff, it's really always been like this. I know, cus the first time I had Ultimate, I used a 6 month Live Gold code, cus I was curious to see what it would do. Converted it to 4 months, as advertised here, but this was like...idk...over a year ago. The 1:1 conversion of Gold, or regular GP to GPU has only ever gone one way. As such, we can't really see this as evidence of them changing that.

This isn’t new. I had the same conversion with 3 months of gold in 2019.

Since the Outriders servers have crashed again I'll leave some first impressions. I'm like 4-5 hours in.

The Bad

• The servers suck. This is probably due to the game being on the game pass and having modest success on PC. The servers being cross-play doesn't help either. They really should have had the solo experience playable offline but oh well this only a temporary issue.
• The voice acting is really bad but it's bearable.
• The graphics are dull and I have noticed a fair bit of pop in on the Xbox Series X.
• Having to constantly return to the hub world after each mission sucks. I wish I could easily transition from one mission to another without having to make a pit stop at the main hub but I understand that this si where most of the cutscenes take place and it's essential for the story to be told.
• The first hour of the game is pretty bland. I actually stopped playing the alpha earlier this year because of this opening. The game really does start to be fun the more you play s you unlock more abilities and more loot drops but PCF really should have put more time into the opening because it's going to steer a lot of people away as it did for me when I played the alpha
• There is no mission variety in the main story. You got to an objective place a flag, engage in a firefight, repeat, and then have a boss battle. There are side quests and maybe there is variety there but I have yet to do one.

The Good

• The loading times on the Series X usually take 3-6 seconds. I've seen that it could take upwards to 25 seconds on last-gen so I'm glad they took advantage of the SSD.
• The gameplay here feels really good. I'm a big fan of how the gunplay feels and the animations between shooting, reloading, and using your powers feel really good.
• The powers are amazing and it's really what differentiates the game from stuff like Destiny. You get 3 ability slots that you can use as you unlock more powers and the cooldown is pretty quick so you find yourself constantly using your powers while in Destiny your ability cooldown takes a while and you only have one ability at a time.
• The difficulty is also really good. There is a teir system and its progress ad you play along but you can also adjust down if it's too hard. But overall no gunfight feels like a bleeze or feels too easy. I'm also a big fan of how if I'm at really low health the game rewards you for getting aggressive instead of just hiding being a wall to regen health. For my class, I have the ability where I can steal health from an enemy and my other abilities if I kill an enemy while using an ability on them I gain health so in tight fights, I have to stay mobile and aggressive which adds tot the fun.
• The story and lore is actually pretty interesting but like I mentioned earlier the voice acting sucks so it's hard to get immersed in the world.
• There is a good variety of enemies you fight. I've seen your regular soldiers, super soldiers boss fights, a different variation of monsters with different abilities, and their corresponding bosses.

Overall I'm enjoying the game so far and am excited to play more when the servers are back up. I could actually see myself buying this game if it weren't on game pass if I watched streams or followed the reddit and twitter community for gameplay.

Yes. It was announced at MS showcase

Hi. All , been a long time since I posted in here. Hope everyone is doing well.
I'm happy because on March 12th, I managed to get a : Xbox Series X, Expansion Card, Shock Blue, Pulse Red Controllers