Except games like Wasteland 3, Horizon 4, Gears 5, Infinite, Horizon 5, Flight Sim, Psychonauts 2, Gears Tactics, etc are items you’d find on the menu at that “fancy restaurant chain” and GP users get them day one at no extra cost. And you can take your sweet time and savor them because they never leave the service.

Oh and then if you’re in the mood for “fast food” it also has you covered with games like Madden, Battletoads, Bleeding Edge, all that Japanese junk, Exo One, Sunset Overdrive, Destiny, Deeeer Simulator, UFC, Gang Beasts, etc etc. 

Its really more like a Michelin star establishment that also has a McDonalds on the side that people can drive thru.

Like how a palatable/fancy restaurant chain will have at least a few less healthy options, though that's not what's typically ordered?

Like how a fast food chain will have at least a few healthier options, though that's not what's typically ordered?

Subjective maybe, but objectively we don't watch much anymore. And yes, there might still be good shows, but they are fragmented on different streaming services. We're still subscribed to cable for the live stuff and Netflix for the one streaming service. Limited choice now compared to having pretty much everything on cable before streaming. And annoyingly our internet sucks during prime time, so even the few things we both like on Netflix we often can't watch together after the kids are in bed.

But maybe you have a lists of good stuff we can watch. Light hearted stuff, my wife did absolutely not enjoy squid game. It's not the casual violence, Happy season 1 was good, it's the tone that's different.

Anyway correlation is, we watched a lot more together before streaming took off.

Your already weak analogy is getting worse as you try to stretch it further. If you want to compare it to a restaurant, it offers everything you want from a “fancy chain” as you put it. And offers great appetizers. Hope that helps.

I see your point now, but you're still forgetting something; Even if we envision a future where every single Xbox owner (and fans of MS's games on PC) would stop buying games and decided to just subscribe to GP, that would translate into an insanely high subcriptions revenue (I mean, we would be talking 50m+ of users) not to mention that that is an extremely unlikely scenario.

But I still don't understand where does your concern come from because we have already seen an increase in revenue since Game Pass came into the picture. I mean, why would MS cut the budgets for their games when they are obviously making more money than before? Heck, I'm convinced GP was the sole reason that convinced MS's higher ups to invest $8b in a single year.

I won't be adding (much) to the revenue, but the deal is too good to pass on. $1 for 3 months for PC. I turned recurring billing off, good till Februari 24th. If I get hooked by then I can always extend it. I thought I couldn't get the $1 deal anymore (already used a couple years ago) but it must reset after a while. Now with 2 extra months.

Question: Do I need the XBox app and what do I do about this

It's been like that for 20 minutes, not doing anything. Can I safely kill it or will it screw things up.
It's still active in the task manager using CPU and RAM, but not accessing any files nor the internet.

I quit it, restarted it and it says it can't sign me in. I can sign into my XBox live account on XBox.com, but the app gives 0x87DD005 error code. Which gives nothing https://support.xbox.com/en-US/search?errorCode=0x87DD0005 and I can sign in on that page.

5th time is the charm, signed in. It let me select a drive to install FH5, progress :)

Or not, it took space of my drive but is not installing anything and the Install button is back. I got a locked folder now on my D: Drive, WindowsApps. Denied access as adminstrator. I thought they changed that, WTF.

How do I get my drive space back, how do you get it to install. Ugh already regretting this.

I clicked install again, then it let me click view progress (which I couldn't find anywhere) and it is actually installing FH5.
UI experience is atrocious, but what can you expect for $1 :) 33% done. I cancelled the second install, hopefully things work out.

Might as well pre-install Halo Infinite campaign, check it out if it's worth waiting for co-op for. Requires Unknown disk space (released dec 8). Could at least give me a ballpark figure!

Oddly, much better download speed through the XBox App than the FS2020 installer. It's maxing out my 100 mbps connection, no issues there. (It's listed as SVChost.exe processes, hence I couldn't find it first. The XBox App is only sending/receiving a couple bytes now and then)

It's working now. I think it messed up because I had to change my secondary contact info. I had it set to text message to my land line, yet my landline provider quit their text to speech service, reading out text messages. (phone did not ring, no message) I changed it to a secondary email address but now I get a notification each time I sign in that it will change in a month. Precaution I guess. But it screws up auto sign in things.

Shitty luck... I banked some of that karma and haven't had any issues with broken installs on FS2020 (yet) /knock on wood. So many misery stories of it not downloading or getting stuck in loops or having to download the whole thing over on each start up. For me it's just slow but so far has always worked :)

49% done, 102 GB, big game!

For anyone interested, Halo Infinite Campaign pre-download size is 26.4 GB

Maybe I am cursed. Trying to launch FH5, it says my graphics driver is out of date. Launching NVidea control panel, it just crashes, reporting problem to Microsoft. Reboot first I guess. I will get it to work!

Your weak understanding of it is getting worse as you try to sweep it under. Is an explanation to a misunderstanding now to be known as stretching it, and not further explanation in the form of a reply? So many reaching for the moon in that case.

Do fancy restaurants market themselves as the best deal in the industry? All you can eat for as cheap as possible? Do they only offer typical utensils for consuming that food and not the extra's that add to the experience? Do they change their menu (asap) in a response to compete with fast food directly?

Who offers the "Dollar Menu"?

I don't give a damn if it's sustainable or not for MS, MS says it's happy about it, true or false I don't care, it's its own business. I'd hate it only if it damaged 3rd parties or if it pushed them to cancel the biggest games or split them in parts.