![]() I live in London, in a rented house with a garden. But – despite what the public would have you believe – us games media types aren’t all living off our PlayStation/Xbox/anti-games lobby bribe money. There was an alternative option: go for the more expensive combined edition where I get Rise and Sunbreak together, for about £20 more. I just wish DLC situations like this didn’t leave consumers in a weird place where they may not be able to access stuff they’ve already paid for. And DLC like Sunbreak is an essential part of the business plan in the age of subscriptions-as-a-service, too fueling whatever Monster Hunter game Capcom is working on next, even indirectly, is fine by me. As developers get put to work harder and publisher margins grow, I’m more eager than ever to support the actual developers crunching away on the frontlines – that’s why I am more than happy to pay good money for the titles I actually want to support (three times over, in some cases). I’m not averse to buying games, let me get that straight. Which feels kinda counter-intuitive to what Game Pass is trying to achieve with its all-you-can-eat buffet promises. Unless I swing for the base game out of my own wallet. Owning the DLC but not the main game puts me in a weird space when it comes to being able to access content I own… given that I access the base game via Game Pass, but now I have a paid expansion on my account, that means that when Capcom inevitably rotates Rise out of the service, I will be left with £30+ of DLC that I cannot access. I have a problem, yes, but that’s not what this piece is about. After the game was added to Xbox Game Pass at the start of the year, I thought I’d jump back in again… little did I know I’d get hooked (again) and go as far as owning the DLC for a third time. For my sins, I own the massive and very good expansion to Monster Hunter Rise, Sunbreak, no less than three times – on Switch, on PC, and now on Xbox. Long-time readers of the site may know this by now I can’t seem to shut the hell up about it. Monster Hunter Rise runs so, so well on Series X. Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown leaves Netflix, Final Fantasy 13 leaves Game Pass, all the worthwhile PlayStation exclusives leave the it-was-never-permanent PS Plus Collection. But, more immediately, we have to contend with things we love dearly cycling in and out of our chosen subscription services. Even the universe itself, ultimately, is running on a clock. ![]() Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and its audiobook, and The Earthborn Trilogy, also on audiobook. Subscribe to my free weekly content round-up newsletter, God Rolls. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to gear myself up to live read an 18 page ability update TWAB on video tomorrow…įollow me on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. It seems likely that Witch Queen is going to be a monster launch on all platforms, and “base” Destiny 2 remains free-to-play, though with more and more content removed, that means less than it used to. It’s easy to imagine if say, Beyond Light saw a massive decline in sales on Xbox due to being on Game Pass, and the playercount increase/MTX spending didn’t offset that, they wouldn’t want to do it again. It stands to reason that a Game Pass deal may not just be the best path forward for all games in all circumstances. We know Xbox head Phil Spencer himself remains a huge Destiny fan, but yeah, Bungie does not seem quite as cozy with Xbox as they did a year ago, for some reason. Rumors that there were large Halo anniversary crossovers planned once upon a time have not panned out, for whatever reason. Just tiny nods like Needler spikes on a piece of armor. Past that, Bungie is about to launch its 30th Anniversary Event at the exact same moment, right when Halo Infinite launches, and yet even though there are big plans to feature weapons and armor from Bungie games like Marathon and Myth, there are zero official Halo crossovers. The two seemed like best friends at this time last year, but since then, Bungie has stated outright that Witch Queen would not be launching on Game Pass like Beyond Light, and now, they are taking all its expansions off the service. ![]() Something a bit…odd seems to be going on with Bungie and Microsoft lately.
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