4 Titles Leaving Xbox Game Pass on March 31 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 16 March 2019 / 3,198 Views
Microsoft will be removing four games from the Xbox Game Pass lineup on March 31. However, more games will be coming to the subscription service in April, including Minecraft.
The four games being removed from Xbox Game Pass are:
- Kingdom: New Lands
- Late Shift
- Portal Knights
- Sacred Citadel
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A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel dedicated to gaming Let's Plays and tutorials. You can contact the author at wdangelo@vgchartz.com or on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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I know it's only four games, but this is what really scares me about streaming taking over, in 11 or so years. Games that are streaming-only are in serious danger of just disappearing. Nintendo had a Zelda game on the Sattellaview that was almost lost to history. Parts of the game were broadcast each week, and Nintendo never re-released this game. So it took some serious data-mining from dedicated fans to finally get a ROM of this game working and available to modern audiences.
Same here, and one of the main reasons why I don't support streaming.
Streaming is just a way to play the games not the way you own the games. Streaming will rely on your digital purchases. GamePass is just a digital rental service not a Streaming service.
I'm certain most streaming services will sadly prefer to rent out the games since it's much more profitable, for them as well as their shareholders. But there will be 2 possible business models for that. One, rent a game for X days for Y price, or rent the whole catalogue for price Z. Either way, whoever streams those games makes much more money than allowing the gamers to buy just once and be done with it.
@Bofferbrauer2 They also make a lot of money on full digital sales, I don't see digital purchases disappearing anytime in the future. It makes more sense for a business model to offer both rental and purchase choices. The profits on both are really good.
It will take a long while, that's for sure. But I fear streaming or other paywalls where you have to pay up on a regular basis (Nintendo switch online, anyone?) will be the future for AAA games, and that's a future I don't want to support.
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