Why Risk Buying Games When They're All Coming To Game Pass Eventually?

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Remember when you would watch TV, some commercial for a new movie would come on, and your dad would say, “That’s going to be a rental”? I’m assuming we all had the same dad that hated spending money at the movie theater - even though movies used to only cost like $8, but I digress.

We used to rent games too. If you’ve been alive long enough to remember Blockbuster, then you remember the joy of picking a random game off the shelf and taking it home, playing it for 10 minutes, and realizing that Bugs Bunny: Lost in Time is not a very good game. You’d bring it back the next day and just rent Super Mario RPG for the fifth time this month instead.

When Blockbuster closed down and Red Box died out, movies moved towards digital rentals and streaming services, but games didn’t. For a long time the only way to play new games was to buy them full price, sight unseen, or wait years until they hit the bargain bin. In just a few years, Game Pass has managed to bring back that Blockbuster feeling once again. Suddenly, I’m finding myself turning into my father (it happens to everyone), but instead of saying “That’s going to be a rental”, I’m saying “I’ll play it when it comes to Game Pass.”

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It’s becoming exceedingly easy to determine which games will likely end up on Game Pass these days. It seems like anything that has a positive critical reception but modest sales figures will eventually find its way onto the service. It’s a meme on TheGamer Podcast (plug) to say that everything looks like a great Game Pass game, but at this point I can pretty accurately guess which games are coming to Game Pass before they even launch. Aliens: Fireteam Elite, The Forgotten City,