A new report says that Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass subscription service added $8,763 worth of games in the US during 2023, compared to paying $203.88 for 12 months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate.
    • PenguinTD@lemmy.caEnglish
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      10 months ago

      No, PSN once you claim a “free” game you can’t buy them even if they are on sale. You have to cancel sub, wait until sale, buy the game.

      • Kamikazimatt@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Epic games says I own a game but it’s the same where I don’t actually own it, I just own a license to download the game from their servers. Pretty sure it’s the same on PSN, too

        Maybe I misunderstood the original question

        • PenguinTD@lemmy.caEnglish
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          10 months ago

          It’s quite different though.

          PSN:

          • you get access to the “claimed” monthly free games as long as you have subscription
          • you can’t download or keep playing the “claimed” games if your subscription expired.
          • those claimed game will shown as “in library” and can’t be purchased even if there is a on-going sale.
          • if you paid for a plus member extra bonus discount game, it’s still yours if your sub expired.

          Epic:

          • you can download the game and keep them somewhere, as long as the auth token can verify you own the game and not expired. (similar to Steam I think the token is valid for a week if your internet goes out. it will ask you to go into offline mode as well. )
          • this works for both free game they gave out and the one you paid for with money.

          I don’t know how the higher tier of PSN and GamePass works regarding the access of game you “played”.