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

    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”.