Modern Warfare 3 Gets Xbox First-Party Treatment With Startup Screen That Rankles Some Fans - IGN
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Xbox marked the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3's campaign with a large splash screen at startup, to the chagrin of some fans.

Xbox users booting up their console today were greeted with a large splash screen prompting them to buy it now that the new campaign is out, and some of them aren’t too happy about it.

  • stillwater@lemm.eeEnglish
    279·
    1 year ago

    the paid Xbox Game Pass which removes games from the library on a regular basis

    This isn’t a fault. It’s a subscription service. It’s not an ever-expanding library of games you keep forever and it was never supposed to be. Many games are only there for a period of time.

    • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      7·
      1 year ago

      Right. But if you are a paying customer, and you’re about to beat a game, and MS removes the game from GP, that’s super fucked.

      Best thing gamers can do right now is not buy Xbox.

    • Showroom7561@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Of course, it’s designed like that, but unlike a movie, some games take dozens of hours to finish. Some games hundreds of hours to explore them in full.

      If I’m only paying to play demos, fine, they can market it that way. But this give and take model fails to work for someone who’s life doesn’t revolve around gaming.

      I have enjoyed Games with Gold, which is no longer offered, but even those “free” games hinged on a subscription. It was a better model than the game pass, since those games remained in your library for as long as you have a subscription.