• frtzngbllr@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      16
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      2 months ago

      For people like me who just adore and love the forza horizon series, it will be the only way to play without windows or repurchasing newer titles on steam. It’s a clear plus in my book. Fuck microslop tho.

          • yogurtwrong@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            arrow-up
            2
            ·
            2 months ago

            Yikes. I don’t play many online games so I am not very knowledgeable on the situation over there. I just used online-fix a few times and it was so horrible I had to buy my second piece of paid software.

    • Pika@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      2 months ago

      I think overall it will be good. We already rely on windows dependent games anyway for 90% of the gaming on the platform. So I don’t see why gamepass would be any different than wine or proton.

      If we were gonna hold that line, then really we should have been super against having any type of transitional layer as a whole. But I don’t think that’s the right choice because the Linux ecosystem is a minority and you’re not going to get that to change anytime soon by making it actively harder for people to want to jump in. I think that it needs all the help that it can get currently.

    • tabular@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      2 months ago

      Moving away from a proprietary OS to a (mostly) software freedom respecting OS is good. A shame that video games are proprietary.

  • auzy1@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    2 months ago

    So, ironically, part of the reason I sold my Xbox was that streaming from Xbox to windows didn’t even work properly.

    I don’t see this as a bad thing for people who want it. Steam doesn’t offer something similar to game pass (I wish they did)

  • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    6
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    2 months ago

    I’m not really sure what game pass is since it appeared so long after I switched to Linux, but I figure that I’ve lived so long without it that it’s not going to matter now.

  • Pika@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    2 months ago

    It’s actually a little surprised that something like this hasn’t been done already. Not having Game Pass on Linux was actually the second biggest reason(the first being price) that I canceled my game pass subscription anyway because I used my computer 90% of the time so it didn’t make sense to keep Game Pass Ultimate. But Game Pass for PC didn’t work on Linux, so it was better off just not having it at all.

    • mursejoy@lemmy.zip
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      2 months ago

      GPU is pretty much the only way that my Series X gets used. We just haven’t consistently bought Xbox games since the 360 era. So it is our smallest digital library and I’d prefer to just not invest in Xbox or Sony at this point.

      • Pika@sh.itjust.works
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        2 months ago

        Yeah, I actually had a similar instance regarding Game Pass.

        The Series X was my first Xbox ever because I had been a Sony fan all my life, but the launch of the PS5, the supply was non-existent. And the only way I could get a Series X was doing their All Access Pass deal, which was the two-year payment plan that gave you Ultimate alongside it.

        I feel like it worked against Microsoft’s favor, because yes, it hooked me on Xbox for two or three years. However, since they forced you to have Game Pass Ultimate along with it, I never purchased any games to get with it. So therefore, when I cancelled my Game Pass subscription at the end of it, I had no reason to turn the console on again.