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Xbox Game Pass Losing Shadow of the Tomb Raider and 4 Other Games

There's currently five games listed as "leaving soon." These games include: Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Rage, Pumped BMX Pro, The Jackbox Party Pack 2, and Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two.

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darthv721564d ago

Out with the old, in with the new.

I like that they rotate games and sometimes the one on the outs get put into GwG for those who arent GP members.

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SyntheticForm1564d ago

This is what Game Pass is.

The people pretending that games leaving the service is bad or wrong are disingenuous trolls and poor ones at that. The only thing that was 'spun' here was negativity born out of tribalism or hatred for Xbox and Microsoft.

Enjoying the service and currently playing Children of Morta and enjoying it.

kreate1563d ago

Late commenter here but does anyone know when "soon" is? I'll do the $1 dollar gamepass just to play shadow of the tomb raider. But I need about a week to beat it.

Kornholic1563d ago

How on earth can a diminishing game library be a good thing?

KillBill1563d ago

Same people that lauded PS Now for including AAA titles for only a few months go crazy when a game that has been on GamePass for much longer is finally replaced.

https://imgur.com/a/cfhRW5g

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CaptainHenry9161564d ago

I'm glad gamepass is cheap in PC

Dragonborn123451564d ago

Next Gen, best way is to own a PS5, Switch and a Pc.(Gamepass on Pc)

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Az1ner1564d ago

Naw, series X, switch, ps5. Don't speak for everyone.

Donnie811564d ago

Why own a ps5 if you can play all PlayStation games on pc?

MasterCornholio1564d ago

@Donnie

"Why own a ps5 if you can play all PlayStation games on pc?"

You would need a pretty powerful PC to emulate a PS5. That isn't feasible for most people.

Stevonidas1564d ago

You could BUY a PS5, SeX, Switch, and new OLED TV with HDR for less than the cost of a top-end gaming PC.

RedDevils1563d ago

@Donnie81 You're a clown. When someone said the xsx games can be play on PC, you think it cool to say PS5 games can be play on PC. When you know fully well maybe a really old games from Playstation might be available on PC. While games on xsx will likely be on PC first day release.

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crazyCoconuts1564d ago

Agreed. They list the $5 as introductory price but it's very reasonable

crazyCoconuts1564d ago

PS Now is listing the expiry dates for the games that cycle out on their marketing page now - nice to see that transparency. I would hate having to schedule which game I play based on when they're leaving but I guess you at least know in advance.

Daz1564d ago

Well gampass has a leaving soon to so could play them first.

Christopher1564d ago

Yeah, but that's usually only a one week or so notice. PSNow does do it from the get-go. I would much prefer GamePass copy Sony on that the same way Sony copied downloading games to PS4 for PSNow.

KillBill1563d ago

@Christoper - you are usually notified at the beginning of the month on what games are leaving at the end of the month.

PS Now does list when their games will leave but they have such a limited time on many of their bigger titles that it is relatively pointless for the service at times. I mean 'Horizon Zero Dawn' and 'Uncharted: The Lost Legacy' were just added January 2020 and will be gone after first week in April. Wow... games that are 2 1/2 - 3 years old and they only get a small 4 month window?

Persona 5 was another recent addition that only saw a 4 month window. What is up with their 4 month window on bigger games? And why are they showing PUBG leaving in March 2020? Isn't that a free to play game???

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SyntheticForm1564d ago

That extra transparency is convenient.

I'd like to see Game Pass do the same thing and inform us of exactly how long we have to play.

Tedakin1563d ago

These games were up for over a year. If you didn't play it in that year, well...

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neutralgamer19921564d ago

Legit question why do games leave psn now and gamepass? Like Xbox live and playstation market place why can't both sony and ms keep the games and keep adding more?

Vanfernal1564d ago

My guess is some accord with the developers. I would think they give x amount of money to have the game on Game Pass and possibly some royalties when people play those games but eventually that deal expires.

The Wood1564d ago

Licensing agreements maybe or maybe each service doesn't want to keep giving them their cuts for an ever growing library. Think of it like this. 20 games get a cut of £$x. now add 20 more games. . Now each have to get a cut out of the same £$x. Someone somewhere has to lose out

rainslacker1564d ago

They pay the publishers to be able to offer them on the service. They set this time in advance. Keeping them on there would mean having to keep paying the publishers a recurring charge, and eventually it would end up being a lot of money being paid out than they're bringing in.

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NeoGamer2321564d ago

I think it depends on the agreement with the publisher/developer.

Some games are probably licensed to the service for a certain period of time at a certain fixed dollar amount. Thus an expiry.

Others may be licensed based on how many times they are downloaded or hours played so their expiry date does not matter.

Christopher1564d ago

Games on rental services, much like programs on Netflix or Amazon Prime, are leased to the company for a period of time. In order to keep them there they would have to be re-leased. Oftentimes that's not worthy it as they would rather spend that money on other games rather than keeping the same games on there forever without much change.

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The Tomb Raider Survivor Trilogy's Take on Lara Croft Deserved More Recognition

The Survivor Trilogy was a drastic reimagining of Lara Croft and Tomb Raider, and it provokes changes for the character that are truly fantastic.

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isarai487d ago (Edited 487d ago )

Deserves less IMO, i think the 1st in the new trilogy was a perfect 1st step for the new direction. The next 2 games were half steps at best. Not only that, every character in the series including Lara is just annoying and doesn't make sense in terms of motive, like yes they have a motive, but none of it seems proportional to the lengths they are willing to go through for it. The most annoying thing is every one of the games say "become the Tomb Raider" yet 3 games later and we're still not there? No thanks. Then there's the mess of the 3rd game, massive skill tree that serves almost no purpose as there's literally only like 3-4 short encounters in the whole game, and they took till the 3rd game to finally manage some decent puzzles even remotely close to previous games in the series. Nah, the trilogy infuriated me to no end as a long time fan of the series, i hope we get better going forward cause that crap sucked.

Army_of_Darkness485d ago

The first in the trilogy was my favorite. I thought they were going into the right direction with that one until the second one came out and seemed like a graphical downgrade but the gameplay was okay. As for the Third, Graphics were really nice but it was kinda boring me to death with its non-stop platforming and exploring with not enough action! Well, for me anyway...

DeathTouch485d ago

Graphics on the 3rd one were abysmal. It’s more colorful and has more variety, but everything else was a noticeable downgrade.

The more open world with NPC quests was also handled very poorly, to the point I missed Angel of Darkness.

thesoftware730485d ago

I know it is your opinion, but she did progress as a character in each game, she even got more muscular and seasoned.

That is the thing, people first complained that there was not enough platforming and actual tomb raiding in the first and second games. Shadow remedied that and kept the combat elements.

3-4 encounters? huh? did we play the same game? there was plenty of combat and, the skill tree did matter, like being able to hang enemies from trees, set explosives traps on bodies, being able to counter, and that are just a few of the combat skills. The skill tree also had things like being able to hold your breath underwater longer, crafting upgrades, zipline upgrade, and climbing upgrades that all changed how you can approach situations.

Not knocking your opinion, but we definitely had different experiences. I had 98% completion on the shadow.

SoulWarrior485d ago (Edited 485d ago )

Sorry but i'm with him about the low number of encounters, the game throws loads of weapons and skills you're way with a comparatively low amount of places to actually use them, so they felt under utilised.

-Foxtrot486d ago

Yeah...no

It was awful, for THREE GAMES it was "become the Tomb Raider" where she went back to square one after each game. Not to mention after a huge reaction of killing someone for the first time she then becomes Rambo straight after and goes on a slaughter spree without a single other reaction. Her development was all over the place.

She was whiney, weak and in later game a little arrogant and selfish

Oh and the voice actress compared to the previous ones was not as good

Lara Croft deserved better and while they are decent games as they are, we deserved actual Tomb Raider games, we could have had better survival games if they just stuck with the original Lara Crofts origin about her plane going down. Surviving 2 weeks in the Himalayas...I'd have liked to seen that, who knows what mystical threat she could have faced in the mountains or underground some secret concealed cave.

Tacoboto485d ago

I thought Shadow of the Tomb Raider had better gameplay than Rise, but it annoyed me the most of the trilogy when I stopped to think about the story.

It's like they deliberately decided to make her unlikeable and did nothing to make the character you're playing as likeable or have even one sign of humility.

SoulWarrior486d ago

2013 I thought was a fine entry, but Rise and especially Shadow were painfully mediocre follow ups imo, I really didn't like how selfish and angry her character was in those two.

Terry_B485d ago

No. Please forget the crap completely.

northpaws485d ago

First one was decent, played through it twice.
Second one was okay, played through it once.
Third one was really bad, tried twice a year apart, still can't get through the first two hours, it is just really bad.

thesoftware730485d ago

Honest question, what did you find bad about it? the opening 2 hrs of Shadow were fantastic imo.

The opening was very similar to the first 2, what did you find really bad?

Not looking for an argument, just an honest question.

Starman69485d ago

3rd one just didn't feel like a tomb raider game. Possibly because the development was passed to another development team. Big mistake! Microsoft killed tomb raider making the first game a timed exclusive. Never recovered after that.

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Assassin's Creed Odyssey available on PC and Xbox Game Pass today

Ubisoft's brilliant Assassin's Creed Odyssey will become available via Xbox and PC Game Pass today, Microsoft has annou…

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RavenWolfx607d ago

At the time of this comment, I am not seeing Odyssey on Xbox or PC yet.

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Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Submerged, Knockout City bundle free at Epic Games Store

Starting today, Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition, Submerged, and a Knockout City bundle are free at Epic Games Store. The free game offers run until September 8 at 11 AM Eastern. Once you claim them, they're yours to keep.

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