What Did You Think Of Xbox Games With Gold In 2022?

@Feffster That’s my point – you talk about improving the ‘quality’ by offering games that are objectively ‘worse’ than what was offered – ‘older’ and dated games built for simplistic hardware versus these newer indies that reviewed generally above average.

If the only reason you (and others) are basing their ‘quality’ concerns on whether its a game you’ve heard of before or not, then that is rather pathetic. I can understand that people will feel that the ‘quality’ is directly linked with Price and therefore the lack of any AAA games is going to affect their view of the service and make them feel like its simply not good enough.

But what you said doesn’t make sense, swap out some of those ‘lower’ budget games built by ‘small teams’ for some old 20+ yr old game dug up from the grave of history, ported to modern hardware as cheaply as possible and sold at the same price as ‘new’ games developed from scratch by indie devs?

You talk about agreeing that the ‘quality’ isn’t there and yet mention swapping out ‘brand new’ games from the past few years in favour of games from over 20yrs ago that are certainly no ‘better’ and by modern standards, arguably much more basic/worse than the same priced games we have been getting.

I could understand it if you were citing games like Halo, Forza, Gears as these were made by MS and would increase the ‘value’ of Gold as these are AAA games costing more – let alone all the 3rd Party games they ‘could’ offer from the XB1 era onwards – games Sony seem to be able to offer on their PS+ Essential tier.

But I don’t understand how you can think some really old games are somehow ‘better’ quality than much newer, more modern games built for more modern hardware, often scoring above average when reviewed too.

For some, an overall ‘improvement’ would be at least 1 AAA game a quarter or better still, at least 1 a month – now they have stopped offering 360 and older era games to make up for the ‘loss’ of those. Its a ‘value’ thing – had been 4x $20 games – now 2x $20 games instead of any $60 games…

The ‘quality’ most are referring to in terms of ‘lacking’ is that AAA quality titles, not substituting some $20 games with other $20 that are objectively ‘worse’ as you seemed to want.