hey PC world fans Adam here with Elena hi everybody
and we're here to talk about the Xbox game pass Ultimate Edition and why it
might make sense for PC people because the sale or whatever the the pre-release
kind of stuff that's going on is gonna end soon so if you're sitting on the
fence maybe we can help you decide whether to do it or not
but first why don't you recap until people what the hell this deal is okay
so at e3 Microsoft announced that they were launching game paths for PC which
is basically kind of like a Netflix subscription for games where it's just
an unlimited library of unlimited sorry unlimited access to a library of games
that you can just play for as long as you're subscribed and the the library is
different than the Xbox version for the console so two different libraries two
different services you're signing up right
there's overlaps in the titles that you have access to obviously but right now
the PC versions and beta open betas where I think they said it launched and
then they added that with no additional charge to their Xbox game pass
ultimate bundle which which formerly included Xbox Live Gold which is the
service you need for playing multiplayer online and also getting like you know
free games not on the PC just shown the console this is just so cold and then
there's the standard Xbox game pass subscription for Xbox one not was the
bundle originally and now they're adding Xbox sorry Xbox game pass for PC to that
and it remains at the $15 per month price but there when they announced it
at e3 and this is old news but when they announced that you through they said hey
we're gonna let everyone try it for a month if you pay a dollar okay dollar
it's not too bad the thing is is that if you read the fine print but if you read
the entirety of their news posts about this they actually specifically said
when you activate the trial you will convert any existing time
that you've already paid for Xbox Live Gold and/or Xbox game pass to ultimate
ok that essentially upgrades any existing subscriptions you have to the
new servers to the higher-end service without paying more than that dollar if
you're a PC game you might have looked at this and thought you know that's not
for me I'm not gonna buy gold I mean I play online for free it's a great thing
about play on xbox I don't do any of that I don't need to buy it you would
miss out actually because and here's why so if you're interested in game pass for
PC like if you want access to Microsoft's first party titles like halo
sea of thieves Gears of War cetera dandy yeah yeah day in date and you're like
great I'm gonna sign up for the beta which is only five dollars a month right
now that's way cheaper than ultimate authority extended to do that because
the beta will end and when it ends it will go up in price to the $10 the
normal $10 rate but if you do this deal what you can essentially do is lock in
up to three years of that $5 rate if I start $5 per month rate so what you
would do even though not subscribe to any Xbox services yet you would go buy
Xbox Live Gold which is a cheaper of the two services that you can do this
conversion on you would buy three years of that so that's like a hundred dollars
that you pay the additional dollar to convert over to ultimate and then you
have basically locked in that $5.00 per month rate for the part that you care
about which is game Pass for PC okay so so you would you would buy the hundred
and eighty dollars worth of gold first and then sign up for the dollar trial
and then it converts it yeah for up to three yes
okay one of the reasons why we're mentioning this is because it is a
really good deal it's not something that I don't know and I don't know if a lot
of PC gamers are really thinking about it because it's so you know console
focus no and then also you know I verified with Microsoft you know how the
beta pricing works out over the long term okay it's basically going with a
known quantity verse is unknown okay and essentially saying
if you lock in now you're gonna get that five dollar beta pricing for at least
three years if as long as you're willing and able to pay up for okay so but what
if what if the beta lasts two years and it stays at five dollars and thank you
but then you get an extra year get next two year or five dollars now the lasts
for three years which I don't think it will then you're not really okay you're
not really out anything also the one potential downside which I don't really
think would happen is that maybe you sign up for it and you decide that it's
not for you it works out horribly then you've you know invested $180 and you
can't get that back but I think Microsoft's only going to add two
ultimate like I could see them eventually putting in access to X cloud
or exiled servers someday maybe potentially so could just get better so
they're obvious downside for a lot of people is that you will have to play
through Windows the Windows Store yeah correct knots which I mean which they
are making some changes you know they announced 32-bit apps they announced
moving away from WWE whatever yeah that thing is so I don't know we I mean we
know a couple people are interested in this you signed up for yourself didn't
you oh yeah but I'm a multi-platform gamer
which is a dirty word around this office oh yeah Gordon's gonna bust down the
door at any minute so yeah if you're interested in it you know let us know
mitt maybe tell us if you've already signed up for what what you would be
looking for in the future especially the people who are just PC gamers is it
worth it for you we want to hear and then if you want a full breakdown of the
how to I will link Alana's awesome article in the description and you can
kind of see the the exact steps on how to do it so thank you for doing this at
work Elena yeah and and sorry you know if we're flooding the the stream with
with Xbox content but guess what this Xbox game passed for PC isn't too bad of
a deal especially this deal so stay tuned for more videos on PC world we'll
see you later