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Report says Microsoft's Xbox Game Pass added over $8,700 worth of new games in 2023 (www.neowin.net)
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[-] Kamikazimatt@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

Isn’t that how it works on every platform though?

[-] PenguinTD@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

No, PSN once you claim a "free" game you can't buy them even if they are on sale. You have to cancel sub, wait until sale, buy the game.

[-] Kamikazimatt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Epic games says I own a game but it’s the same where I don’t actually own it, I just own a license to download the game from their servers. Pretty sure it’s the same on PSN, too

Maybe I misunderstood the original question

[-] PenguinTD@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's quite different though.

PSN:

  • you get access to the "claimed" monthly free games as long as you have subscription
  • you can't download or keep playing the "claimed" games if your subscription expired.
  • those claimed game will shown as "in library" and can't be purchased even if there is a on-going sale.
  • if you paid for a plus member extra bonus discount game, it's still yours if your sub expired.

Epic:

  • you can download the game and keep them somewhere, as long as the auth token can verify you own the game and not expired. (similar to Steam I think the token is valid for a week if your internet goes out. it will ask you to go into offline mode as well. )
  • this works for both free game they gave out and the one you paid for with money.

I don't know how the higher tier of PSN and GamePass works regarding the access of game you "played".

[-] Lmaydev@programming.dev 1 points 10 months ago

That's every platform, except gog, right?

[-] Kamikazimatt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

As far as I know, more or less yes

[-] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

GoG and FOSS games are the only two options I know of where you can have ownership of a game

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