Xbox Game Pass Discounts Gone

This sale is kinda a joke by having 50% off on a route you don’t even get a full timetable for

 

Pretty underwhelming and you can only buy it for TSW 5. Might be a trap.

 

If you buy the TSW5 version you get the TSW 6 version for free

 

- TSW5 Standard Edition 80% off
- Great western Express - 70% off
- DB 101 - 60% off
- Hauptstrecke Rhein- Ruhr - 60% off"
- HSP 46 pack - 25% off
- Spirit Of Steam - 70% off
- Thomas and Friends + West Somorset Railway bunle - 30% off
- New York - Trenton 60% off
- Frankfurt Sbahn - 50% off
- Harlem Line 70% off
- RailHead Treatment Train 50% off



Everything ive found so far

 

I bought the standard edition on sale to get WCMLS seen as for future games freight seems to be locked behind that 66. But then £7 for all 3 of last year's core routes, I'll take it

 

Microsoft becoming more greedy than Sony. I never thought I’d see the day.

 

I've been playing TSW5 on Game Pass, but buying the standard edition for £7.99 means that the 3 core routes are now available to me in TSW6. Plus TSW5 won't be on Game Pass for ever so now there's no need to worry about it dropping off the service.

 

I remember getting TSW3 standard edition for 7.99 euro not long after TSW4 launch. Same reasoning: 3 routes for a very low price.
I'm happy to get TSW5 standard routes at similar price, and I also sprung 18 euro for the Frankfurt S-Bahn, as I like practicing my PZB skills.

 

Microsoft have removed all of their discounts - Something is happening for sure.

 

It's been in the news.

 

Yep - TL;DR MS have said that they are replacing the 10% Game Pass discount with a bump in the number of Reward points awarded to Game Pass members for purchases.

 

Not going to lie I had a huge smile while watching the collapse of gamepass because hopefully it fixes the biggest thing that makes the Xbox version bad, being the lack of sales

 

I think your schadenfreude is premature, to be honest - it seems that many people are dropping from Ultimate to Premium rather than unsubbing, and in any case MS has too much invested in Game Pass to let it "collapse" any time soon.

Not sure I follow your comment about a "lack of sales" making "the Xbox version bad". Are you saying that because of Game Pass, TSW sales are less than expected and the game is therefore bad?

 

A lot of the discussion around GamePass is about "the little guy". Small developers not making as much money as they would have, if they sold the title instead of going through GamePass.
What they don't realize is a little money is better than no money. Based on my personal experience, some of these titles would never be purchased. But being free with GamePass, we gave them a chance; downloaded, played a bit, deleted. I'm also guilty of hunting for (G) by downloading titles with easy achievements. But, had the game not been on GamePass, I would have never bought it.

 

I also downloaded some games I wouldn't have bought outright, but found them great, and bought them to support the devs and keep the game in my collection. There's two sides to this coin, and there are benefits like this for the devs, too.

 

Ironically years ago you could earn just as many points , it was far easier to obtain and have discounts.

 

If im correct you get only rewards no discounts anymore.....
https://www.ign.com/articles/micros...gives-subscribers-more-rewards-points-instead

 

they lowered the amount of points for non gamepass players. Before you got 10 points a day for playing a game, it's now 5. Don't know the weekly bonus, but I'm not suprised when it is the half of the 150 it was.

 

wow i missed this entirely. so no discounts at all now. i don't play enough to build up enough rewards for gift cards etc so probably will just cancel game pass now