These only appear if the game in question, is available on Game Pass, EA Play, etc. There's more, Subscription Info displays a banner on some pages.

The other section, Changes that are coming up, kind of warns you about games that are on the way or about to be delisted from a service soon. The primary one is 'Changes that happened', which mentions the games that were added or removed to Xbox Game Pass, and the other services. Mouse over it, and you'll see a few sections, the ones we are interested in are the first two. That's not all, it even launched its own game subscription service (technically it existed since 2016) called EA Play and a higher tier version called EA Play Pro. Electronic Arts returned to Steam last year, and brought nearly every game it released on Origin, to a wider audience. It's actually pretty crazy that you can experience them for about $10 (it used to be $5 before a recent price hike), along with a dozen other games if you can manage to finish them all in 30 days.

But it happens, and this is the reason why some of us like having the game in our library forever.Ī lot of games from Steam are finding their way to Xbox Game Pass (on PC & Console right on day one of their release. So, if you subscribed to play a particular game, and then it gets taken off the list, yeah that's not going to be nice. Every month or so, new games are added to the service, and sometimes old games get removed. The important thing here is that these services don't offer access to the same games permanently. That's actually a smart thing to do, and if I really wanted to play a specific game, I'd do that too. On the other hand, gamers who have access to these game subscriptions tend to enjoy new games for a fraction of the game's cost. I belong to that group for the most part, and my massive backlog helps me with that. Many people wait for a discount to drop before buying new games, and this can take anywhere between a few months to a couple of years or more. I've seen people who don't normally play games, suddenly get an itch to try out a few games, and then go back to being a non-gamer. I prefer buying games digitally, or have the physical copy for my PS4, because I can play the game anytime I want to. Let's take a look at why this could be important for gamers.

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