It’s been amazing value for me - I’d spent a decade away from video games outside of Nintendo, so I had a giant backlog - I’ve played over 100 in the last 12 months on my Series X.

However, I’m noticing diminishing returns, since I’m spending a lot of time on games like Mass Effect, which are cheap to buy. There’s also a lot of games in genres I don’t like e.g JRPG, fighting, sports, and also plainly bad games.

The balance of good new games vs ones leaving the service is pretty poor, too. If I wasn’t locked into another year, I’d drop it for a while.

TLDR - look at the catalogue, work out how much it would cost to buy the games you’d play, and then decide.

It’s been more worth it than any other gaming purchase I’ve ever made. I’ve played several 100 hour AAA games to completion. And then also smaller indie games I’d never have touched otherwise, but ended up loving.

And sometimes I download a game I’m curious about and I don’t like it so I delete it after 10 minutes. I never have to think about that game again. Without game pass it would still be in the back of my head, do I want to play that one someday?

It’s only been $10/month for ultimate because every year in November Target has had 3 month cards on sale and I’ve picked up a set.

I honestly can’t imagine not having it. As a deal it’s been too good to be true. So I don’t expect it to last forever. I imagine the library will be less impressive 5 years from now. But I’m enjoying it while it lasts.

It’s probably the first thing I suggest to people that are not regular gamers, and are getting back into things.

Even for myself, someone who buys plenty of releases, each month I ask myself “Could I maybe unsubscribe from Game Pass?” and then they make announcements of a bunch of cool games appearing on it soon.

Admittedly, psychology results in me playing a number of old, familiar games, but I’m still really happy for the indie games that get attention they otherwise wouldn’t.

I would say yes. For me it’s nice not having to buy random games for my kids on the Xbox that they may or may not keep playing. There’s such a large library on Game Pass for them to mess around with. For me, being able to stream games to my phone/tablet and PC has been a game changer. I usually don’t play faster paced game so the occasional signal dip (only on my phone and tablet) doesn’t bother me and I can play the same save across all devices. And if I’m being honest if I’m on a decent connection the gameplay is perfectly fine mobile.

Depends on your existing library of games.

I am absolutely loving it. I have both a Series X and a Rog Ally. Been playing all the AAA games on the X while leaving the Indies to my Ally.