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kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:
gamerforever wrote:Ea play only converts to 2 months game pass, so do not get it anymore.

I was just about to post this. Cheers for taking the time to make people aware.

No probs, just glad i and a few others got in there before this happened. Its more in line with the gold to gpu conversion, which makes sense i guess, but is a signal that these game pass deals aren’t going to last forever. Glad i have just under 36 months left on mine. Its tempting to use my reward points on monthly gpu now, and can already get 3 as i’m on 36k nearly now. Obviously will need to wait a few months as 36 months is the maximum you can have at any time.

gamerforever wrote:Ea play only converts to 2 months game pass, so do not get it anymore.

Glad I topped up just 2 weeks ago for another year of GPU

gamerforever wrote:
kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:
gamerforever wrote:Ea play only converts to 2 months game pass, so do not get it anymore.

I was just about to post this. Cheers for taking the time to make people aware.

No probs, just glad i and a few others got in there before this happened. Its more in line with the gold to gpu conversion, which makes sense i guess, but is a signal that these game pass deals aren’t going to last forever. Glad i have just under 36 months left on mine. Its tempting to use my reward points on monthly gpu now, and can already get 3 as i’m on 36k nearly now. Obviously will need to wait a few months as 36 months is the maximum you can have at any time.

Indeed. I was acutally on the CD keys site last night (i have dropped below 24 months of subscription left). As EA Play was back up to 19.99 there i did not bother buying any - i'm glad it had gone up or i would have been getting a worse deal!

KingK wrote:
gamerforever wrote:Ea play only converts to 2 months game pass, so do not get it anymore.

Glad I topped up just 2 weeks ago for another year of GPU

Same! Looks like most of us got in just in time.

Moggy wrote:
KingK wrote:
gamerforever wrote:Ea play only converts to 2 months game pass, so do not get it anymore.

Glad I topped up just 2 weeks ago for another year of GPU

Same! Looks like most of us got in just in time.

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LewisD wrote:
Moggy wrote:
KingK wrote:
gamerforever wrote:Ea play only converts to 2 months game pass, so do not get it anymore.

Glad I topped up just 2 weeks ago for another year of GPU

Same! Looks like most of us got in just in time.

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Just noticed John Lewis has stock of the Series S on their website. Not sure how scarce the S is compared to the X but that’s the first time I’ve seen either of them in stock at John Lewis.

twitter.com/majornelson/status/1394319892585717764

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Didn't realize that on PS you have to upload your PS4 saves to the cloud then download them back down again on the PS5 and restore licences... I presume this is all happening on Xbox too and it's just automated?

We do get that 'syncing' thing for a second when you boot up a game but like, I already play on 2 different Xbox's seemlessly and with Xcloud going forward it would be a pain to upload and download every single time.

Yeah, it’s all automated on Xbox and is almost seamless, so we kind of take it for granted. It would be a real chore to have to do it manually. I saw this yesterday and thought it was very cool:

twitter.com/Keevahh/status/1394758346973097986

rinks wrote:Yeah, it’s all automated on Xbox and is almost seamless, so we kind of take it for granted. It would be a real chore to have to do it manually. I saw this yesterday and thought it was very cool:

twitter.com/Keevahh/status/1394758346973097986

Wow!

twitter.com/Dachsjaeger/status/1389867512989290498

Same goes for Nintendo. Bastards. Both of em.

Pedz wrote:Same goes for Nintendo. Bastards. Both of em.

Jaysus. I hope Live Gold goes soon enough as well, kinda bizarre especially now with cross play, smart delivery and PC players not paying for online.

I helped my daughter get an Xbox S today, a pawn store I have had a fair bit of retro stuff from had a boxed second hand one in, looked perfect like new and they wanted £200 for it , I asked if they'd knock anything off for a regular and they said they'd knock a tenner off. So as my daughter's just finished all her final assessments for the A level and AS level she's done this year and been predicted a B and an A I said I'd reward her by giving her £100 and me and my dad gave her the ok to take the other £90 from a Savings account we have kept for her for Uni.

It's a tiny little thing but I also think it's awesome, it won't take up much room in her uni accommodation but will help keep her busy when she's not working

More negative chatter from alex about sony. Sony have to pay for that infrastructure, why wouldn’t they charge for it? People pay for apple and google storage. The entitlement is embarassing.

gamerforever wrote:More negative chatter from alex about sony. Sony have to pay for that infrastructure, why wouldn’t they charge for it? People pay for apple and google storage. The entitlement is embarassing.

It's not entitlement, it's Sony and Nintendo either coming up with barebones, backward online features and infrastructure or coming up with the most infuriating, illogical, drawn out steps to do things. Process could be streamlined, made more efficient for the user or implement features that are commonplace elsewhere.

Don't want to start tarring everything with a certain brush, but I live and work in Japan and the notion that it's a technological, futuristic paradise is wildly inaccurate - workplaces and industries don't adopt what we would call common tech, and often seem old-fashioned and outdated.

You only have to go look at the average Japanese website to see how different it is to what we as westerners are used to. They still use Yahoo search and Fax machines here. I'll do something simple like printscreen and my colleagues act like I've basically performed Dark Magic.

I didn't really see why Nintendo and Sony went about some things the way they do, but having lived here in Japan I can definitely understand it. I don't think tech-literacy is as high as back home, and things here often take 5 steps when they could take 2.

In my eyes, the online offerings of Sony and, especially Nintendo are a culture thing. And boneheaded stubbornness with Nintendo. It would not surprise me if it is a group of 60-70 year-old dudes making decisions about their online offerings.

gamerforever wrote:More negative chatter from alex about sony. Sony have to pay for that infrastructure, why wouldn’t they charge for it? People pay for apple and google storage. The entitlement is embarassing.

Revenue and profit are two different things. MS can burn money because they have built up billions, Sony cannot. I see no issue with a £40 a year charge for storage, monthly games and online play!

Yeah, I mean, Sony are basically an indie underdog, right?

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