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Article #696916Re: XBox or Playstation
From: Spalls Hurgenson
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2016 15:07
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2016 15:07
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On Tue, 8 Nov 2016 22:33:03 +0000 (UTC), rri...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca (Ross Ridge) wrote: >Both the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One also require a subscription fee >to play online, but the PlayStation 3 doesn't. Also note that the "free" >games you get are tied to your subscription. Once you cancel your Xbox >Live Gold (or PlayStation Plus) suscription you can no longer play those >games until you resubscribe. You do get to keep any games you bought >on discount however. The latter is not correct, at least not for free games on the XBox 360. If you have an XBox Gold (paid) subscription, get a free game, and later let your subscription lapse to Silver (unpaid), you can still continue to play any of those games on your consoles harddrive without limitation. I believe there are issues if your harddrive dies or you get a replacement XBox360 (and perhaps if you delete the game from your current HDD and want to re-download/re-install) but so long as the games are on your console already, it doesn't matter if you are a paid or free subscriber. Any games you actually /paid/ for remain yours regardless of your subscription status. Of course, any multiplayer aspects of those games - paid or free - are useless if you aren't gold, but that's not of particular concern to me ;-) (I just tested on my own XBox360 and yup, all those freebie games-for-gold games I downloaded are still playable, despite the fact I stopped paying for a Gold subs two or three years ago) Microsoft may have changed things with the XBoxOne but at least with the XB360, you can keep playing those free games even if you don't pay for the Gold subscription anymore.
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