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can we install from the Microsoft store? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm not able to find this answer in old posts. Can we install games from the Microsoft store? I just claimed a free copy of Fallout 76 on PC from Prime Gaming and the MS store is telling me I need the XBOX app which sounds really weird to me.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (7 children)

It's one of my only regrets from switching to linux full time last summer: the PC side of my GamePass Ultimate subscription is now useless because it requires Windows. I get it, but it still bums me out.

On the plus side, I prepaid using some crazy scam/exploit/deal/whatever from SlickDeals so it cost me like less than $100 for three years. And since I still use it on my Xbox regularly, I feel like it was still a... ... slick deal.

[–] RayOfSunlight 19 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Suscriptions are good for short-term users, but bad for long-term users.

Not to mention the games are not really yours.

And these days almost everything is Suscription based, and i hate it.

[–] hydroel 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, except for GOG, none of the games bought on digital stores are ever really yours. See the recent debacle about The Crew.

[–] RayOfSunlight 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah i hate that, since when those mf call the shots? Screw them, if buying is not owning, piracy is not stealing(never was to begin with).

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