
I don’t know if this changes my mind about where to purchase the game because as I said, I’d lose a bunch of progress on PlayStation by switching now. It also shows that Microsoft will not just rely on Bethesda and other first party offerings to keep Game Pass enticing, and will continue to do big third party deals like this. It’s a big deal for both Outriders, which presumably landed a big check from Microsoft to make this happen, and for Microsoft, which boasts Game Pass access to one of the most anticipated games of the spring.


This seems like a pretty slapped-together deal, given the timing. To change their mind now, they’d lose all that demo grinding time.

It’s easy to see a situation where someone may have played on PC and grinded out four characters and a bunch of legendaries, only to see the game go “free” on Xbox. There’s also the issue of where players played the demo, which carries over progress to the final game, but does not have cross save.
