Xbox Gold Members Get Additional Free Game

[Liv6]

Xbox One owners will soon get a bit more value out of their optional $60 (or less) annual membership. Starting in July, Microsoft will begin offering two free Xbox One games to Gold members as part of its existing Games With Gold program every month. Xbox One owners will be able to download Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag starting on July 1 and indie puzzle-platformer So Many Me on July 16. A similar twice-monthly release schedule for free Xbox One games will continue into the future, Microsoft said.
 

Gold members will also be able to download two Xbox 360 games each month, as they have since the program began in June of 2013. Until now, though, Microsoft has generally made only one Xbox One title available through Games for Gold each month. As usual, Xbox One Games for Gold titles claimed and downloaded during their monthly availability window will be playable as long as the Gold membership is maintained (Xbox 360 games can be kept permanently, regardless of future membership).

It sounds like Microsoft is trying to give increased incentive to gamers to join their program in order to gain more money. They must be hurting. Is anyone a member of this program? If so, is it worth it?

 

[asbrown]

I haven't signed up so far. Last I looked into it all you'd really be buying was a membership to play online with other people, and there are other options for that kind of thing. They say that members get discounts on other games, but there was no way to find out which games those would be. Xbox games come out rather slowly compared to playstation anyway. Overall I haven't really heard a compelling argument for signing up yet.