Outriders and MLB The Show 21 display the value of Xbox Game Pass
(Windows Phone Central)

Xbox Game Pass has no right to be this good. I`m always skeptical of Xbox as a gaming brand. A lot of aspects of its structure, like Xbox Live Gold (which is now part of `Xbox Network`), seem like pretty transparent ploys to separate customers from their money without offering any real value—a view Microsoft occasionally tacitly admits to and agrees with. So when Microsoft announced Xbox Game Pass back in 2017, I wasn`t in any hurry to give the company my money. Fast-forward to now, and every single month brings more and more reasons to have a Game Pass subscription. This month`s reasons are MLB The Show 21 and Outriders. Both are $69.99 titles on current-gen consoles ($59.99 on last-gen), and yet, you can get day-one access to both for $15 per month on Game Pass. The insanity of these two games being on Game Pass can`t be understated. Outriders is a third-party Square Enix game, and seeing third-party titles hit a subscription service that isn`t theirs on day one is rare. On th...