The single most problematic thing where you should start to notice how bad gamepass can be is when you unsubscribe and decide to buy one of the games you've played only to have your savegames in gamepass gulag.

[–] TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is that true? PC, Xbox, or both?

[–] Rayspekt@lemmy.world 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It was on PC. See my other reply for the specifics. Very shitty experience and the dealbreaker around game pass since I've managed not finish multiple games before they dropped out of the service.

Edit: Sorry, mixed it up, it was on PC

[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You are really making a mountain of a mole hill, to get my save from Outer Worlds gamepass to use on steam's version was as easy as just copy pasting the files in another folder

[–] Rekorse@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They absolutely are not and you are lucky you were able to get your save game out. The majority of games have their config and save files encrypted and are completely unusable as far as any other platform goes.

There are some exceptions, mainly games that have official mod support tend to have areas you can access but the majority of others won't.

[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I really don't know what to say, I did this both with Outer Worlds and Code Vein. Just went to PCgamingwiki's entries of the 2 games, saw where the save folders are, and dropped each from the microsoft one to the steam one.

[–] miss_brainfarts@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago

Ah, PC Gaming Wiki, what a fantastic resource. Made realize how many games in my libraries are actually DRM-free

[–] Rekorse@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

Well you aren't going to be able to pick out a trend with only testing two games. Its enough of a problem that I would double check where the save is before starting a game on gamepass.

The last game I tried to move and failed was snowrunner I believe.

[–] Rayspekt@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago

Well it might depend on specific games, but for like a dragon it did not work out in the end.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You can't move the files?

[–] Rayspekt@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I tried to get the save game for yakuza like a dragon and first I had to hack myself into getting permission to access the specific folders ON MY PC. When I managed that I saw that the are in some weird format that supposedly doesn't transfer to steam for example.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm confused. You tell me you had to "hack into your own PC" for the files (which makes absolute no sense at all), while telling someone else this was all on Xbox. Lol which is it?

[–] Rayspekt@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sorry it got mixed up, it was in PC. It's the xboxapps folder or something like that, which windows locks down as a system folder.

[–] TachyonTele@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I really hope you're being sarcastic.

If you're not, and you seriously are this unable to (checking notes) move files from one folder to another... You should probably stay on that Xbox you're now saying you don't have.

[–] Rekorse@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 5 months ago

The poster isnt able to explain themselves but Microsoft encrypts most of the game files for their gamepass games which prevents copy pasting the files elsewhere.

You can move the files but they are useless for any other version, and I believe you can't even copy and paste from gamepass to gamepass either, but I can't say for sure on that.