So... Will We Ever Actually Own The "Xbox One" Games With Gold Or Will We Always...

Saeleth · Aug 23, 2018

Terms are that you have access as long as Gold remains active. Should it lapse they freeze access to them then turn it back on once you renew Gold

brandiesel1 · Aug 23, 2018

I mean if you have got an xbox the chances that you are going to have a gold subscribtion are pretty high anyways. Most games even require a gold subscription.

Although it would be nice to keep offline games even without the gold subscription I don't think it will happen any time soon.
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You’d be surprised. I know a few people that only buy gold for a month here and there if there is a multiplayer game they want to play. Otherwise, they couldn’t care less.

Abdullah_11 · Aug 23, 2018

Look if you have the gold you can play gwg games and when the gold ends you can't play the game until you get gold again!

Tormaz · Aug 24, 2018

I would guess that most likely it will always require an Xbox Live Gold Subscription to keep playing games with gold titles.

Ambassador Kingz · Aug 24, 2018

I agree with several here, if you have xbox you're probably not going to end your gold sub anytime soon. It is possible that at the next generation of console they might go ahead and just let everyone have what they downloaded. similar to whats happened
with 360 and GWG.

pawncrackers · Aug 24, 2018

Possibly, in time, the Xbox One games will be ours to keep permanently, but you may be looking at many years down the line.

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Spazpol · Aug 24, 2018

no, and the logic behind it as I see it, if you pay full retail (say $60) for 1 year of gold, and you got to keep all the titles even after your gold lapses that they gave out Microsoft in essence paid you to be gold for a year. So part of the contract
is if you want to continue to have access to the free games you have accessed, you have to keep up your gold subscription. Kind of like how game pass works as well, except if you forget to snag a license on the games with gold, you have to go out and purchase
it if you missed it... Game pass doesn't have that issue.

HyperVenom523 · Aug 24, 2018

Short answer no

Long answer never ever again

BowenB23 · Aug 26, 2018

I have never not had Gold so I haven't seen if we lose the games with gold we've "purchased".

AdamKronus · Aug 26, 2018

Some games remain available to you only as long as you maintain an active Live Gold subscription.

Radiant Sword X · Aug 26, 2018

For the Games with Gold, you can own them if you keep subscribing to Gold Membership. If you decided not to use Gold anymore, then you would have to buy the game.

KokletPoodaBish · Nov 2, 2018

You won't be able to own the Xbox One games that are included on the monthly Games with Gold. Their availability depends on the offer time frame (i.e Death Squared - 07/16 up to 08/16)

FlamingHotPizza

As I understand it you have to have a gold subscription in order to keep the game. I might try going offline for a while and see what happens to them though.

ZombieJesterCOE

As others have said, it's really up to the deals made with the devs. Maybe put it up on the Uservoice?

M3tal Daz3

To be able to play the free games with gold you need to have the gold subscription.

If you have suggestions post them here:
https://xboxideas.uservoice.com/

Obsessive Power

That would be between the publishers and Microsoft and game publishers. I don't work for MS or have any inside knowledge, but Microsoft must have to make deals with publishers to release either their Xbox 360 titles or Xbox One titles as part of Games With
Gold.

Publishers must still make money here, even on the Xbox 360 titles we get to keep. We may get 360 games for free, but publisher still gets paid.

The Viral Cyrix

No you will always need a paid gold subscription to access the games on xbox one

So... Will We Ever Actually Own The "Xbox One" Games With Gold Or Will We Always...