While some of those criticisms were bizarrely personal and conveniently ignored the fact that many video game companies are struggling with release schedules these days, the point remains mostly valid. Following the delays of Starfield and Redfall, some were quick to criticize Xbox and its management team for failing to keep some of their biggest upcoming games on track. There’s a degree to which that lack of major new release games is an extension of another recent controversy: Xbox’s dwindling 2022 new release schedule.

While few are saying that the games being added to the service are outright bad (many recent additions like Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy, Trek to Yomi, Tunic, Lost in Random, Vampire Survivors, and Her Story have received widespread critical acclaim), some are concerned that recent Game Pass library updates have been lacking the kind of major Triple-A games that have highlighted previous Xbox Game Pass updates. This particular controversy has been slowly boiling over the last few months as some Game Pass subscribers and industry observers have been criticizing the quality of the subscription service’s recent updates. While that’s hardly an indicator that the service is in any short or long-term danger, the nature of these recent Game Pass criticisms does suggest that video game subscription services may be more dependent on Triple-A games than some would like to think they are.

In fact, it seems like more and more people have taken to social media and other outlets to share their frustrations with Game Pass and their plans to at least temporarily cancel their subscriptions to the service. If you’ve felt like the recent additions to Xbox Game Pass have been lacking, you’re not alone.

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