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  • free Free FREE Wasteland Remastered!!! Enter the Waste!

    From rms@3:633/10 to All on Thursday, April 16, 2026 07:26:17
    full game free, doesn't seem to require a subscription: https://www.xbox.com/games/store/wasteland-remastered/9ngh1fk0rjgl

    rms

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  • From Dimensional Traveler@3:633/10 to All on Thursday, April 16, 2026 06:43:52
    On 4/16/2026 6:26 AM, rms wrote:
    full game free, doesn't seem to require a subscription: https://www.xbox.com/games/store/wasteland-remastered/9ngh1fk0rjgl

    Have to have a subscription and apparently it runs on their servers, not installed on your own machine.

    --
    I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
    dirty old man.

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  • From rms@3:633/10 to All on Thursday, April 16, 2026 07:50:37
    Have to have a subscription and apparently it runs on their servers, not

    You do need the xbox app installed, but it's not clear to me you need a subscription...

    rms


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  • From rms@3:633/10 to All on Thursday, April 16, 2026 07:54:52
    No subscription required, a friend checked as well.

    rms

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  • From Spalls Hurgenson@3:633/10 to All on Thursday, April 16, 2026 12:13:10
    On Thu, 16 Apr 2026 06:43:52 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
    <dtravel@sonic.net> said this thing:

    On 4/16/2026 6:26 AM, rms wrote:
    full game free, doesn't seem to require a subscription:
    https://www.xbox.com/games/store/wasteland-remastered/9ngh1fk0rjgl

    Have to have a subscription and apparently it runs on their servers, not >installed on your own machine.

    Aside from everything else (needing the XBox app and an account with
    XBox.com), I just don't like how this 'remastered' version looks. The
    original 1989 game definitely isn't a looker, but I still think it
    looks better than this 2020 remake. The visuals in this game look
    charmless, like a bad mobile port. Meanwhile, its gameplay still has
    almost all the jankiness of its 3-decade old progenitor.

    Still, it was mostly the need to create a microsoft account that kept
    me from getting this one. Even the insistence of the holy Number can't
    overcome that travail.



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