Play Fortnight for free and without the Xbox Game Pass subscription

For the first time, Microsoft is offering Xbox GamePass for free without a subscription on its cloud gaming service.

The message is important in more ways than one. Until now, to use Microsoft’s Cloud Gaming, you had to subscribe to the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate. With this subscription, you have exclusive access to a list of games that you usually pay to download or stream games. The company has a major announcement today against these two rules: Fortnight The Xbox Game Pass comes free, no subscription required.

Fortnight is back (again) on iOS

For Epic Games, this is a new way to bring the game back Fortnight On the iPhone without going through the Apple App Store. The publisher has already been offering a solution with GeForce Now since the beginning of this year, but this time the connection with the Xbox should be even more focused.

Fortnight So available Right now Free in 26 countries, including France, on smartphones and tablets running Android, iOS, iPad OS or Windows PCs.

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Microsoft claims that the game can be played directly with the joystick on the touch screen. So there should be very little difference in experience Fortnight On mobile, if the delay due to streaming is set aside.

Xbox Cloud Gaming opens for free

Above all, Microsoft makes it clear that a subscription is not required. All you need to access the game is internet access and a Microsoft account Fortnight. A way to allow everyone to test the Xbox Cloud Gaming service without paying 1 euro. This is not the first free cloud gaming service. Both Nvidia and Google offer the free version of GeForce Now and Stadia with some restrictions.

Until now, Microsoft’s cloud gaming offer has been firmly tied to its Xbox GamePass subscription, sometimes even confused by the company. With its first opening a Free to play Microsoft Xbox, which is not on the service list, is starting to give an independent life to cloud gaming.

Note that in 2019, Microsoft promised to extend its service to games purchased on the Xbox Store. In other words, with Cloud Gaming you can find a library of games purchased on the Xbox on all devices, without having to wait to integrate the game into the Xbox Game Pass table. The company has not mentioned this option again since 2019.

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