Life is Strange have released episodes every 6,5 weeks and Tales from the Borderlands every 10 weeks. I suspect everyone involved know only too well when the releases happen so they don’t see being told about new content as a problem the same way players do. The promotional websites for two of the coolest episodic games right now-Life is Strange from Square Enix and Tales from the Borderlands by Telltale Games-haven’t created emailing lists were interested players can join up to be notified of new episodes either. As episodes are considered add-on content and not an update to the game itself, the console will not automatically download and apply episodes as updates. There are three tiles on the Home screen reserved for “Featured” content, but these usually turns out to be advertisements for new games and sometimes you even see great offers on games you already own and have installed.
If you’ve bought a Season Pass for all episodes of a game, you kind of expect new episodes to be put front and center on the Xbox Home screen as they become available. Out of these rarely visited places, only Manage game puts new downloads front and center. The only places you can find new episodes are in the Store, Game hub, or in the Manage game screen.
The Xbox One has a system-wide notification center that are used by the system for game achievements, DVR functions, social and messaging, and other trivial things that are collected in a central place never to be looked at again. Episodic games are given the same silent treatment as any other downloadable content ( DLC). There’s no system in place on the console for letting players know there are new episodes available for episodic games they own or subscribe to. However, the Xbox is keeping very quiet about new episodes and don’t show any initiative to download nor put them in front of players. Buying Season Passes unfortunately doesn’t mean your console will regularly deliver new episodes to games you own as they’re released.Īfter purchasing a Season Pass for an episodic game like Life is Strange and Tales from the Borderlands on Xbox One, you might have expected to get new episodes delivered onto your console as they’re released.
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