Game Pass is a fantastic service that offers you a lot of games on console and PC for a surprisingly small amount of money. But no matter how much you like Game Pass, listen to Xbox executive Aaron Greenberg ask you not to name your next child “Game Pass”. Please.
Gamescom 2021 wrapped yesterday. During the three-day event, several live plays and videos were released with developers and publishers talking about upcoming games and partnerships. You know, video game convention shit.
During one of these currents, Bethesda’s Pete Hines and Xbox’s Aaron Greenberg chatted about some past stories, including a Hines he shared about a woman who left during the Skyrim revelation at Quakecon 2011. She stayed to see the full revelation and then went to have her baby. One of the people who interviewed Hines joked that the couple could have named their son A Dovahk after the main character of Skyrim. This did not happen, but Hines pointed out that someone did and Bethesda gave them free games for life.
That’s when (at 8:45 p.m.) Xbox Greenberg responded with a plea to anyone who saw who might be waiting soon.
“I also ask that no one name their Game Pass,” Greenberg said.
Everyone laughed and moved on to a story about Greenberg officiating one War gears wedding. (Video game conventions and their live broadcasts are weird this year.) But now, I have to imagine that at least one person is thinking to themselves, “Oh … would it work? Could I get it? Xbox Game Pass for free, for the rest of my life, if I called my son Game Pass ..? ”
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Based on Greenberg’s answer here, I don’t think it would work. However, if it worked, I guess I would only do it for the first person to try it. So there is your challenge. But the Game Pass for Life is free which is worth it for your child to live this terrible name? I will leave it to you to decide.
(h / t: Gamespot)