Microsoft has been sparing no effort in the promotion of "watermelon peel" XGP. Now Xbox has officially released a "thanks to play" campaign that can be used for three months of PC Game Pass (PGP) trial version, players can claim from 9 pm on March 14 to 10:59 pm on April 12. However, the official conditions for this event can be said to be quite harsh.
According to Xbox, in order to claim the PGP trial qualification of "Thanks for Play", players need to have a Microsoft account (excluding cloud games) that has played halo unlimited, Forza Horizon 5, and Age of Empires 4 games on the PC platform before March 1, 2022, and also needs to be a "newcomer account" who has never subscribed to XGPU or PGP. Since these three games are all works after Microsoft launched the PGP service, in fact, many players have played through PGP on the PC platform, and the only official "loophole" that can be exploited is the free "Halo Unlimited" multiplayer mode. Of course, there is no shortage of Microsoft will have a more tolerant default standard, just like intermittent XGP players can also get on the bus for 10 Hong Kong dollars. However, it seems that this "thanks to play" is more like a player who is digging steam to join XGP.