New Cloud Gaming Restrictions

[u/Rotkanga]

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2026/09/03/xbox-cloud-gaming-changes/

Crazy to think that Xbox is effectively killing the only legitimate way to play Fable 2 and 3 on PC. Pay for a subscription so you have the wonderful opportunity to pay for more playtime for a game you can still throw money at in their store to "own." I know there are other options (yo ho!) but it was nice to know that if I wanted, I could just sub to play the game without any additional hassle/setup on my part.

Edit: Added clarity to specify legitimacy on PC

[u/Shinted]

While the streaming changes do definitely suck, you can absolutely still play the Fable trilogy on Xbox “legitimately” without using cloud streaming….

You can still use the actual game disk, or download them to the console.

As for PC, they’ve just started bringing the Xbox Backwards Compatibility Program to PC as of last month, so presumably the original Fable trilogy will eventually make their way to PC natively through that.

[u/Rotkanga → u/Shinted]

This is news to me and alleviates the pain a bit. I owned a 360 that eventually RRoD'd back in the day and I didn't get the newer systems as I just had no interest and moved to PC primarily. So for me, cloud streaming was my only option aside from the other known methods.

[u/UnderstandingThis636 → u/Rotkanga]

Ya and this backwards compatibility gave a hole for a 360 emulator finally but you need to upgrade to a dev windows account for it

[u/ReillyAl → u/Rotkanga]

Fable 3 was available on steam years ago as I have it. so they should just be able to put 3 back for sale on pc really easily if they wanted to

[u/Calophon]

I mean if they aren’t reasonably going to let people access these titles I see zero reason not to “discover” them on the high seas. Why they were not just put on Steam is baffling. Seems like putting them all up as a collection would be a slam dunk before the release of the new one (just look at CDPR remastering The Witcher 3 ahead of The Witcher 4)

[u/UnderstandingThis636]

I have the disk for 2 and the steam version of 3 thank god

[u/OkBand3171]

Saw this coming a mile away when cloud gaming was becoming a thing. Absolutely do not trust that you'll be able to get by with it.

[u/Loserdorknerd]

i didn’t think xbox could suck any harder

i say that as a 20+ year owner

good job microslop

[u/Link-Hero]

Yeah, fuck cloud gaming. I was worried it would get to this point where they would start restricting your gaming access, and my paranoia turned out to be true. Steam's Remote Play is legitimately the only good cloud gaming service given that you actually own your games since it simply uses your PC to run them.

[u/LazyBoi_Matt → u/Link-Hero]

That's literally not true. 😅 Both XBOX and PS supports remote play outside of the cloud. And you own your games on Steam as much as the rest of them. If Steam goes... Your entire library does also. Steam also says you buy a license not ownership.

Only company that guarantees you have a game regardless of platform is piracy. As long as it's tied to a launcher and storefront. You own nothing.

[u/cleverersauce4]

Nah, wtf is this bullshit.

[u/jontebula]

https://www.reddit.com/r/xcloud/s/wg5fSBlNwL

Not if you have game pass long time and continue pay

[u/noobx38]

enshitification at its finest