Xbox Just Made Gamepass Worse

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I upgraded my Game Pass subscription to cancelled. I'm tired of being the frog in the slowly heating pot.

Remember when we were all outraged that XBox Live had a yearly fee at all? Because PC games were already online for free? Hey remember how Sony had that as a big selling point, that their PSN was completely free on PS3 while 360 kept charging? Remember how upset people got when the PS4 had Sony decide to copy Microsoft because hey the 360 was selling pretty well with that fee in place. Yeah, and you know how, in point of fact, online play on the PS3 is STILL free to this day? And also, outside of MMOs, PC games ALSO don't require a yearly fee to work online? It's almost as if the costs of hosting online services DON'T require that yearly fee and it was always just a way to scrape a little more off the top. Keep that in mind now that they're increasing the cost of basic online play along with their Gamepass service that many subscribers don't want to pay for just to play the games they bought outright online.

The days of free PS3 online is a distant memory now sighs

There's no such thing as a free lunch. With game pass, you own nothing and you pay indefinitely.

Solution: play PC, wishlist games, and buy them on sale. Most games are buggy af on launch nowadays anyway

Don't worry in a few years you will have to pay double again

Wow xboi fanbox's sure got screwed this generation if they went all in..

I canceled it 3 months after it started on PC because I wasn't into buying DLC for games I don't own. It was clearly an abusive service designed to hurt customers.

Maybe...if they did not close successful studio, they will have more games to draw in more players.

Cancelled my Ultimate subscription. Honestly I barely used my xbox anyway at this point as I play everything on my PC now.

Word is 90% of Game Pass subscribers are on Ultimate. So, they will be paying an 18% increase. The people that are on Game Pass Console are not having an increase and can stay grandfathered in. Who is paying double?

Isn't the standard "beyond all reasonable doubt" only applied in criminal court cases? I think that's what guy from Legal Eagles said. In administrative cases the burden of proof requires the jury to consider it to be "more likely than not" or something along those lines. *Not a legal advice

Makes sense that Xbox goes full subscription nightmare and will constantly raise the price. Like you mentioned, the playerbase there is already conditioned to not buy games anymore. In the end, it will end like it has with TV streaming. Constant squeeze of the customers for the almighty shareholders. The line must go up!

Aaaannd the other shoe drops. Consolidation of corps is a helluva dangerous drug fellas. Not even once.

I’m staying, because of all the money I save not buying all these games I want to play separately. Also staying for the discounts I get on those games I want to own. If you find yourself only playing 1-3 New release AAA games all year, it’s not worth it. As soon as you say you play 4 or more new AAA games a year, it instantly becomes worth it.

You should keep the volume of the video at the same rate as it was when you started the ad.

as some one who collects video games, subscribing to this kind of service feels pointless to me

i support the price model of, if buying isnt owning, pirating isnt stealing

I canceled my Game Pass Ultimate shortly before these price hikes due to Microsofts recent corpo bullshit. I feel so vindicated after the price hike since that would have caused me to cancel anyways