We all knew it was coming. Game pass gets a price increase and a new more expensive tier for day 1 games.
I honestly can’t imagine paying $20/month for it. PC game pass will still get day 1 games at $12/month (was $10 before this) but it’s still not great value, and the trend of where this is going is so obvious that I wouldn’t want to bother using it anyways.
It is absolutely beyond me how there is a single soul that didn’t know where this was going the very day Gamepass was announced lol
I got a ton of hate online when they announced the Activision deal and I said that though they’d get COD for “free” but they would almost immediately start hiking the price a lot. This has been obvious but some people refuse to think MS wasn’t going to try and recoup their $70B?
I think people just expected them to wait until it had a larger subscriber base to make these changes. This seems like it will really kill growth.
Larger?! Doesn’t it already have like 30 million subscribers already? That seems pretty solid to me ha
Does that include xbox gamepass core customers? Because that’s basically an entirely different service, and it’s also something you’d expect a very high adoption rate of among Xbox console owners, given the platform’s historical emphasis on multiplayer games. There’s also rather a lot of people who stacked many months of gamepass for quite cheap.
While the platform has certainly seen some success, it’s hardly in a dominant position, so making moves that make the value proposition of the service look worse is surprising.
Enshitification continues
Eh, this is a case of them offering a better deal than actually ever made sense, because they expected the volume of subscribers to make up for it, but that never manifested.
Loss leader to buy market share. It was never going to be profitable at those rates.
Xbox takes a 30% cut from devs, has ads on its console and wants to charge a subscription for online gaming (now raising its price by 25%). Can’t triple dip like this, Microsoft.
Haven’t renewed PS Plus either since its price hike. Just gonna play disc games on my PS5 till the end of its lifespan.
There aren’t even enough good games coming out anymore to justify paying for a subscription lol.
But think about all the blockbusters you’ll miss out on - like Starfield, Halo MCC, Gears5 and the fan favorite Redfall!
Also don’t forget the value-added extra like EA play where you can play such gems as Mass Effect Andromeda, Anthem, Base version of Sims4 (DLC extra) and less! (EA Sports FC not included)
I got a Steam Deck at the right time. I’m over paying for subs. I’ll just play more single player stuff.
