This is truly an insane move. FIFTY PERCENT price hike.

Also gone today (Oct 1, 2025) is the ability to redeem Game Pass on Microsoft Rewards. Now you have to redeem a Microsoft or XBox gift card and purchase your Game Pass subscription for the current pricing

This is like everything. It didn't go from $20 to a reasonable $21. Nope, had to jump friggin 50%. But inflation is 2.9%.

That may be the official inflation rate, but it's not mine.

Sorry. Rant over.

This was always the plan. A low price for unlimited games to choke out smaller studios and competitors and once they control more of the market, raise prices.

I'm done. This will be my last month of GamePass. The value just isn't there for me anymore. I don't play enough games to justify the new price. The few games I do play I'm going to pick up used on ebay and just go that route. I'll stick with my PC and my Xbox will slowly wither into a media center because Microsoft wants to squeeze blood from a stone with their customers.

Spent a trillion dollars buying Activision Blizzard, laid off a ton of employees and killed studios, two price hikes on the console that is 3 or 4 years old, and now a GamePass price hike.

No. I'm done. Fuck that. There's nothing I can do about everything else getting more expensive like groceries and gas. But this? I can absolutely do something about this.

Edit: Oh, I forgot about them killing the rewards program too. Just murdering any type of value prospect for those of us who don't want to spend every dime we have on entertainment. Yeah, fuck off with this money grubbing bullshit. Simultaneously making record profits but screwing over employees, studios, and customers all at the same time. No wonder they're giving up on hardware. We haven't had a decent first-party game this entire console cycle.

just get rid of the damn consoles while you're at it.

Never did subscribe, looking like the best idea all the time. :)

Seriously though, it's like they are trying to go out of business.

Damn. I've still got about a year left from the last time I pre-loaded with voucher codes but this'll probably mark the end of Gamepass for me. If they'd actually increased the value as well as the price instead of shuttering multiple studios and cancelling their games then maybe it'd be worth it but...

I downgraded to gamepass PC for now. I would have cancelled entirely, but my kids also use it, so we do get some value out of it. My kids only use it on PC anyway, but I'll miss the cloud streaming. Eventually I'll drop it altogether and most likely this generation will be my last console of any kind.

Have you ever witnessed a subscription getting cheaper over time? Such a trap.

I’ve been rocking GP Ultimate forever, and have always talked it up to people as one of the best deals in gaming. That’s been getting harder recently, especially at the $20 price point, and a 50% bump just killed it for me. Canceled my subscription; hopefully MS learns something from this (they won’t)

Oh joy.

I promise an executive at microsoft is getting a massive bonus this year once they see the earnings increase for this segment that far surpasses the earnings of their xbox hardware was generated.

It's still a decent deal. A buck a day to play unlimited games is hardly unaffordable in the US or Europe, and even most of latin america.

They won't stop with this increase though. Look at the price of cable TV bundles and how so many eagerly signed up for $200-300+/mo. I work with older people who still pay this.

Damn people can afford to play games these days?

Unsubscribed. Piss off microsoft, I'm not made of money. You are. Get lost with your money grab.

I haven't had Game Pass in a couple of years; what happened to $5.99/mo? Even at that price it was a ripoff...