Please don't give these people your money. They are doing nothing to deserve it.
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LOL, people unsubscribing is working. I'm shocked it took them this long to react to this, though. The pricing is ridiculous. They would have to slash it in half or more to gain back the number of people lost. Additionally, they keep adding and removing the same games? The value proposition seems low if you have already played the existing catalog.
It seems funny to me that they put all their eggs in one basket (gamepass) and then decided to light the basket on fire and smash it with a hammer(increase the price and put the head of AI in charge of the xbox. Have radio silence on what's next for xbox for an entire generation of your console while it's rumored that your next console is your last).
Even if it was dirt cheap, I don't want to give microsoft my money. I don't want to rent games or get stuck with a subscription.
$30 a month. I stopped paying that. That's like 4 games a year in subscription fees. I'd rather just buy 4 games. I don't need endless games for that price.
Are there even 4 90$ games worth purchasing in any given year?
Most of my library is in the <30$ range
I dumped it when it went from $5 to $10 a month for PC gamepass.
$120 a year gets me A LOT of games on Steam sales.
I know I'm not the target audience, but it was pretty nice playing tons of games for $5 a month.
At $30 I don't think I could even justify that. It's absurd. Even as a one off to play everything I could...I'd rather use that $30 for literally anything else.
That's insane. It really shows how little they think of the customers that are naive enough to pay it, especially seeing as it's clearly not necessary to charge that much.
Somehow it's always AI. Just like it was blockchain before that. And "the cloud" before that.
You say "the cloud" like that isn't the exact business model of gamepass. Instead of buying it once for a slightly higher up front cost, they've convinced people to just rent it and have been raising prices ever since.
Keep in mind when she says that, that Microsoft is probably not looking to lower the price of GamePass, but to find other things to include in that price. I sincerely doubt they're going to lower the price and just leave the cash on the table - they're going to add something to the subscription to keep the people already paying $30/mo from dropping. To make it feel more worth their while.
From just the headline, I would have thought it was too expensive for Microsoft, and the price would be raised. Someone seems to have a head that isn't firmly lodged in their asshole over there, tho.
Has there ever been a major subscription service that decreased in price for an equal service?
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