Wow I actually expected an increase.

Good for them.

Hello, we fucked up, please resubscribe, we promise we won't try to fuck with you again (for at least a few months).

It's a massive drop (7 Dollars less) for Ultimate subscribers for sure, but this is still not cheap in my books. PC subscribers have less of a drop (2.5 Dollars), but it wasn't that expensive compared to Ultimate to begin with. And Call of Duty games won't be added to Ultimate and PC for an entire year. That's a lot.

Too late. They lost me. I had an uninterrupted Live sub since it was in beta. Had game pass for years. But the price surge was enough to get me to drop it.

I can't help but wonder if this was a correction, or intentional sleight of hand.

If the last change never happened, and they just said the price goes up by $3 and COD is no longer included, would anyone be happy about that?

Same situation, but now we're seeing it as a $7 price drop with no COD.

I might switch back to ultimate again, but not until there's something in premium Gamepass that Im really interested in.

Can they release an Xbox live subscription with no games? $120 a year for online is ridiculous

Bailing water out of the Titanic.

How much was it before it was $29.99 a month? 🤔

Looks like it was $19.99 a month until they raised it to $29.99 6 months ago.

Still an extra $3 a month though!

Still too expensive. I am glad to see some companies facing pains for their relentless price gouging.

Too little too late.

I couldn’t care less about this. I made the complete switch to Linux a few days ago. Microslop butchered the Xbox brand so bad that I don’t even want to play their games nor pay for their shitty pass anymore

I was hoping they leave it at 30$ so that more people see the model for unsustainable bullshit that it is and it finally dies. They bought it a lifeline, but in the end it's still bad for the end user, bad for devs, and seeing as how they also pulled CoD it was even bad for microsoft.

The price increase got me to drop it, I've since realized I don't miss it. Good business choices there M$FT!

What a joke. Guess they truly were losing way too many customers out of sheer greed.

The only interpretation I can take from this is that the business model is unsustainable, and anyone who sticks with it is just setting themselves up for disappointment down the road.

They're in the stage now where they realized that $30/mo was pricing more people out than they were gaining in profit, so they presumably did their math and settled on their new ceiling price (which is still more expensive than it was this time last year). Only now they're going to try and make up that cost by reducing the quality of the service, starting with removing Call of Duty.

It's not going to stop at just removing Call of Duty. They still have a $7/user/mo deficit to make up for, and I doubt they're going to make that back in new/returning subscribers. Wouldn't surprise me if they decide Elder Scrolls 6 won't be coming to Game Pass at launch either.

Too little, too late. I don't miss it enough to care.

Still too much. I'm happier picking up older games from CEX for a tiny fraction of the cost.

Too little too late, Microsoft. You permanently soured me on Gamepass when you hiked it from $20 to $30 in one go.

A lot of damage has already been done. I think they will have to keep this price point for years and add a lot of value to it to rebuild trust.

I'm voting with my wallet. No more PS Plus, no more Gamepass. I'll play my back catalog and pick up games on sale.