Microsoft revamps Xbox Game Pass plans and hikes Ultimate to $29.99 a month, Ultimate gets Ubisoft+ Classics and more

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Generic said:
Gamepass became PS+. What a terrible day.

Edit: well at least they are adding Fortnite Crew
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PS Plus essentials is actually way better than Game Pass. Allan Wake 2 is free next month for subscribers of the lowest and cheapest PS Plus essentials tier. If you wait until Black Friday to buy PS Plus annual subscription, it works out to about $5.33 per month. What good is GamePass ultimate if it's priced so high no one can afford it?

There lowest tier is is currently $10 per month with no option to lower the price by an annual subscription. Then add insult to injury, it's just for a rotation of 50 games of RENTING. Unlike PS essentials, those games are not permanently added to your library.
 
The one thing GP had going for it over other subscriptions was that it was simple.

Now I need spreadsheets and lists to know what game is where and when :messenger_tears_of_joy: .

It's almost getting as bad as streaming services now in gaming services, where you have to Google first what streaming platform has a movie before you go and watch it.
 
I hope all the studios who wanted Gamepass dead because they didn't make as much money as they wanted don't regret it when they inevitably have to face the brutality of the free market.

Seems like there's way more failure out there than successes these days.
 
I see they waited just that extra day:
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The price of gamepass going up is likely to be in September. Right now they're riding a 15-25% price hike compared to last year and showing an 8% increase YoY, hiding a possible decline. That will end when they hit the previous price hike quarter so they will likely time it with that to show a positive YoY increase again.
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Glad to be here for the final death rattle of this cancerous service.

This isn't Netflix and games aren't the same in terms of value or art as Real Housewives of New Fucking Jersey.

Value isnt subjective, when you pay real money for full and permanent access to a game it just has more meaning to it. And for every silksong on GP there's a thousand Redfalls. Fuck this thing, let it die and bury it deep.
 
GloveSlap said:
At $30 it could still be worth it if you play a lot of games, but i don't so it's not. I did the $1 trick for 6 years though so it was cool while it lasted.
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I would have killed to experience Game Pass at $30 when I was younger. Nowadays, I have to force myself to finish games—but I can see a lot of younger people finding real value in the Game Pass library with all the free time and lack of responsibilities.
 
It's amazing how the Series S was meant to be a budget gaming revolution. It began as the cheapest way to play next gen games with a fairly cheap subscription service to complement it.

Now it's almost as expensive as a digital PS5 and gamepass ultimate is more expensive any other sub service I think.

What's the point of the a Series S now? It's no longer a cheap entry point to console gaming.
 
That Activision deal really killed Xbox, didn't it?

They could have been hemorrhaging money for another decade but the deal shined a giant spotlight on the financial disaster that has been Xbox and the investors didn't like that. This combined with the fact that investors are morons and have the worst ideas pretty much killed Xbox and will eventually kill Microsoft gaming altogether
 
Zuzu said:
It's amazing how the Series S was meant to be a budget gaming revolution. It began as the cheapest way to play next gen games with a fairly cheap subscription service to complement it.

Now it's almost as expensive as a digital PS5 and gamepass ultimate is more expensive any other sub service I think.

What's the point of the a Series S now? It's no longer a cheap entry point to console gaming.
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A no disc drive Series X is what they should have went for.
 
I mean, if Microsoft thinks it can leverage its astronomical investment in AI to literally generate AAA on demand, why even deal with publishers? Why even deal with people and their bullshit?

Just intentionally run down Gamepass and Xbox, and create an entirely new era of gaming. Sell completely customisable games straight from their data centre to the consumer, no publishers, no devs, no hardware, no marketers.

These could be early moves of seriously big disruptive changes.

Game Over.
 
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rapid32.5 said:
I would have killed to experience Game Pass at $30 when I was younger. Nowadays, I have to force myself to finish games—but I can see a lot of younger people finding real value in the Game Pass library with all the free time and lack of responsibilities.
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What kids are getting $30 a month in allowances?

I'd be lucky if I got 2 games a year (Christmas and birthday), and even when I got them they were often from the Playstation platinum collection.

No wonder the younger generations are becoming increasingly whiny and entitled.
 
No thanks, done with the constant price increases. I will just start buying everything on pc 1 year after games release at a steep discount and all patches are completed.

GTA 6 is the only game I am willing to pay full price for day one. Got a big enough backlog to hold me over.

Got zero interest in constantly supporting these greedy companies especially MS.
 
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ZehDon said:
I use Ultimate, so quick maths shows AUD$276.00 up to AUD$432.00 a year. That is a pough pill to swallow in this economy when all we're getting is Ubisoft games that no one is buying. At AUD$23.00 a month, it's easy to justify for the rotating titles on offer. At AUD$36.00 a month, I could buy a game on sale. I'll breakdown what I used Game Pass for for this past year, add up the cost of what they were to buy on sale, and see if it's more than $432.00. I got a gut feeling it isn't - which means Microsoft loses a five year subscriber.

I've said it once, and I'll say it again: they're gonna crash this fucking industry out of nothing more than sheer unadulterated greed.
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The industry is not crashing, stop this SonyToo shit.
 
ZehDon said:
I use Ultimate, so quick maths shows AUD$276.00 up to AUD$432.00 a year. That is a pough pill to swallow in this economy when all we're getting is Ubisoft games that no one is buying. At AUD$23.00 a month, it's easy to justify for the rotating titles on offer. At AUD$36.00 a month, I could buy a game on sale. I'll breakdown what I used Game Pass for for this past year, add up the cost of what they were to buy on sale, and see if it's more than $432.00. I got a gut feeling it isn't - which means Microsoft loses a five year subscriber.

I've said it once, and I'll say it again: they're gonna crash this fucking industry out of nothing more than sheer unadulterated greed.
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MS spent the last 5 years trying to actively sabotage the entire industry so they can supplant it with a new business model that would only benefit them.

We don't need an all-you-can-eat buffet of games. We need less games overall and a higher bar to entry across the board. More platform curation and a broader price structure that goes from $5 to well over $100 (monsters like GTA6 could push to this if they wanted).

More upfront choice does not and has never = more quality. Redmond is a cancer on this industry and a hobby I've enjoyed since I was a kid. I'd be happy to see them gone entirely if it would serve as a lesson that behemoths cannot win by sheer force.
 
I've been on PC from only a year and I forgot consoles charged for online multiplayer. Even $10 a month which ISNT bad feels a bit too much because it should be free. Actually, I think that's the only way Xbox can make a comeback.
 
T-Reks said:
Everyone out here talking markets, clouds, consoles and ultimate subscriptions and all I want at the end of the day is a Halo game that isn't trash
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Would you pay a sub for an AI that can deliver you that game on demand in real time? All you need is internet and a controller.

It'll be the best Halo you've ever played, you can share it with friends too, plus unlimited sequels.
 
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You know what, I'm done with Game Pass on PC.

It's always a crappy version missing features and patches coming later in the cycle.

Steam it is and that is if I buy the games.
 
I have to admit it's ironic that we have two game pass threads one where everyone is saying that there is no way that game pass is profitable and that MS are therefore subsidizing subscribers and another where everyone is complaining about MS ripping off subscribers.
 
Should these prices already be updated in your subscription menu?
It still says that on October 5, I will be charged the old "Game Pass for Console" price, so I don't know if this discontinued subscription of mine is still safe.
 
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