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[Draugoth]

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[Topher]

The quote i've made didn't show up?

My bad. I didn't see it

 

[PisswasserYellow]

Stevie Wonder could have seen this coming.

 

[Shin-Ra]

Microsoft won't immediately raise Xbox Game Pass price if Activision merger is approved

 

[squidilix]

Thinking of the Xbros who paid $90 for 3 years of GamePass...

Yeah... I'm safe for 5 years, man

 

[Sephimoth]

lol I'm already on the verge of cancelling Ultimate, don't tempt me

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

That's actually smart. That way they won't go back on their word regarding all games releasing on Gamepass. They will simply do more tiers and include COD on the most expensive one, lmao.

That's one way to do it for sure.

 

[NickFire]

Well, on one hand I have assumed that another shoe would be dropping before COD was added to the service Day 1. But I don't know if we should be putting much stock into this claim yet. Predicting a different color console was coming out does not scream credible source with access to inside information IMO.

 

[Punished Miku]

Depending on how it is, its a perfect solution. I dont care about Call of Duty and dont want a price hike.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Let's see how this turns out lol

 

[Fess]

Wait? What? I’m sorry but my mind got stuck in a confusion loop looking at Solid Snake in that tweet

 

[xrnzaaas]

It'll be interesting if they'll move EA games to the (new) top tier as well to cover for their recent price hike.

All in all Game Pass is looking to lose more than gain. People will still play CoD largely on PS and won't start spending money on the top tier of Game Pass.

 

[Deleted member 848825]

I'd have thought 3 tiers is enough. Why not just change pricing on the 3 current ones. And out of those 3, I'd have thought they just change the console and ultimate ones, leaving core as is.

But I'm not MS. All their strategies seem out there these days...

 

[FIREKNIGHT2029]

You will pay for that COD lost revenue somehow.

 

[ChoosableOne]

If I'm going to pay more than $10 a month, why should I get Gamepass just for CoD?The formula to save Gamepass probably doesn't exist. Good luck green boyz.

 

[Shin-Ra]

That's actually smart. That way they won't go back on their word regarding all games releasing on Gamepass. They will simply do more tiers and include COD on the most expensive one, lmao.

That's one way to do it for sure.

“Do you get all first-party games on ‘Game Pass’”

 

[EverydayBeast]

Ps plus did tiers, and it’s not done. So if you want to compete with that game pass is weeks away from gold, premium and plus tiers and the advantages these provide. If you’re just buying game pass for multiplayer you’re in big trouble.

 

[Nobody_Important]

Just admit Gamepass isn't viable in its current form and change it.


I don't understand this deep desire they have to sink the entire fucking ship over a single bad decision.

 

[CrustyBritches]

Don’t care about CoD. Already locked into Ultimate for the next 2yrs so it doesn’t matter.

 

[Nydius]

You will pay for that COD lost revenue somehow.

I don’t see how a new tier will offset the lost revenue. If it’s a tier above Ultimate that costs more, I doubt enough people will subscribe to it. If it’s a slightly increased Ultimate with a lesser tier below it, they’ll end up grandfathering in the people with stacked Ultimate with a newer renewal date based on the new price - but that won’t immediately turn into new revenue.

They’re going to lose millions of sales regardless and, depending on how this tier situation plays out, they might lose subscribers who feel burned.

 

[Astray]

2025-2026 will be fun years to behold because that's when the majority of people who upconverted gold subs into GP Ultimate will likely have to start paying normal prices.

 

[Shin-Ra]

I wonder how far off the ‘Standard with adverts’ tier is. Innovating how to squeeze more ads into the UI.

 

[Nydius]

Ps plus did tiers, and it’s not done.

PS+ has 3 tiers.

Game Pass would be adding a fourth. Just to make good on their previous promise that “all first party games will launch on Game Pass”.

If you can’t see the difference and why it will end up biting Microsoft in the ass, you’re being willfully blind.

 

[rapid32.5]

let's raise the price on the service that doesn't grow- Ms

 

[MrRibeye]

CoD is already chopped up into multiple SKUs with warzone, multiplayer, campaign and zombies.

Warzone has it's own SKU

Campaign has it's own SKU

MP has it's own SKU

If they give you the new CoD for free, they can chop it up into SKUs like they did with Halo Infinite

or even better (listen here Phil) invent an entirely new paid SKU, which I think would be a smarter move than adding a new tier to game pass

 

[Nvzman]

$30 GP a month incoming.

The crazy thing is that if they do this, this renders Game Pass as effectively worthless to me.
I'd rather just buy the fucking game itself and play it and save more money after three months.

 

[JCK75]

I just want a tier I can share with my son.

 

[mdkirby]

Think I might cancel. Barely use it, and not interested in any activision games

 

[dotnotbot]

I'm guessing all of Activision games will be pushed out to separate tier

 

[Punished Miku]

I'm guessing all of Activision games will be pushed out to separate tier

Activision Play Pro, similar to the EA one.

Then they'll probably trickle into Ultimate a year later or more. Which is totally fine with me. I don't play Activision stuff really. If this keeps Ultimate the way it is, totally worth it. We'll see how it is.

 

[Complistic]

I doubt this is legit, but I'm super excited for whenever the ad free tier is announced one day.

 

[ByWatterson]

COD Tier Tactical Booster Pack

 

[RickMasters]

I can’t lie…. If they did a tier that included season passes /All DLC for COD, overwatch, fall out 76, Elder scrolls online, Diablo 4, halo infinite, sea of theives and state of decay, forza…. Throw in world of war craft while you at it…. I’d upgrade.



If your gonna add another tier it has to include all the season passes for all their games that use them. Especially their live service games.

 

[Kerotan]

Phil Spencer:
"Fortunately we have another platform you can play it on. The PS5".

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

I can’t lie…. If they did a tier that included season passes /All DLC for COD, overwatch, fall out 76, Elder scrolls online, Diablo 4, halo infinite, sea of theives and state of decay, forza…. Throw in world of war craft while you at it…. I’d upgrade.



If your gonna add another tier it has to include all the season passes for all their games that use them. Especially their live service games.

I like when people think outside the box when talking about expanding the perks of GP

 

[Robb]

New tiers only mean one thing. Prices are about to go up..

 

[DragonNCM]

Increase the price of the ultimate tier since cod is effectively an online game. People can opt the usual no frills gamepass for the actual good games. Having ANOTHER tier/s is beginning to look like a caste system.

I will not agree here with you. I don't give a shit about COD or any other ABK game so I don't like to pay extra for service that I don't use.
They will need to create another tier because they will see a lot of players quitting subscription for ultimate & going back to core & that is money lost.
They can make another tier & they can charge for it as much as they like & I fucking don't care "BUT DONT" touch fucking ultimate.

 

[Pop]

Just buy games Xbox bros

If GP is $20 or more a month for COD or other first party games, just buy the game.

Not worth to sub at that point

 

[N30RYU]

They gave Xbox fanboys like 3 hours uninhabited gloating, just to rain on the parade.
I'm already being told this is wrong, Xbox doesn't need to raise the price cause PS people buying the game will offset the costs.

Then I'll do my part not buying it... not that I have ever bought a COD game tho

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Well if Shinobi and NateDrake are saying it as well then there might be some truth to this report.

 

[Trogdor1123]

An in pass upgrade option. Wow, such awesomeness. I can’t wait for subscriptions in subscriptions and added dlc. Such greatness

 

[Three]

That's actually smart. That way they won't go back on their word regarding all games releasing on Gamepass. They will simply do more tiers and include COD on the most expensive one, lmao.

That's one way to do it for sure.

If they don't include it on ultimate or regular there is going to be a riot. They're more likely to charge people for "play 5 days early and with this skin" on this super tier. As well as possibly a increased price on the lower tiers if they wanted to be true arseholes.

 

[NickFire]

If they don't include it on ultimate or regular there is going to be a riot. They're more likely to charge people for "play 5 days early and with this skin" on this super tier. As well as possibly a increased price on the lower tiers if they wanted to be true arseholes.

I doubt there would be much backlash that didn't fizzle out in a day or two. They seem to have effectively mastered the art of breaking bad news through leaks and PR in my opinion.

Look at the decision to expand third party beyond existing games. High level MS people talk about games on more platforms. High level Xbox people do PR casting shade on the obvious interpretations of what was said. Then the personalities go all doom and gloom. Then more PR (we will talk soon followed by just 4 games for now). Then great and unexpected sales results. By the time they announce the big games, most people will have been conditioned to say going all 3rd party is smart and competitors are stupid for not doing it.

Sure looks like the cycle is repeating IMO. Big name media claiming COD in coming to GP. Everyone is talking. Same time rumors starting to percolate that price is going up or tiers get added. Everyone is riled up again. But they still have weeks before the big showcase when we can probably expect to start hearing official plans. By that time they will have most customers saying their plans make sense and are best for everyone.

 

[Punished Miku]

If they don't include it on ultimate or regular there is going to be a riot. They're more likely to charge people for "play 5 days early and with this skin" on this super tier. As well as possibly a increased price on the lower tiers if they wanted to be true arseholes.

I couldn't care less about any Activision games except Diablo, and I can buy that once every 10 years. For me, this was always about funding MS. I'd be completely fine with zero Activision games ever coming to GP. I just want Ultimate to stay how it is. The crowd of people into GP playing strange indie games and AA stuff is probably not the same as the CoD audience.

I doubt there would be much backlash that didn't fizzle out in a day or two. They seem to have effectively mastered the art of breaking bad news through leaks and PR in my opinion.

Look at the decision to expand third party beyond existing games. High level MS people talk about games on more platforms. High level Xbox people do PR casting shade on the obvious interpretations of what was said. Then the personalities go all doom and gloom. Then more PR (we will talk soon followed by just 4 games for now). Then great and unexpected sales results. By the time they announce the big games, most people will have been conditioned to say going all 3rd party is smart and competitors are stupid for not doing it.

Sure looks like the cycle is repeating IMO. Big name media claiming COD in coming to GP. Everyone is talking. Same time rumors starting to percolate that price is going up or tiers get added. Everyone is riled up again. But they still have weeks before the big showcase when we can probably expect to start hearing official plans. By that time they will have most customers saying their plans make sense and are best for everyone.

Yep. I think it's just that the Xbox GP audience is not necessarily the Call of Duty audience anyway, so it doesn't really affect much of anything. People just want Ultimate. The Call of Duty people can get the Call of Duty package. Not even really bad news honestly. I'll dabble in an old campaign or two and that's about it if they ever come later.

 

[mitch1971]

More like...

Gamepass is set to introduce new tears.

 

[NickFire]

I couldn't care less about any Activision games except Diablo, and I can buy that once every 10 years. For me, this was always about funding MS. I'd be completely fine with zero Activision games ever coming to GP. I just want Ultimate to stay how it is. The crowd of people into GP playing strange indie games and AA stuff is probably not the same as the CoD audience.

Yep. I think it's just that the Xbox GP audience is not necessarily the Call of Duty audience anyway, so it doesn't really affect much of anything. People just want Ultimate. The Call of Duty people can get the Call of Duty package. Not even really bad news honestly. I'll dabble in an old campaign or two and that's about it if they ever come later.

I don't think we should assume the audiences are the same either. But I can't agree that COD on GP won't affect much right now. It might not, but PC is a wildcard IMO. MS might generate a ton more revenue if they can get more people signed up on PC who came only for COD. They also might lose money if people stop spending 70 to buy because they can rent for 30-40 between launch and when they lose interest until the following year.

I suppose Xbox console would be a wildcard too. But PC seems a bigger risk and potential reward to me.

 

[MatrixReloaded101]

Goodluck to them on that, once my sub is up I am out. So done with these sub services.

 

[Gamer_By_Proxy]

Then I'll do my part not buying it... not that I have ever bought a COD game tho

Besides for getting CoD games on PS+ or at 5 Below, the last one I bought was the first MW2.

 

[ShadowkillXNA]

Update:

Two more sources reitherate on new price and tier changes:

Extas1s previously leaked the White Digital Xbox, He also teases a hike price.





Source

 

[Sanepar]

Game pass is the biggest crap of this industry. The long term plan is simple: pay a full Game per month to rent games. Thx God Ms is struggling if they lead this industry we are fucked.