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Official Update on Xbox Live Gold Pricing from Microsoft
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Why would I do that when Microsoft is solely to blame for this decision.
I mean, I want to be open minded because Gamepass is great, but wtf. You come into new gen with no games ready, then increase the gold price? I mean damn. Trying real hard to increase those Gamepass subs, eh MS?
I just don't understand this strategy.
People were buying into their "pro consumer" shtick. This goes all against that.
Did some suit decide to smoke some crack and greenlight this decision? I can't understand this.
People were buying into their "pro consumer" shtick. This goes all against that.
Did some suit decide to smoke some crack and greenlight this decision? I can't understand this.
Doubling the yearly price? Is this just a threat for people to join Game Pass Ultimate or pay up for a service that's not adding anything else to make up for this increase?
That's an insane price hike. I barely play my Series X as is. Now I'll just subscribe to GPU only on the months that games I was planning to buy come out for it.
$10.99 a month for Gold
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$14.99 for Xbox Game Pass on Xbox/PC, EA Play, Xbox Gold and xCloud.
It's a shitty move to force people to move to Gamepass.
So essentially this makes Amazon, Netflix, Disney, Microsoft, Sony and everyone with a subscription service 'evil'?
what is this?
What losses? MS has had record profits since the start of this pandemic. Covid has been good for their businesses.
Fully expect Sony to see the back lash and be like nahhhh
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Thing is once everyone has been relocated to GP - they are gonna start with the price hikes there as well.
Once actual first party games release that people care about like Halo and Starfield they are.gonna feel better about switching up the price.
Its 15 a month for Gold and Games included. So yes but the goal is to convert people from Gold to GPU
You're not currently on a renewal for Gold, so I assume no.
I agree that this decision is absolutely ridiculous, however it isn't impossible to find deals on subscriptions, though I'm curious how that'll change as time goes on (minus the obvious black friday/Christmas deals).
This is the price to pay for MS buying 20 studios and giving the games out for free on gamepass. Not to mention their games will still be $60 at retailer. Guess they finally noticed that wasn't profitable
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Good question lol, I don't know if Brazil's prices are going to change and if is the case what are the new prices.
I think the idea is to push people towards subscribing to Games Pass Ultimate. I'm not sure it's going to work, since the bulk of the Xbox subscription revenue remains Gold. I would imagine a lot of people will balk at the notion of paying $120/year for online play, and this absolutely will put off new people buying their consoles. Frankly, I do think this is going to backfire on them, hard.
I'd imagine top executives at all the big publishers are mad as hell as well. This makes it harder for people on Xbox to play their games online and thus might have a negative effect on their post-launch revenue. I'd imagine that especially publishers with a big f2p game are mad as hell.
MS forced me to put them in my will so they get all my money when I pass, absolutely despicable company. They also threatened my family and called me names.
This also goes against their strategy of "player choice" and "ecosystem". It just doesn't make sense. If anything, Gold should have been stripped off those terrible Games with Gold and instead be 25% cheaper or something. I think anything beyond a 25% price increase even with better Games with Gold games is pure madness. We're talking about a 100% price hike here.
The thing is if that's the goal then it's essentially trying to make people go from paying $60 a year to $180. Overnight.
if this is the aim then we should stop saying it's "double" and $120, because in essence they're trying to triple the price to $180.
We have no idea about the profitability of the division and its branches, just packed revenues.
"Losses" is maybe not accurate, it could be high costs or whatever, so just to avoid or prevent money bleeding somewhere.
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Wait so you can no longer buy a year subscription and now half a year is $60?! Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesh that's a steep increase if so.
Seems very objective.
MS also brought Broadband Only, Unified ID, Achievements with the OG Xbox.
Blaming MS for Sony and Nintendo charging online is a twist.
The price hike sucks, especially if GamePass is not available.
Gamepass itself is possible the best thing that has happened to console gaming for me and I've owned consoles since before the Atari 2600
After the $70 game stuff there was no chance of that happening.
Fuck although at least with that you get a ton of games. Glad I done the two years of Live to GPU recently. Thanks for the reply.
When you put it this way, yeah that does make sense in a shady way.
I just hope people are smart about it and don't buy into their strategy.
If that's the case, gamepass users need to pay it, not gold users. (I say this as a gamepass subscriber)
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