On the other hand...now that they aren't raising the price of their subs...they will need to come up with a way to get more revenue/profits. And possibly the easiest way to do that would be to release their games on more platforms.
They went full circle and ended up back where they started. It's an Xbox 360.
Microsoft searching for an opportunity to make more money for GP? Sure. Also, don't forget that we are getting an extra GWG game. Not sure if that will continue past February now. Regardless, MS has shown no signs of not making GP their top priority.
Except financially they might be worse off now that Fortnite/Roblox/Apex players won't need to sub to Gold to play.
We'll see I guess. It just seems pretty clear to me that someone at Microsoft (not Xbox) basically said that they can't keep spending a ton of money without having some way to recoup costs and this was what they came up with. They probably reversed it with the assumption that they either have or will think of some other way to get extra revenue from consumers without spending too much.
That's definitely the thing that stands out for me...
It's more stupid than that. They thought, by getting rid of the 1 year gold subscription a FEW MONTHS AGO, people would forget about it, and increasing the 6 months subs from 50$ to 60$ would not be so bad, and would not be compared to the former 1 year subs (which was still available in some stores).
Possibly, yeah. It still feels like the wrong way to go about it. If they'd actually taken their customers' perspective into consideration before announcing this they would've mothballed this idea at conception. Anyone with an ounce of sense knew how this would go down.
That's assuming that Sony or Nintendo misunderstand the marketplace enough to do it in the first place.
If they doubled the price of game to 120$, absolutely they would get shat on.
The fact the complaints about pricing have been very limited and the games in question have sold well shows that the market accepted the increase.
Honestly it's gross that you're both defending it. It's absolutely on the same scale as yesterday, and has rightly been called out by the majority in this forum for months.
