Xbox Game Pass is finally getting its long-awaited price increase.

We all knew it was coming. Game pass gets a price increase and a new more expensive tier for day 1 games.

I honestly can’t imagine paying $20/month for it. PC game pass will still get day 1 games at $12/month (was $10 before this) but it’s still not great value, and the trend of where this is going is so obvious that I wouldn’t want to bother using it anyways.

  • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
    59·
    4 months ago

    It is absolutely beyond me how there is a single soul that didn’t know where this was going the very day Gamepass was announced lol

    • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      4 months ago

      I’m still glad I paid for it when it was a good deal. It’s not like I was committed. The unsubscribe button is pretty easy, and I don’t need to play a lot of those singleplayer games anymore.

    • Janovich@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      I got a ton of hate online when they announced the Activision deal and I said that though they’d get COD for “free” but they would almost immediately start hiking the price a lot. This has been obvious but some people refuse to think MS wasn’t going to try and recoup their $70B?

    • johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      4 months ago

      I think people just expected them to wait until it had a larger subscriber base to make these changes. This seems like it will really kill growth.

      • Zaemz@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        Larger?! Doesn’t it already have like 30 million subscribers already? That seems pretty solid to me ha

        • johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          4 months ago

          Does that include xbox gamepass core customers? Because that’s basically an entirely different service, and it’s also something you’d expect a very high adoption rate of among Xbox console owners, given the platform’s historical emphasis on multiplayer games. There’s also rather a lot of people who stacked many months of gamepass for quite cheap.

          While the platform has certainly seen some success, it’s hardly in a dominant position, so making moves that make the value proposition of the service look worse is surprising.