It sounds like Game Pass pricing will drop soon
Archived version: https://archive.is/20260413185038/https://www.theverge.com/tech/911182/microsoft-xbox-game-pass-too-expensive-leaked-memo
Keep in mind when she says that, that Microsoft is probably not looking to lower the price of GamePass, but to find other things to include in that price. I sincerely doubt they’re going to lower the price and just leave the cash on the table - they’re going to add something to the subscription to keep the people already paying $30/mo from dropping. To make it feel more worth their while.
Has there ever been a major subscription service that decreased in price for an equal service?
From just the headline, I would have thought it was too expensive for Microsoft, and the price would be raised. Someone seems to have a head that isn’t firmly lodged in their asshole over there, tho.
$30 a month. I stopped paying that. That’s like 4 games a year in subscription fees. I’d rather just buy 4 games. I don’t need endless games for that price.
Are there even 4 90$ games worth purchasing in any given year?
Most of my library is in the <30$ range
Good point. I just bought Fallout 3, New Vegas, and FO4 for under $16 total.
Even with the $60 price tag for each these three are half of what they are asking for a year.
I dumped it when it went from $5 to $10 a month for PC gamepass.
$120 a year gets me A LOT of games on Steam sales.
I know I’m not the target audience, but it was pretty nice playing tons of games for $5 a month.
At $30 I don’t think I could even justify that. It’s absurd. Even as a one off to play everything I could…I’d rather use that $30 for literally anything else.
Yeah, and the games keep getting worse and worse. It’s like phone app quality games called “King’s Realm 3” or some shit that no one asked for.
That’s insane. It really shows how little they think of the customers that are naive enough to pay it, especially seeing as it’s clearly not necessary to charge that much.
The solution, obviously, is AI.
Somehow it’s always AI. Just like it was blockchain before that. And “the cloud” before that.
You say “the cloud” like that isn’t the exact business model of gamepass. Instead of buying it once for a slightly higher up front cost, they’ve convinced people to just rent it and have been raising prices ever since.
Maybe not so much that one admittedly.
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