Series S/X Xbox Game Pass woes & the dreaded 50% price increase

[TheSoulWalker TheSoulWalker]

I wasn't expecting to be talking about Xbox again so soon but here we are.

So! I just wanted to toss my hat in here and here's what I'm actually seeing.

Old Game Pass core is straight up gone, honestly good riddance that always felt like a big rip-off to make users only look at Premium and Ultimate. It did the absolute bare minimum for a subscription service.

Game Pass essential is the old $10 Game Pass Premium of the ~50 games offering and cloud streaming. Premium didn't offer streaming originally, used to be only Ultimate.

New Game Pass Premium is old Gamepass Ultimate minus EA Play. Technically at this point Old Ultimate Dropped back down to $15 a month

New Game Pass Ultimate is trying to justify the price by offering these things: EA Play, Ubisoft+ Classics, Fortnite Crew Pass (Fortnite's 4 battlepasses, yes, 4.) Double the total game pass titles and Day 1 Xbox release titles.

Now as I see it personally, I've been in the ecosystem long enough that I can comfortably say that I can downgrade to Essential without losing much of anything. I had Ultimate for both the Gamepass library and EA Play. I took it as a try before you buy mentality, anyone that used to subscribe to Playstation Underground or OXG remembers getting the demo disks with their Magazine, same vibe just minus the Magazine because the instant info hub that is the internet and all.

Now the more arguable point is that Game Pass PC still exists and really is the worst deal out of all 4.

Hope this helps people understand and lets you all sift through the echo chamber that is the current discourse.

 

[nobitakun]

Wow, another thread regarding Xbox Game Pass opinion because of the price increase. I wonder how many more we will have lol.

The partner of a friend is using PC Game Pass and cancelling it before 2 weeks every month and Microsoft refunds her full price. She waits for the next month and does the same.

If anyone is not agree with its price, might try this lol.

 

[Tortuga]

Seems like xbox on a speedrun to kill itself

 

[sneakyguts]

they are digging their own grave

 

[qw90700]

Wow, another thread regarding Xbox Game Pass opinion because of the price increase. I wonder how many more we will have lol.

The partner of a friend is using PC Game Pass and cancelling it before 2 weeks every month and Microsoft refunds her full price. She waits for the next month and does the same.

If anyone is not agree with its price, might try this lol.

Microsoft believes Gamepass logic is future of everything therefore they invest on it no matter what it takes so it may explain why they intentionally let customers to scam them lol. Same "naive" logic as Epic on how they are stubborn on finding games to giveaway every week for popularity of their useless platform lol.

 

[Dany28]

Well, as always Microsoft seems to be sending Xbox to suicide but I am also sure that there are enough people in the world who pay these prices. It's nothing special Playstation will surely raise its prices again soon and yes it goes on like this until it doesn't work anymore.

 

[Tonberry]

Now as I see it personally, I've been in the ecosystem long enough that I can comfortably say that I can downgrade to Essential without losing much of anything.

I kind of agree.