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.

 

[Yousef Yousef]

The 3 tier system is still incredibly obnoxious to keep up with. It used to be so simple but now they’ve segregated everything because they have nothing else to offer.

What sucks is that they’ll also sell those weird uncharted clones at $70 hoping you’ll get game pass to play them for 20 or 30 on GP to access them for a month then never again.

 

[Tortuga]

You will pay 30$ own nothing and be happy :)

 

[Sorion]

I think Gamepass is in part the reason why xbox console sales have been degrading so much, why would you want an xbox if you can get the gamepass instead? at 33 million almost 5 years after their release, I highly doubt they'll catch up with the xbox one, which was in itself a controversial launch

 

[Matricks]

I had a good and cheapest time with 4yrs ago for 4/5yrs on XboxOneX.
Almost for free, 3 free month, free months trails, $1 or $2 per month promotions till my cheap old gamepass convert into months of ultimate till end 2021 is finale over and out.

 

[nobitakun]

You will pay 30$ own nothing and be happy :)

Exactly. This service is for people who wants to pay and don't think about anything. They don't want physical stuff at home, because the only thing they are going to collect is dust. Property is not something they want for non essential things in life, they pay 30€ for 30 day of enjoyment, and they are happy because when they die every single physical thing they have will be a nuissance.

We don't need to share that way of living, just understand it :)

 

[stormesp]

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

Not really true, Gamepass Premium is just the console standard + xcloud and the same games available on PC. Gamepass premium does NOT include day 1 releases, they say most games, outside of call of duty, will be available in 1 years after their release.

To have day 1 releases you need to pay an increased 16$ a month for ONLY game pass PC, or 30$ for Ultimate which includes PC and Console, XCloud and everything day 1.

 

[Ikagura Ikagura]

I'd rather see more PC ports of Xbox games.

 

[Tortuga]

I'd rather see more PC ports of Xbox games.

How about Gears 1 remaster for third time?

 

[D-Tyrant]

a Netflix style subscription model for games will never work, while it may seem nice on the surface, not a lot of people are willing to hedge their bets on a service that doesn't guarantee the games on there will stay there, and with no long-term off-line capabilities. hell that's even assuming companies will be willing to put their games there as it will eat into their sales, since all it will do is entice people to take the cheaper option rather than pay full price.

to me i knew it was a service that wouldn't appeal to me and thankfully stayed away, now the people who got invested in it are gonna eat the costs of Microsoft's bad decisions, whether they like it or not.

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How about Gears 1 remaster for third time?

i don't see Microsoft re-releasing the Gears of War OG trilogy, mainly because if they did all it will do is show how truly incompetent they've become, especially given how poorly Gears 4 and 5 were received by players, and how the Halo series was butchered to hell after its OG trilogy. i finished 4 co-op and tried to play 5(i stopped after like 2 hrs and couldn't finish it) and watched a story synopsis of the game, and man I'm glad i quit it early. i guarantee you if they did release a remastered version of the OG trilogy it would sell really well and even get more ppl into Gears, but these are the sort of people who would let their ego keep them from an easy win, simply because they know Gears 4/5 will be compared to 1/2/3 and see how bad Microsoft got at making their 1st party games.

 

[Dodgykebaab]

I was right about everything I said two years ago about Gamepass.

At the time I was told it was napkin maths, that I had no idea about business - but it turns out I predicted the future with a 100% accuracy rate!