50% Game pass increase incoming!

Grouch said:
I still get good use out of Game Pass but I think I’ll have to be far more aggressive about unsubscribing when there’s nothing want to play
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yeh at the moment loads to play and wasnt really using it, i will let it build up games again that i want to play then subscribe to pc only for a month or 2 which will save me paying full price for games i would have otherwise bought :)
 
I just got a year from shopto too, worked out my total cost for GPU from June 2019 until it will now expire in Nov 2026 at £163. (it's come with a couple of consoles, but this probably doesn't include some Gold conversion in June 2019)
 
This is actually a blessing in disguise for me.

I’m sure like most of you, I get overwhelmed with choice when I can finally sit down and play some games and having access to such a huge library almost paralyses me into indecision.

I’m going to cancel and focus on my backlog and with the cost savings, I can get 1 game a month that I can actually sit down and complete.
 
Drizmod said:
I remember getting it for like £3 per month for 3 years via vpn buying 3 years xbox gold and upgrading to ultimate at no cost
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Wasn't even very long ago that you could still do that. Mine expires in July next year and was via such a deal. Still worked out quite expensive for me though, as I've ended up hardly using it anyway due to not wanting to get halfway through a game only for it to disappear from the service, along with not having much interest in Microsoft's own output.
 
The numbers Microsoft have released explain the price increase for gamepass

Gamepass profit is currently $500 million per year

black ops 6 lost $300 million profit due to gamepass

Ergo, Microsoft now wants $300 million more profit from gamepass, hence the 50% price hike

The massive gamepass price hike is to pay for the loss of profit for Call of Duty. What a ******** especially if you're a gamer who doesn't even play CoD
 
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Grim5 said:
The numbers Microsoft have released explain the price increase for gamepass

Gamepass profit is currently $500 million per year

black ops 6 lost $300 million profit due to gamepass

Ergo, Microsoft now wants $300 million more profit from gamepass, hence the 50% price hike

The massive gamepass price hike is to pay for the loss of profit for Call of Duty. What a ******** especially if you're a gamer who doesn't even play CoD
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It's their own stupid fault, offering day one games for a sub was always silly. If your new game is worth £50-£100, then charge that, and I'll make up my own mind on whether I want to pay for it. Game pass should have always just been a cheap sub and a way to make some extra revenue from their back catalogue.
 
They should not have put COD on game pass day 1 but after 1-3 months. Most people who want it would have purchased it by then.

Anyway. Going to be fun replying to people that say I am playing x game on game pass "for free" :cry:
 
It seems like Microsoft really are trying their best to kill themselves off at the moment!

Screwing over thousands of Windows 10 users who either don't have the hardware to support Win 11, or just don't want to install that buggy, unintuitive, ad-ridden storefront-masquerading-as-an-OS, and now this...

While I can see the appeal of game pass, I never got on with it, I didn't like how they manipulated the filesystem, basically locking you off out of part of your own drive, and I could never get any of the games to work as non-steam games, meaning no controller support over steam link.

Had a couple of free/£1 trials over the past few years, but ultimately I don't have the time to play enough games (at least not ones which actually work on there) to make it worthwhile anyway
 
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Dont agree with the $300 million lost revenue. Its going to assume everyone that played it would have bought it, I played the campaign, I enjoyed the campaign, I haven't played it since completing it. I haven't bought a CoD since Ghosts I just dont think they offer enough value and since they very rarely drop in price in sales then I just dont bother. If the price was 20 quid then I would buy it but will take years to get there and when it does not sure if I would. Well I know I wouldnt, the first black ops is currently 15 quid on steam and for a 15 year old game I would rather spend my money on something else.

Also $300 million at $70 a game is just under 4.2 million copies, at the time of release they said sales on PS5 and PC were up 60% from the last game. The figure just seems to have been pulled out of thin air and with the whole anti Microsoft/gamepass feelings at the moment people are just going with it.

There is a reason for the price rise but cod/activation isn't it. The goal was to get 100 million subscribers by 2030, it was profitable so why jack the price up now? They arent stupid they would have known what the outcome would be. Unless the focus now isn't day one games but getting people with phones and smart tvs to subscribe the essential package, wouldn't surprise me if we see a lot of phone/broadband contracts now start to include that. Could be the success of the games released on PS5 has made them realise selling games is better than subscription, when game pass started MS didnt have a great selection of first party games and you could argue game pass was the only reason to buy an Xbox, with next gen on horizon and with a better first party output than Sony maybe they think they can do better in console sales and make more money from games
 
Sub cancelled for me, kids or I do not play the Xbox games enough for it to be the most expensive sub in our house hold.
 
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