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Microsoft asks many Game Pass subscribers to pay more for less

arstechnica.com Microsoft asks many Game Pass subscribers to pay more for less

Launch day access to first-party titles now restricted to $19.99/month "Ultimate" tier.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17448835

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17448834
Microsoft asks many Game Pass subscribers to pay more for less
"Launch day access to first-party titles now restricted to $19.99/month 'Ultimate' tier."

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Microsoft asks many Game Pass subscribers to pay more for less

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$16.99 was pretty steep for how much I used it, I just cancelled.
- The problem with these things is that it usually works out being a net positive for the company. Like when Netflix stopped allowing households to share passwords. I cancelled, and hoped that drives of other people would cancel too. But Netflix did their research just like any other company would, and they ended up getting more subscribers and more money because of it. The era of good deals is over. The era of squeezing customers for everything they're worth is here. There is no more competition, and thus no reason for them to offer good deals.
  
  Yeah I pirated a lot when I was younger, then things became more easily available and cheaper so I started buying all my games and movies again. And now they're going in a backwards direction and making things sorta expensive again and there are a dozen different subscription services so now I'm back to pirating again.
  
  Same here man. We were up to about $70 per month for streaming services, which was right back to cable TV type of shit. When Netflix pulled the password stunt that pushed us over the edge and we've been real-debrid ever since.
- Cheap online codes are the way to do gamepass. I agree at 20 a month it’s not really a great deal anymore
  
  Yea, if you look at your purchases you probably spend less than 20/month on average for games. Plus many of the "big" games aren't on game pass, so you are paying even more.
  
  I’ve done the math; for what I currently pay if I play two full price games on gamepass a year I come out ahead. Now that’s only because codes are cheap on cdkeys and eneba but once that changes I’ll jump ship
  
  That also assumes you benefit from playing them day one.
  There are plenty of games that I would play day one if it's available. But if not, then I would happily wait and buy it when it's cheaper. Also, the ownership adds to the value if I'm not keeping it all the time.
  So if I would have waited until the game is $40, I'm saving $40 max. But also, I'll still have it 2 years from now when it's worth $25, assuming I want to play it again. So it maybe saved me $15, depending how you look at it.
- Agreed. I guess it’s that value proposition: if you have the time to play, and you play their whole catalog and have a blast, that’s $16.99 well spent.
  As for me I love owning my games (where possible due to licensing and DRM), so the value isn’t there. But my spouse and I certainly took advantage of the heavy discounts they offered like the $1 month. I planned it so that I could try as many games as I could during that period and ended up buying them on GOG or Steam if I really loved them.
  If their whole catalog is refreshed and they have another heavily discounted offer for 1 month, I’ll pick up a month just to try those games. But I definitely would never be a long term customer, I’d be a parasite loss-leader lol.

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