alienboyva Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 (edited) I'm not sure how many people here have XBL Gold, but Microsoft has now raised the price from $60 a year to $120 a year... This is extremely shitty of M$, especially since nothing seems to actually justify this price increase! We shouldn't have to pay to play games online on consoles anway (thanks MS), because on PC it's always been free, unless you're playing an MMO or something, I really hope MS reverses this decision after all the backlash, because I can see a lot of people dropping XBL after this. Also, I really hope this doesn't cause Sony and Nintendo to raise their price for online as well. Still, it makes me wonder what's going to happen with F2P games on XB? Doubling the price of XBL and still requiring it to play F2P games would be really shitty of MS, especially since Sony and Nintendo don't require an online sub to play F2P games. If MS continues to require XBL to play F2P games online, I can see a lot of devs not even bothering to put their games on XB, since it's kind of of a big F.U. to those devs. Anway... At least MS is letting people who already have a XBLG membership renew at their current $60 a year pice, but for how long though? Edited January 23, 2021 by alienboyva Doc Brown 1 Quote Link to comment
purple_beard Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 I agree with SW about what will Sony and Nintendo do.... I'm also pretty sure MS thought this price hike out so.... Quote Link to comment
Doc Brown Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 I hope that Sony and Nintendo don't follow suit. $60 is bad enough as it is. $120 is major league overkill and I hope it bites Microsoft in the butt. It's in the middle of a pandemic, and they have the gall to pull this absolutely scummy move. It comes down to nothing more than pure greed. alienboyva 1 Quote Link to comment
Ridley Prime Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 It's no doubt to get more people to get the Game Pass which on its own is great, but this is the wrong way to do it. Bad MS decisions have been reversed before after enough backlash & loss of support, so am hoping the same happens here (however unlikely), but still disappointing that it's comes to this when they were in good graces again for awhile. It also makes their Bethesda/Zenimax acquisition earlier feel even worse now in hindsight... alienboyva and Doc Brown 2 Quote Link to comment
ace Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 If you buy an Xbox Series X and keep it for 6 years with a paid subscription that adds up to 1220 US dollarydoos. You can build a monster gaming PC with a 3060 TI strapped into it for like $900. Doc Brown 1 Quote Link to comment
Doc Brown Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 Oh whaddya know. alienboyva 1 Quote Link to comment
Fuzzer1 Posted January 23, 2021 Share Posted January 23, 2021 14 hours ago, Doc Brown said: Oh whaddya know. +1 for common sense. Doc Brown and Link, the Hero of Dreams 2 Quote Link to comment
Link, the Hero of Dreams Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 -1 for Intelligence Doc Brown 1 Quote Link to comment
Ridley Prime Posted January 24, 2021 Share Posted January 24, 2021 This felt like them testing the waters, albeit a really weird way of doing so. I figured the price change wasn’t gonna stick though, but still maddening it was even proposed by someone over there to begin with. People aren’t gonna forget this too even as MS continues doing right like they otherwise had been. They’ll have shade thrown at them again for awhile because of January 22nd which could’ve been avoided. Not that I fully trust any of the big 3 (them, Sony, Nintendo) like that anyway, but I’m glad the competition pretty much keeps each other in check. MS would’ve been laughed at by everyone else had they stayed the course with this, as their stock went further down, etc. They’d still have Windows for PC gaming and stuff, but their console brand would’ve been effectively dead by that move. Doc Brown 1 Quote Link to comment
EH_STEVE Posted January 25, 2021 Share Posted January 25, 2021 I can't even renew at more than 3 month intervals now... haven't since the summer Quote Link to comment
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