Submitted 3 months ago by CatZoomies@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/17448835
cross-posted from: 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.”
And games are gimped on gamepass. When palworld released I had to purchase it on steam anyway to be able to play with my buddies. Also patches are late. Very late. I will not be renewing.
Yeah Xbox game pass uses the Xbox version of the game which is sometimes different. Deep rock galactic on Xbox game pass won’t let you play with deep rock steam players and vice versa.
I think it’s a pretty good deal. As a dad who has limited amount of time to play, I’ve had an Xbox for 16 months and bought it with game pass.
In that time I’ve played > 50 games and played about 15 of them to the credits.
In that time I’ve not actually bought a game. At the new price of $20 is have paid $320 which is the cost of about 5 or 6 games, Maybe 10 or a 11 if I’d aimed for sales.
That doesn’t sound like a limited amount of time to play.
I know right. I get about an hour a day and was quite shocked as I just went back through my achievements to see how much I’d actually played in that time.
I mean console games are always more expensive. There’s always something amusing about getting about 20 good games for five bucks on PC. Also epic games is still trying to bribe us with free games.
Cool story, I’ll take the extra expense for not having to use the limited time I have to manage updates and driver issues.
I like that my console just works
That does sound like a pretty good deal. The thing is, it used to be a fantastic deal. And judging by the way they are acquiring multi billion studios and IPs left and right it’s clear as daylight that they want to monopolize the market and keep the subscription model for a long time, which means the deal will get ever worse. So yeah, this pricing change was definitely expected.
Didn’t mean to diminish your experience, sorry.
Yeah, I can see that and I do worry about how the ‘deal’ with over change and how frustrating it could be to have seen the deal diminish already
Or just do what I do. Sign up for game pass once in a blue moon when friend wants to play games. Cancel it after 1-2 months once friend eclipses into non gaming mode for a while. Dispute the charge on card and say MSFT didn’t cancel trial. Get money back every time. Rinse and repeat as needed.
Yay fraud
Gigantic corporations can get fucked for a few bucks here and there. Fuck em.
Regardless of how you feel about Game Pass, shouldn’t Microsoft (and the game’s publisher and dev) get paid for a game rental service you fully used and benefited from?
With my morals, that’s not something I could do. Definitely doesn’t sit right with me.
With your morals, I could wipe my ass. Who gives a shit if Microsoft loses a few bucks? Fuck them. It doesn’t hurt the game devs.
This is was inevitable. I have opposed the idea of game pass since inception, and I still do.
Chainweasel@lemmy.world 3 months ago
$16.99 was pretty steep for how much I used it, I just cancelled.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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.
Delusional@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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.
NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Cheap online codes are the way to do gamepass. I agree at 20 a month it’s not really a great deal anymore
Frozengyro@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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 from the start.
CatZoomies@lemmy.world 3 months ago
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.