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"I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations (thegamepost.com)

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Microsoft just raised the price of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate to $29.99/month, and fans aren’t happy. Many are canceling, some are calling for a boycott, and even Microsoft’s website is struggling to keep up.

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[–] ulu_mulu@lemmy.zip 14 points 2 days ago (12 children)

Maybe I'm too old, but I never understood the appeal of game passes, you can't play hundreds of games at the same time unless you have nothing else to do in your life, and most of them are garbage anyway.

Only reasonable subscription model to me is MMOs, because those require a complex infrastructure to run, but non-MMO games? No thank you, I'll just turn to indies that still sell games without any live-service bullshit.

[–] hayvan@feddit.nl 3 points 2 days ago

When a new game costs 60 bucks, just paying for a game pass and have access to a random library seems appealing. It's also a nice way to try and discover games I guess. I never used it.

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