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InhumaneRaider
01/22/21 11:16:04 PM
#101:


I knew Gamepass was too good to be true. This hike must be in order to keep funding Gamepass.

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SolidShadow3
01/22/21 11:18:16 PM
#102:


Glad I joined the PC master race.

Fucking chodes

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CADE FOSTER
01/22/21 11:19:51 PM
#103:


might be because trash ass ms decided to pay 7.5 billion in cash for zenimax during a pandemic
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01/22/21 11:23:38 PM
#104:


Bio1590 posted...
This pretty much ruins the Series S lmao

why? @Bio1590
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Dark_SilverX
01/22/21 11:24:58 PM
#105:


Questionmarktarius posted...
Meanwhile, at Nintendo...
They are the company that doesn't need to raise anything.

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Flauros
01/22/21 11:28:25 PM
#106:


fohstick posted...
MS got away with charging a fee to play online in the first place, and they will get away with this
"Games with gold are so much better than PSN games! Totally worth it!"

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CADE FOSTER
01/22/21 11:29:02 PM
#108:


Flauros posted...
"Games with gold are so much better than PSN games! Totally worth it!"
lol
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Bio1590
01/22/21 11:31:54 PM
#109:


---Devin--- posted...


why? @Bio1590

This increases the cost for the type of people who only buy and play shit like CoD and FIFA and the other yearly sports games, which was one of the groups the Series S was supposed to targeted at.

Also on Playstation consoles, you don't need PS+ to play F2P games like Fortnite, Apex Legends, Warzone, etc online. On Xbox you do, so this just widens the gap between "Cost to play Fortnite on Xbox" and "Cost to play Fortnite on Playstation".
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TheBiggerWiggle
01/22/21 11:33:56 PM
#111:


This is such a laughably stupid move. Literally doubling the price without adding *anything* in the process.

Currently Gamepass is 180/year. As a savvy consumer I already have gamepass prepaid through late 2023 and only paid about 150 for it. I play on a One.

With all that said, this price hike basically assures me I will never buy a series X. I already figured that by the time I need to renew the price will have gone up, but the way theyre pricing gold now has my very concerned that within three years it wont be unreasonable to expect Game Pass to be like 250/year or even more. I simply dont have enough time to game like that to where a price that high would be worth it.

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Bio1590
01/22/21 11:34:30 PM
#112:


Anyways this also reeks of Microsoft announcing an absolutely unjustifiable price increase and then coming back and saying "Okay it's actually going to only be $7.50/month" which is actually what they wanted all along.
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CADE FOSTER
01/23/21 12:01:12 AM
#114:


Ms backtracked power to the players indeed
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Old NoiseTank
01/23/21 12:02:38 AM
#115:


https://twitter.com/aarongreenberg/status/1352841764718055425?s=20

we did it, reddit!

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Complete_Idi0t
01/23/21 12:03:05 AM
#116:


Howcome when bitcoin doubles its price everyone is happy but when xbox does it everyone is upset
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Darmik
01/23/21 12:03:09 AM
#117:


https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2021/01/22/update-on-xbox-live-gold-pricing/

Lmao already backtracked and finally also made F2P games no longer need a subscription. No idea what they were thinking. So damn stupid. Microsoft always finds a way to do something monumentally stupid every single generation.

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CADE FOSTER
01/23/21 12:04:10 AM
#118:


ms got rekted today so hard they had to stop putting f2p games behind there pay wall lol gamers win
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Darmik
01/23/21 12:07:52 AM
#119:


I wonder what the hell is happening behind the scenes at Microsoft. This was an incredibly quick turnaround. Makes me wonder who made the call to increase it and who made the call to tell that person "Look at the shitstorm you created! Fix this now!"

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DepreceV2
01/23/21 12:09:19 AM
#121:


Darmik posted...
I wonder what the hell is happening behind the scenes at Microsoft. This was an incredibly quick turnaround. Makes me wonder who made the call to increase it and who made the call to tell that person "Look at the shitstorm you created! Fix this now!"

Phil probably went at their neck for this after all the good will he has been building up

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Irony
01/23/21 12:09:42 AM
#122:


Old NoiseTank posted...
https://twitter.com/aarongreenberg/status/1352841764718055425?s=20

we did it, reddit!
I imagine the moment they announced this Phil Spencer got a brick through his window with a picture of dickbutt on it

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Bio1590
01/23/21 12:12:13 AM
#123:


Darmik posted...
I wonder what the hell is happening behind the scenes at Microsoft. This was an incredibly quick turnaround. Makes me wonder who made the call to increase it and who made the call to tell that person "Look at the shitstorm you created! Fix this now!"

I'm wondering if so many people already turned off auto-renew or something that it was blatantly obvious this was going to be a disaster.
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CADE FOSTER
01/23/21 12:14:00 AM
#125:


Who gets fired for this debacle?
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Irony
01/23/21 12:14:05 AM
#126:


Nintendo wouldn't reverse, they'd just tell everyone to go fuck themselves

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The-Apostle
01/23/21 12:14:09 AM
#127:


Lol imagine literally thinking this was a good idea that would in no way cause backlash.

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Darmik
01/23/21 12:14:44 AM
#128:


DepreceV2 posted...
Phil probably went at their neck for this after all the good will he has been building up

I like Phil but he likely made the call. It's possible he had some pressure to but surely the final decision was his.

But I can see the heads of 343i being so absolutely pissed about this. This would completely cut the legs off Halo Infinite going F2P. I can even see companies like Activision and Epic being pissed at it. They don't give a fuck about Game Pass.

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TendoDRM
01/23/21 12:16:24 AM
#129:


Fishstick posted...
Lol clearly they don't always do their best for us if this happened.

Hopefully Phil makes some heads roll.

Irony posted...
Nintendo wouldn't reverse, they'd just tell everyone to go fuck themselves

Nintendo fanboys wouldn't have complained in the first place. They'd just sit and take it.

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pfh1001
01/23/21 12:19:30 AM
#130:


Propane4Sale posted...
Wasn't Gamepass supposed to be the successor to XBL for games and multiplayer? Why the hell have both co-exist when you can have one grand service for that high a cost?


See, I was thinking this was what they were doing-- raising XBL so that more people will switch to GPU, which is a better deal if you're using it to play a bunch of games that you don't have to buy.

That does seem to be the way they've been moving their business model.
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Irony
01/23/21 12:22:26 AM
#131:


TendoDRM posted...
Lol clearly they don't always do their best for us if this happened.

Hopefully Phil makes some heads roll.

Nintendo fanboys wouldn't have complained in the first place. They'd just sit and take it.
Yes they would, it'd be like this though

https://youtu.be/6zJUc1VII50

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Sputnik1337
01/23/21 12:22:50 AM
#132:


Darmik posted...
This would completely cut the legs off Halo Infinite going F2P.
Thats probably a big part of why they were trying to do this in the first place. They dont get much money from the people who are only playing f2p games like Warzone and Fortnite so they figured they might as well get a bigger cut by upping their subscription.

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The-Apostle
01/23/21 12:23:23 AM
#133:


I imagine this is how it went down:

Microsoft: "Let's double our prices for Xbox Live Gold."
Xbox Customers: "Hulk SMASH"
Microsoft: "Nvm"

>_>

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CADE FOSTER
01/23/21 12:25:05 AM
#134:


M$ never learns build up good will then take a huge shit on that good will
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voldothegr8
01/23/21 12:31:03 AM
#135:


Bio1590 posted...
This pretty much ruins the Series S lmao

Not if you $hell out for Gamepass Ultimate
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harley2280
01/23/21 12:51:10 AM
#136:


This whole thing was a PR stunt. They weren't going to raise it at all. They just wanted to bring more attention to the live changes and what better way than making it seem like they listened to the fans.
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Sictis
01/23/21 5:04:49 AM
#138:


Lmao, what a joke

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BlingBling22947
01/23/21 5:10:08 AM
#139:


Damn thats crazy.

*PS5 beeps*

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harley2280
01/23/21 9:10:14 AM
#140:


ArianaGrandSlam posted...
harley2280 posted...
This whole thing was a PR stunt. They weren't going to raise it at all. They just wanted to bring more attention to the live changes and what better way than making it seem like they listened to the fans.

They shipped out new cards to retailers. This was not a PR stunt. This doesnt generate positive PR, because they still PLANNED to raise it in the first place.

They shipped out a few not the massive stacks like they normally do. They didn't plan on doing it. They just want you to think they did so they can say they listened to the fans.
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assassingriskel
01/23/21 9:48:06 AM
#141:


DepreceV2 posted...
Phil probably went at their neck for this after all the good will he has been building up
So he went at his own neck? How stupid are some gamers to think Phil Spencer is not another greedy suit are gamers really that gullible to think he gives a rats ass about you or doing right by the consumer?
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MacDaMurderer
01/23/21 10:13:29 AM
#142:


assassingriskel posted...
So he went at his own neck? How stupid are some gamers to think Phil Spencer is not another greedy suit are gamers really that gullible to think he gives a rats ass about you or doing right by the consumer?

Exactly. Phil signed off this move and signed off the walk back. Hes culpable in this anti consumer shit.

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silver_stoner
01/23/21 10:27:53 AM
#143:


Irony posted...
Nintendo wouldn't reverse, they'd just tell everyone to go fuck themselves


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Mr_Karate_II
01/23/21 2:17:34 PM
#144:


MacDaMurderer posted...
Exactly. Phil signed off this move and signed off the walk back. Hes culpable in this anti consumer shit.


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TheoryzC
01/23/21 2:20:48 PM
#145:


It's always funny when people are surprised when corporations try to make more money

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Bio1590
01/23/21 2:23:56 PM
#146:


harley2280 posted...


They shipped out a few not the massive stacks like they normally do. They didn't plan on doing it. They just want you to think they did so they can say they listened to the fans.

There is no company on the planet that would modify an existing physical product, get a bunch of the new ones made, and then ship them out to retailers with no intention to ever sell them.

E: Not to mention it looks like Best Buy Canada pulled their digital Gold codes off their website yesterday and only put them back up today
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PatrickMahomes
01/23/21 7:31:06 PM
#148:


holy shit

gamers rose up

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Mr_Karate_II
01/23/21 7:59:02 PM
#150:


Micro$oft manages to fuck up some how

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BlingBling22947
01/25/21 4:54:58 AM
#151:


Xbox seems hellbent on losing the console wars.

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Mr_Karate_II
01/25/21 9:46:50 AM
#152:


BlingBling22947 posted...
Xbox seems hellbent on losing the console wars.
They can't go one generation without doing something so fucking stupid.

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