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Xbox Game Pass is getting MAJOR changes, with a new tier without day one games, and a range of price increases (www.windowscentral.com)

submitted 4 months ago by simple@lemm.ee to c/games@lemmy.world

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We all knew it was coming. Game pass gets a price increase and a new more expensive tier for day 1 games.

I honestly can't imagine paying $20/month for it. PC game pass will still get day 1 games at $12/month (was $10 before this) but it's still not great value, and the trend of where this is going is so obvious that I wouldn't want to bother using it anyways.

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[-] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

I think people just expected them to wait until it had a larger subscriber base to make these changes. This seems like it will really kill growth.

[-] zaemz@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Larger?! Doesn't it already have like 30 million subscribers already? That seems pretty solid to me ha

[-] johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Does that include xbox gamepass core customers? Because that's basically an entirely different service, and it's also something you'd expect a very high adoption rate of among Xbox console owners, given the platform's historical emphasis on multiplayer games. There's also rather a lot of people who stacked many months of gamepass for quite cheap.

While the platform has certainly seen some success, it's hardly in a dominant position, so making moves that make the value proposition of the service look worse is surprising.