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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 53594

Microsoft Gaming has announced three upgraded Xbox Game Pass plansâ??Essential, Premium, and Ultimate. Essential will replace the existing Core plan, and Premium will replace the Standard plan, with neither seeing a price increase. The Ultimate plan has increased by 50 percent, from $19.99 per month to $29.99 per month

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Csimbi · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2025 12:58 am Post subject:

Yep, the usual MS strategy. Come in cheap, get the masses in and then raise the prices.

dajarag432 · Contributor Joined: 02 Oct 2025 Posts: 1

Sabot · Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2025 12:40 pm Post subject:

As it was never open to abuse. Duh.
The amount of games *never* bought because they could play them -nearly or to their entirety- over a weekend/week/month depending on your employment status. $60+ game(s) on steam all played -or enough to justify if they are worth $60+
This is why lack of demos -not a 2hr pushing buttons window on steam- are failures.
Generations grow up expecting instant sugar rush. No waiting, no thought needed. Click-play-bin.
Devs are the (idiot) ones losing out and M$ coins it in.

Seeing as you own fuck-all -digitally. Why wouldn’t you just jump in for a monthly pass etc to play all the games you wanted to but weren’t going to shell out 1000’s

Digital is the bane of the world. Dad puts on VR glasses and says to son: “this is all yours when I’ve gone”