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I was one of those people. Yes I still have some remaining time left on my Gamepass Ultimate subscription, but I purchased a mid-level gaming pc and a bunch of Steam games. It’ll be cheaper in the long run for me.
I’ve pulled off the Xbox band-aid and even reverting the price hike won’t persuade me to go back. I’ve been a continuous subscriber since mid-360 days.
Welcome friend, even midlevel will open you to a world of gaming.
Remember the order of purchases should be GOG (DRM free games), then Steam, then shittier platforms.
Older games especially, things like the older fallout games you’ll be able to pick up for <$5 and play for 60+ hours
I would put Humble Bundle bundles at the top of the list.
Same and never going back. They had me since the OG Xbox. Microsoft is an absolute shit show of an anti-consumer company.
Bad news Microsoft, I didn’t just leave gamepass, I left windows.
Same, though I keep a defanged AtlasOS version on dual boot for the rare things that absolutely require that garbage.
That’s my plan. Just making sure everything works on my linux install. Once I’m happy with it I’ll wipe the drive and install AtlasOS for that random one off thing that doesn’t work.
The same thing happened to me. Gamepass was the last thing holding me to Windows. After the price hike I cancelled, and then had no good reasons left not to try Linux.
I stopped using Gameapass when I got a Steam Deck
Microsoft doesn’t want me to use their product so I won’t.
That’s why I stopped playing Minecraft, because they don’t want me to. (Bedrock with controller does not work on Linux)
33 minutes and nobody has offered an impractical yet potentiall workable solution(?) yet… maybe it really isn’t possible.
The change saw Game Pass Ultimate jump 50%, rising from $19.99 to $29.99 per month. PC Game Pass also increased from $11.99 to $16.49, marking nearly a 40% hike.
Yes! They actually heard me!
Usually I get pissed about these things and nobody cares.
One of the big issues MS, and many other, companies will have is that it doesn’t work out like the Goldilocks story.
“Okay. That price was too high. Let’s dial it back just a bit, and it’ll be juuust right. ……Why aren’t people coming back?”
People burned by high prices will find alternatives, and can very quickly settle with the transition issues of those alternatives. The same has been found on conveniences like potato chips.
Exactly. People hate change and when you force them to change they will almost never come back if they find a decent alternative
For me it was Spotify. Their radio mixes were far too repetitive and I got sick of hearing the same songs so I shopped around, and I found out Tidal offers higher quality streaming at a lower price. Extra bonus: Tidal’s radio mixes are far more diverse. Small caveat: not everything is on Tidal; some albums missing, some artists don’t publish to it because Spotify and iTunes are the forerunners with most tech manufacturers supporting them natively (such as the Spotify integration in Bose hardware), whereas Tidal maintains the audiophile niche (only integrated with Sonos and Bang & Olufsen I believe).
I really want to move to Tidal, cheaper and better quality audio. I just wish they’d implement smart speaker support as that’s the only blocker for my family.
Sure I can load up the app, play a song and select the speaker as a pkayback device, but for the rest of my house this is either too much effort compared to saying “play x”, or they’re minors without phones.
I agree, it would be nice.
Last I checked it’s a mess. When I had Nest Audio speakers, Google’s given reason for not integrating Tidal was Tidal’s lack of playback API. Meanwhile Music Assistant for Home Assistant is entirely capable of using Tidal API, or at least masquerades as a client. But yeah, the best solution for Tidal is using Sonos speakers and choosing music in either the Sonos app, or the Tidal app via casting, and the only voice support is through Amazon Alexa but I think only the USA has that add-on enabled.
Yup.
What grossly incompetent leadership.
When they hiked the price, I dropped from Ultimate to the minimum required for online multiplayer. I imagine that each month I put the difference in my Steam Machine fund (or some custom built PC running SteamOS).
Like thuy give a fuck, the real question is whether it improved profitability.
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I left after the first price hike.
Trust arrives on foot but leaves on horseback.
Good luck getting those millions of subscribers back again now that you showed your “we will fuck you any chance we get” cards.
The old price was too high for me. The raised one made me roll my eyes.
The only Microsoft service I was using was Game Pass. For me, it was never cheap… the price was fair for what they offered. But after they doubled it I cancelled immediately and never looked back. And I would not, even if they decided to drop the price back again to what it was. Because now I know it is unreliable, and they will raise the price again as soon as they feel comfortable.
Typical of MS though, so that didn’t surprise me at all. They just can’t keep a reliable and fair priced service for long. As soon as they believe they can fuck people up, they do.
But thankfully nowadays we have so many options, to whatever product Microsoft offers, that’s actually not as hard to get free of them as they might think.
