Ya when I first posted it I thought "is this a joke"? It was doubled wasn't it
@ndboarder ? Glad they listened to the people.
The yearly cost was doubled. The monthly sub price went up $1 or something minimal, but what they didn't point out was that the proposed change made a 6 month membership $59.99. Yes, that was still a deal compared to the Monthly payment, but $59.99 used to be for 12 months. So yeah, would've doubled for yearly subscribers - and it would've only been new subscribers, they said existing members would keep the old pricing. Either way, it was a terrible idea.
Just promote gamepass, it's a great value for people that want some game variety and includes Gold. Just keep doing what they are doing with the content that's on it and it will grow anyway. I look at gamepass as more or less free. Even at retail pricing a year is $180 for GamePass ultimate. That's the cost of 3 full games to have access to 100's of games. There are typically at least 3 games per year released by a MSFT studio that I want, and those are included immediately and forever in Gamepass, so for the cost of the 3 games, i get access to 100's more. If a person didn't care about the PC side and just had Xbox Gamepass, it's even a little cheaper.
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