The 50% price hike to $30 is a great time to leave Gamepass
Raising the price of a service by 50% without any value seems absolutely crazy to me. At the old price, $20 a month, or $240 per year, Gamepass Ultimate was pricey, but good value for what you got. It gave you access to Day 1 AAA games, but to be honest very few of those games have been exceptionally good over the last few years. Many were mediocre, to say the least. And the other games on there were generally games you could buy on sale at $10 or less.
So for me Gamepass Ultimate was a question of convenience. To always have something to play, while not feeling guilty of abandoning a game I didn’t like. I could always move on to another game, because there was always something ew to play. And I used Cloud gaming to, which worked really well for me. It wasn’t great for shooters, but strategy games and such worked perfectly on it when I was on the go or in bed.
Now, at $30, or $360 per year, the value isn’t there anymore. For that money you can get 6-7 new or fairly new AAA titles every year, to own, and a huge number of indie games. And the new Premium tier at $15 only includes games that are now regularly on sale for $10 or less, so $180 per year would give you 18 of those games, to own, forever.
I just realised I don’t play enough to justify $360 per year on games I don’t get to choose. So why stay?
I will now instead be pickier with the games I buy, buy them on sale, and be patient. I will play less games just to waste time, and do something productive instead. Maybe this was a sign of some type. It’s so easy to just keep paying for something that you don’t feel like you use enough, but that you also use just enough to keep paying.
So I’m glad Microsoft did this. Goodbye Gamepass. Hello World.
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Raising the price of a service by 50% without any value seems absolutely crazy to me. At the old price, $20 a month, or $240 per year, Gamepass Ultimate was pricey, but good value for what you got. It gave you access to Day 1 AAA games, but to be honest very few of those games have been exceptionally good over the last few years. Many were mediocre, to say the least. And the other games on there were generally games you could buy on sale at $10 or less.
So for me Gamepass Ultimate was a question of convenience. To always have something to play, while not feeling guilty of abandoning a game I didn’t like. I could always move on to another game, because there was always something ew to play. And I used Cloud gaming to, which worked really well for me. It wasn’t great for shooters, but strategy games and such worked perfectly on it when I was on the go or in bed.
Now, at $30, or $360 per year, the value isn’t there anymore. For that money you can get 6-7 new or fairly new AAA titles every year, to own, and a huge number of indie games. And the new Premium tier at $15 only includes games that are now regularly on sale for $10 or less, so $180 per year would give you 18 of those games, to own, forever.
I just realised I don’t play enough to justify $360 per year on games I don’t get to choose. So why stay?
I will now instead be pickier with the games I buy, buy them on sale, and be patient. I will play less games just to waste time, and do something productive instead. Maybe this was a sign of some type. It’s so easy to just keep paying for something that you don’t feel like you use enough, but that you also use just enough to keep paying.
So I’m glad Microsoft did this. Goodbye Gamepass. Hello World.
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