Launch day access to first-party titles now restricted to $19.99/month “Ultimate” tier.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/17448834

Microsoft asks many Game Pass subscribers to pay more for less

“Launch day access to first-party titles now restricted to $19.99/month ‘Ultimate’ tier.”

    • CatZoomies@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      41·
      4 months ago

      I am so tired of streaming and Everything-as-a-Service.

      I miss Blockbuster and the 90s/early 00s. Granted I’m looking at it from a nostalgic perspective as I was a kid/teen, but it sure was nice and didn’t feel predatory. Maybe there wouldn’t have been rate hikes if it was Blockbuster vs Red Box, but in this era? Yeah Blockbuster would have enshittified.

      • helenslunch@feddit.nl
        2·
        4 months ago

        Did you never have cable TV? We paid $100+/mo for 150 channels of hot garbage. You had to watch whatever was on TV at the time, usually just jumping into the middle of it. And every channel was absolutely riddled with ads every 7 minutes or so.

        • CatZoomies@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          Oh yeah I had cable TV for a bit with some kind of bundle. The experience was terrible! But then again I wasn’t really a TV person, and still am not.

          I just buy discs of my favorite shows and watch them when I’m in the mood for a show. Only traditional tv thing I watch these days is sports.

  • inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world
    4·
    4 months ago

    I mean who didn’t see this coming?

    I mean I had it for the years with their ultimate upgrade for a dollar but since I’ve had it, price increases were already happening and their attempts to monopolize the industry weren’t going to pay for themselves.

    Just like movie streaming, it was nice while it lasted, bit is rather dark the seas and but from Steam of I like it or just be that patient game.

    I’m not playing their ‘bleed the customer dry’ game.