Xbox: "Price Increases Are Never Fun For Anybody"
Meanwhile Xbox execs:
Canceled.
They're also upping the sub price for some home user office plans. Apparently it's milk the customer time at microsoft.
Part of the problem is that most of the people making these decisions have been seeing their incomes and net worth increase steadily over the past decade. They don't truly understand their subscriber base.
But they do understand "charge what the market will bear". It's all about short term profit.
Thanks for letting me know, I've been paying just for some spare OneDrive space but I think I'll cut it if they're raising the price
Sacrifice the future for a temporary revenue/profit go up
No, it will work out for them. They just made a 50% profit increase. I doubt if even 10% of subscribers cancel.
It worked for Netflix, Disney+, Hulu... People just need to stop buying shit, but they won't.
Look at that added value, tho
Never fun for anybody
Meanwhile, at Microsoft:
No, but, but, think of the shareholders! Nobody ever thinks about the shareholders! :(((
Infinite growth is impossible, so they switched to squeezing something until it breaks, then identifying the next thing to squeeze. Eventually, they run out of things to squeeze, and switch to squeezing the people directly.
It's fun for the people making more profit.
I remember when GamePass was first announced and everybody lauded Microsoft for being “pro-consumer” and outright cheered when they started buying up independent studios.
I remember being downvoted to oblivion for pointing out the very obvious 5 year plan for GP and the fact that it would go… exactly the way it’s currently going.
Raising the price of hardware twice since May and now raising the price of game pass by 50% is not something a company would do if they're interested in competing against Sony or Nintendo. Clearly Microsoft has thrown in the towel on XBOX. Only thing left for Microsoft to do is announce cancellation of next gen console altogether and do layoffs. I don't know when that will happen but it's inevitable at this point.
yup they'll go the route of Sega. The writing has been on the wall with the Xbox Division for awhile now that I'm honestly surprised they're still trying to "make it work".
Xbox was a weird one. I haven't used one since the 360 and honestly I couldn't even begin to tell you what the next console in the line was after the 360. was it the series x? was it the one? I dont' know. I mean after buying like 5 360s because of red ring or whatever why would I continue that idiocy?
Lol, but here's one anyway. - Microsoft
but we're trying to reinforce by adding more value to these plans as well."
Fortnite Crew and Ubisoft+ Classics
So if you don't play Fortnite and aren't interested in 15 different Assassin's Creed titles, fuck you I guess
Imagine, if you will, the possibility of NOT increasing prices 50% to give us the "additional value" of shit we don't want.
I was happy paying for games, but suddenly I'm extremely willing to get back into piracy. Fucking weird, right?
Especially for the companies who disappear because they were too greedy.
I'm trying to think of a single example and I'm struggling
EA just had to sell to avoid continuing their downward spiral
Thank you captain obvious?
They've made very clear that they're reducing functionality, dropping products including their gaming companies, and raising prices across the board to somehow come up with billions for AI. They no longer care about their customers or employees, only this holy grail quest for money that will evaporate. Dump Microsoft.
While they might or might not have reasons to raise prices, those people who cancelled their subscriptions definitively had their reason.
Is it fair to blame 343 Studios' incredibly, laughably incompetent handling of the Halo franchise for this? And by this I mean the obvious death of the Xbox as a gaming platform. Or, from a different perspective, could Halo have actually saved the Xbox if the games had been amazing, or even just good?
Except your CEO the boardroom and the shareholders
You're selling an underpowered console that spies on the home for 800usd. Stfu about the price being tough on the company
Where is Xbox $800?
There's a special edition for $730+tax so maybe they mean that.
But starts at $380, less for return.
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