• lustyargonian@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    From the markers of Xbox, Xbox One and Xbox Series, get the best deal of gaming with GamePass Core, GamePass Console, GamePass PC and GamePass Ultimate!

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    1 year ago

    Yeah, for $1 (between 9.99 and 10.99) this is just a price decoy / asymmetric dominance exercise.

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    Core will go away (or at least deprioritized from a marketing perspective) once they’ve successfully transitioned everyone off GfG.

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    1 year ago

    Games with Gold literally gave you ownership of a game. This is a subscription that gives you access to games. That’s more than a semantic difference and is a trend we have to be wary of.

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      1 year ago

      Games with Gold literally gave you ownership of a game.

      Did they? I was under the impression that the games you collect with Gold won’t start if your subscription runs out similar to PS+.

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      1 year ago

      No longer an xbox user but for what one would pay in a year on this it would be cheaper to just pick them up in the steam sales over time.

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      1 year ago

      Enshittification of Xbox Live was day one of launch, dude. Online used to be free, nobody charged for it until Xbox did.

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        1 year ago

        Look we’re not going to have this argument, it’s been had a billion times on the internet. I’m a PC guy, paying for online is dumb. But a lot of people do and the service they get from it is going to be getting worse and more expensive in the future.

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    1 year ago

    Personally I’m fine with this. It would be nice to get a refresh more often than “2 to 3 times a year” though…