Xbox Live Games With Gold games for February 2021 revealed, alongside monthly price increase

Gamepass is a meme that use Xchads only signed up for because you could get 3 years of it for a buck. Once my GPU runs out in 2022 if Xbox Live is still 120 dollars a year I'm making the switch to PS5.

 

People only have Xbox because they're already too far into the ecosystem.

Also because they have friends who have Xbox.

 

banjo kazooie is on game pass

 

Microsoft must be smoking super crack to come up with an idea like this.

 

Whoa, 120 for a permission to play online.

 

Which is why console-specific online paywalls are bullshit, as evidenced by Nintendo and, ironically enough, Microsoft.
Nintendo didn't force up a stupid monthly/annual paywall for the Wii, for the DS, for the 3DS, for the Wii U, or for the Switch's first year - which just shows just how bloody arbitrary the bloody paywall is, how it doesn't "improve online" at all, since the last three worked fine enough without needing it.
Microsoft also never constructed a paywall to use their OS's online functionality in relation to gaming, which could conceivably be done with games sold on their store. I wonder why they didn't, despite being the first to do so with the 360...oh yeah, because other storefronts don't do that, and would use the lack of a shitty paywall to snatch even more customers.

 

It isn't like there's been a great online game players of all skill levels can jump in and enjoy, even if they only play a few minutes a day, since... I dunno. Maybe Call of Duty 4.

 

We did it XCHADS! Free to play games are now free to play online (also prices are not changing)!
https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2021/01/22/update-on-xbox-live-gold-pricing/

 

not in Russia, so it's okay

 

This Gamepass/PS Plus crap is good for people who plow through games, but it's definitely not for me.

 

Oh, hey. They're doing a complete 180. Also, F2P games may no longer require Gold to play.

 

And last year people were saying that xbox online is going to be free. Lol!

 

Didn't even last a whole day

Xbox has quickly reversed course on the Xbox Live Gold price hike and announced free to play games will no longer require Gold. https://t.co/153s76q12n

— Geoff Keighley (@geoffkeighley) January 23, 2021

 

GOOD - we've already got that completely needless and disgusting price hike on PS5/Xbox Series games (from US$60 to $70), so raising Gold price would've been more salt on the wound.

We're not made out of money, morons; stop raising prices, especially during a goddamn pandemic!

 

I'm sure it was pretty much their plan - to bully people onto GamePass because getting Gold separately won't make sense by this point.

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It's a console that gives you the most bang for your buck, which is the primary appeal - hardware is cheaper than if you buy a PC, software is cheaper than if you buy PS.

 

They even had F2P behind a pay wall? smh Pay online was and will always be a dumb thing. At least without giving a free option.

 

Again I already have most of next month's games. Got Gears 5 for basically free as I bought the Gears 5 Xbox One X off eBay for $300 and the redemption card for all Gears games was unused. This was before MS reduced the price of One X to $300.