"I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations

Definitely not alone. For the music I've rediscovered record stores. They're great ways to fill in the gaps of your music library while also discovering new music. I buy CDs and take them home now, happy to keep them on my shelf.

This is the way. The new quiet revolution where we dont buy the bullshit anymore.

I buy a physical copy

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You two sound great (would beer)

I canceled spoofy earlier this year and have been slowly building my library proper ever since. honestly I've always preferred direct downloading my music over streaming because I can access it all offline, I only started using Spotify when my sd card corrupted and I lost all my music on it. tbf it was all pirated cause I was a broke kid but now that I'm buying everything I'm making sure to have backups and physical CDs when I can get them so it never has to be a problem again!

and honestly it's been SO FUN looking up artists and albums, listening to songs Ive previously ignored or were part of like a collaboration and realizing I really like them. i even got the guts to email one of my favorite artists to inquire about songs he didn't have on his bandcamp (he sold the rights to em so he can't sell the songs 😔) and now I look forward to the monthly album I buy to bolster my collection.

Back in 2015 or so, I noticed some of the movies on Netflix that I wanted to rewatch disappeared. I caught on pretty early that this was going to be the case where all the good stuff cycles out, so I took to building a Blu-Ray collection. Now all of my favorites are quick and easy to get to.

At some point I’m planning on digitizing the whole collection because I know discs degrade, but I’ve been hesitant because I don’t want to cook my drive’s laser in the process.

Being able to do whatever you want with your physical media is so incredibly freeing. Seems like many born after the 90s don't seem to quite have a grasp on what that's like.

How are you liking navidrome? I’ve been using Jellyfin for everything, using the finamp app for music, and it’s been pretty good. I’ve heard good things about navidrome but I already had Jellyfin set up on my server so I just stuck with it for music too. I don’t have much music on there yet though so I’d consider moving over to navidrome if it was a considerable improvement. I did try to get it set up a few weeks back but couldn’t get it right away and got busy afterwards.

I agree with everything you're saying, however it's a bit much to claim anyone would ever be "locked in" can always just cancel the subscription lol

Well, mp3s are crap. I’m sure if they had built a collection around flacs, they wouldn’t feel this way.

Counterpoint:

Do you remember Xbox Live?

They most likely, and purposefully, relegate few assets to a cancellation page.

This post tells me you're not required to use Power Automate for work. It must be nice.

If you don't believe Microsoft can fail at the things they're supposed to be best at...lol ...you 12?

Theoretically, now that Microsoft owns half the AAA studios, you could expect Gamepass to have a lot of day 1 AAA games.

Unfortunately, they just bought all the studios and... ordered them to stop making games or something.

I'd cancel if I hadn't done it several years ago. Oh well.

At 5 euros a month it was a steal. It was an amazing value in the moment and games deflate quickly. Economic realities ended it. But that doesn't mean it was shit.

When was game pass ever $5? I always remember it being 10.

Unfortunately piracy doesn't help the people who need it here. Hard to pirate on an Xbox, and Xbox players aren't generally the type to just ditch the ecosystem where all of their game progress and friends are just to jump to a platform they have no experience or history with

Yeah. I lay for YouTube Premium. And it has already gone up. If it goes up any further though I may have to cancel. The whole family uses it though so cancelling it will affect more than just me. They aren’t tech savvy enough to avoid ads.

Now if YouTube blocks sharing a family account across houses (in my country) then they will make the decision really simple.

Yeah, I'm in a similar situation. Don't get a lot of game time and I've got a pretty large backlog of stuff I want to play. If I like the look of something I wishlist it and buy it on sale for less than £10.

I think the gamepass model is going to be struggling with economic factors - many of us are working more and have less playtime, and money is tighter.

I hope these XBox games can hang tough and kick Microsoft right in the dick.

Are you implying Bill Gates has a dick? I don't think he does. Maybe a soft micropenis.

I tried telling so many people that and their answer was always either so what, or no it wont. Well, here we are. If you own a thing the price doesn't go up

Unless its from GOG of course, because then you really do own your game

GOG. It’s not all games, but you can own some of them. Steam, in spite of the CEO that keeps it decent, started this lease under the guise of buying model.

That said, subs are much worse. If the Disney/Kimmel situation taught us anything, it’s that boycotts work.

Subs are costing most Americans, on average, $300/mo. (More Perfect Union covered it.). That’s a monthly grocery bill for 1-2, if you buy right and cook. Subs are part of the “squeeze” that siphons money to the top 1%.

i use gamepass as like a preview, if i really like a game ill just buy it (like south of midnight)

Paying extra just to have access to multiplayer is one of the core reasons I sold my 360 and haven't bought a console since. PS2 and latest PC are both golden!

It's still better for people overall if the parasites take larger sums from fewer willing idiots compared to them taking less each from more people, even if their bottom line is unaffected.

Cloud play allows local couch co-op without a second console/version of the game.

Back when it was under the price of 2 games a year it was a pretty good deal. Thinking of buying the next Halo and Forza? Get gamepass and save money, and have the opportunity to try a bunch of other stuff you wouldn't have played.

There's amazing games like Hades and Slay the Spire that I wouldn't have been interested enough in to purchase that are now among my favorites because Gamepass let me try them.

Honestly, I think the better route would be to keep it cheap but not include new releases. Let people access the back catalog affordably with games that aren't brining in much new revenue anyway. People will discover games and genres they otherwise would not have played, which will create new markets and boost ssales of new releases.

Here in Brazil (and problably most of the developing world as well), piracy used to be the standard way to get console games. People would buy unblocked consoles from street merchants and then buy pirated media from them, or download the games from pirate sites.

But with the newer xbox xs series, they made it so that piracy is impossible, and people got forced to buy games from microsoft. Since most people around here don't have much money to spend, game pass became an option to have a selection of games always at disposal for a reasonable price, so it became popular. Sadly, that's how microsoft expanded their business to the developing countries.

When a new game costs 60 bucks, just paying for a game pass and have access to a random library seems appealing. It's also a nice way to try and discover games I guess. I never used it.

It can probably make sense if you play a lot. You can try out a lot of different games without buyers remorse. I know steam has a good return policy but sometimes you just miss the return window.

Personally, I just wait a few years and buy everything in the steam sale for under 30% of original price.

They make sense if you play through enough titles. If you have a pass and only ever play one game, that's probably a bad idea.

Yeah, they used to constantly offer $1/month, I'd take that for a month and try a game I was interested in. I got value there, but I'd never pay more than that and certainly not on a recurring basis.

For about a year I could cancel my 1€ subscription and renew it every other month 6€ for half a year was worth it. But the app lacks so much no way I'm paying more

Literally had the convo with someone to get it Saturday, glad I didn't jump on it

Building a PC that can compete with a console costs like 4x as much as a console. A modern graphics card alone costs more than a console

Every time I ask someone to show me the mythical build that performs as well as a console does while costing less, they either disengage because they realize it's impossible, or they come back with a $600 build that performs just about as well as an Xbox One