The page to cancel your Xbox Game Pass subscription on Microsoft's website was overwhelmed shortly after today's price hike went live.

I cancelled too! I really wanna see what excuse Microsoft will pull out to walk back the changes.

Hit 'em where it hurts, people.

  • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
    281·
    23 days ago

    Honestly, I’ve kinda gone back to buying physical media.

    I bought DK Bananza on cart, and guess what? After I finished it, I gave it to my brother. Imagine that! Sharing a game you own? Madness.

    I’m eager to pick up Ghost of Yotei from the store this afternoon, as well.

      • syreus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        22 days ago

        Family Share works really well in my experience. It worked better when I could change the users more frequently but this model is still works pretty well.

        • prettybunnys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          3·
          22 days ago

          Is there a way to share a single game and use your library still?

          I share my library with my son and when he’s using a game my whole library is unavailable to me, unless something has changed (or I’m old and ignorant … also likely)

      • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
        31·
        22 days ago

        That’s why I don’t really use Steam to buy games anymore, too.

        At least maybe use GoG if possible to get a DRM free version.

    • zanyllama52@infosec.pubEnglish
      3·
      23 days ago

      I’ve never gone away from buying physical media, but I could understand exactly why you would want to return to it.

      • garretble@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        23 days ago

        For me, when the Switch 1 came out it was just nice to have everything on the device and you never had to do the most heinous thing of taking a moment to put a cart into the device.

        But more and more I buy one to two games a time and focus on those, so that issue is largely not a thing any more.

        • ilinamorato@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          23 days ago

          For me, with the Switch 1, I was worried about wanting to play a game but oh no it’s back at home. Happened a bunch of times with my 3DS.

          But then I bought a case that had card slots in it, and that concern wasn’t much of a concern anymore. Then the pandemic happened, and I never really left home anyway, which meant it mattered even less. So now I have a few digital games that are super annoying to share.

    • sadfitzy@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      13·
      22 days ago

      You never needed physical media in order to share games with others.

      You still don’t, and you can share with more people digitally.