- cross-posted to:
- games@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- games@lemmy.world
Starting today, Game Pass Ultimate drops from $29.99 to $22.99 a month. PC Game Pass will also drop from $16.49 to $13.99 a month. Prices may vary by region.
Beginning this year, future Call of Duty titles won’t join Game Pass Ultimate or PC Game Pass at launch. New Call of Duty games will be added to Game Pass Ultimate and PC Game Pass during the following holiday season (about a year later), while existing Call of Duty titles already in the library will continue to be available.
Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers will continue to have access to hundreds of games on Xbox console and PC including current Call of Duty titles, in-game benefits, online console multiplayer, and major day one releases. You can find more details on Game Pass Ultimate, Game Pass Premium, Game Pass Essential, and PC Game Pass plans here, and manage your account here.
Our players cover a wide breadth of geographies, preferences, and tastes, so while there isn’t a single model that’s best for everyone, this change responds to a lot of feedback we’ve gotten so far. We’ll continue to listen and learn.
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Hello, we fucked up, please resubscribe, we promise we won’t try to fuck with you again (for at least a few months).
It’s a massive drop (7 Dollars less) for Ultimate subscribers for sure, but this is still not cheap in my books. PC subscribers have less of a drop (2.5 Dollars), but it wasn’t that expensive compared to Ultimate to begin with. And Call of Duty games won’t be added to Ultimate and PC for an entire year. That’s a lot.
Not that I care about cod particularly, but you’re not kidding. They’re yearly releases so that basically means you don’t get to play at all until the player base moves to the next one.
It’s not that bad, there’s usually more than enough of a player base to still easily find games. Honestly I think the newer CoD games are better a year after release. During it’s release schedule, they try really hard to sell the battle pass so the weapons you get from going through the battle pass tends to be overpowered and then balanced after the end of the season.
That makes a lot of sense. I’m sure this latest duo was especially true for since 6 was so much better than 7.
Unless the cost of buying an equivalent version of CoD is more than $82 you can just do that and still save money.
im still playing ww2
CoD hasn’t been worth playing in at least 10 years even if it is free.
I couldn’t care less about this. I made the complete switch to Linux a few days ago. Microslop butchered the Xbox brand so bad that I don’t even want to play their games nor pay for their shitty pass anymore
I can’t help but wonder if this was a correction, or intentional sleight of hand.
If the last change never happened, and they just said the price goes up by $3 and COD is no longer included, would anyone be happy about that?
Same situation, but now we’re seeing it as a $7 price drop with no COD.
I might switch back to ultimate again, but not until there’s something in premium Gamepass that Im really interested in.
According to some analysts, it’s because Call of Duty lost $300M in sales after being added to Game Pass. They raised the price to get that money back, people started unsubbing, and now they’re backtracking on putting CoD on game pass as a launch title (so they’re reducing the cost again).
That was always a weird move to me. CoD and GP are like fundamentally opposed to eachother in how theyre trying to keep customers.
CoD is the game. When you meet a casual and they say “yeah i play xbox” they mean “I play call of duty”. They cement this by keeping the file size fucking massive so you cant fit other games. Only reason to have cod on gamepass is to trick fans into thinking “so I only have to pay a little a month and I get cod for free?” When youre milking them for more than it would cost.
Jacking up the price to justify cods existence is possibly the dumbest move available.
Can they release an Xbox live subscription with no games? $120 a year for online is ridiculous
That was their plan all along. They tried to double the price of Gold and received a huge backlash, so they walked the change back, and then merged Gold with GamePass to raise the price again without people noticing. I don’t think there’s a chance of them going back to the old price point.
How much was it before it was $29.99 a month? 🤔
Looks like it was $19.99 a month until they raised it to $29.99 6 months ago.
Still an extra $3 a month though!
Bailing water out of the Titanic.
Still too expensive. I am glad to see some companies facing pains for their relentless price gouging.
I was hoping they leave it at 30$ so that more people see the model for unsustainable bullshit that it is and it finally dies. They bought it a lifeline, but in the end it’s still bad for the end user, bad for devs, and seeing as how they also pulled CoD it was even bad for microsoft.
Too little too late.
