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I got rid of my Xbox because steam felt better and Xbox still doesn't have VR
The price hike didn't really affect me tbh
this post was submitted on 10 Jun 2026
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If they lost less than a third of the total, they're making a lot of money for the short term.
In the long term, they're fucking themselves into obscurity.
We can hope but VMware showed that extreme price hikes work. I thought VMware would collapse but they're more profitable than ever.
Whales, man.
There's a big difference between what a corporation will pay for and cost absorb and some individual paying for an entertainment service is. A shrinking user base that largely relies on "my friends use it, so I have it too" can swing a big pendulum.
As Dunkey once said, Microsoft is run by Ants.
So I ditched it because I didn’t want to pay for it. Then I find out you have to have it to play any games online. “But it supports the servers!”.
Then please explain to me, why can I use the same copy of FH6 on either my PC or Xbox, but yet when I play it on tje PC, I have full access to online play? No additional charge or GamePass required.
It's been this way since the original Xbox, idk why you'd buy into their shitty ecosystem when they've been forcing people to pay a second internet bill to play online content for decades at this point.
Now Microsoft......what did we learn today?
Please drink verification can!
Basic economics? Drop your low-value customers for high-value customers, make more money for less support and infrastructure (and accounting and HR and payroll and...) This is Business 101. Two things kick my ass: 1) No one seems to get this thing. 2) Everyone acts like these leaching services are a necessity.
Drop them and move on! Choose an entertainment ecosystem that fucked you? Lesson learned. Move on. Still want it? Steal what you can. I have no idea what's on broadcast, cable or subscription TV. My home-rolled VPN is $6/mo., done.
Need to destroy the competition so that users don't have other options and must accept whatever prices we dictate.
No other options, must pay. :( The old timers had a word for how to fight such bullshit. Sounded like "shrike"? Something like that? Perhaps, "Buoy snot"? Anyway, they had some sort of spell by which they refused to give evil corporations their money. No idea how that worked, lost knowledge. (Queue 100 comments about Game Pass being a requirement for modern life, like electricity and water.)
Nothing...
We’ve gotta increase the price again to make up for those customers
Except they decreased it recently.
But not back down to the previous price.
It's okay for them as ong as the userbase loss is less than that 50%.
Less than 33%, you'd need a 100% price increase to make up for losing half
Lobby the gov insisting all citizens must sign up and have a mandated subscription...before further 50% updates.
Ah the the insurance model
All they need to do is get one Elon to sign up to their $5 billion SuperAlpha WinnersOnlyPlusPassPlan and they’re golden.
I bet he would love a feature where copilot plays the games for him while he streams
The path of exile react videos that went up after he streamed his 100% boosted charector were great. The video just gets more and more wacky.
I don't even play the game, but watching pro level players absolutely lose their shit while he casually ignored the rarest crafting drops because he had no idea what they were was hilarious.
I dropped out based on the price hike. We just weren’t getting the value. I bought a couple full evergreen games that I get back to often and then just lived without the rest. Also cancelled Netflix and a couple of other subscriptions. Just too much money to spend and enough time.
Not surprising given they‘ve lowered the price again shortly after.